Posted on 02/23/2006 12:13:15 AM PST by CrawDaddyCA
A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success.
"Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student center Tuesday morning.
Just as Kennedy began speaking, Trost was walking out of the room when he shouted, "Remember Chappaquiddick!"
"Most of the crowd gasped," Trost said. "Then I walked out of the student center."
The student says a campus police officer went outside and stopped him. He also saw some state troopers go outside, the type who accompany Kennedy around the state to provide security.
Trost says the cop took down his information and told him he would be hearing from school officials about disciplinary action. A spokesman with the campus police verified the incident but stressed that Trost was not arrested.
The student said one of his teachers confronted him after a class about the Chappaquiddick issue.
"One of my teachers called me ignorant and told me this was an embarrassment to the school," Trost told WND. "She said to me, 'Can't you forgive him after all these years?' And I said, 'No, he killed somebody.'
"If it had been me or any other person, we'd be in jail," Trost says he told his instructor.
Referring to his two-word shout, Trost said, "I did it because I know about Kennedy's past. I know what happened at Chappaquiddick.
"I wanted to send a message to him that my generation still knows about it. We haven't forgotten about it."
Trost said he was satisfied to know that students on campus were talking about the Chappaquiddick incident later in the day – some of whom, in fact, were not familiar with it.
In 1969, Kennedy was driving a car that went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed after the car landed upside down in the water. No autopsy was ever performed to determine her exact cause of death.
At the time, Kennedy claimed he tried several times to swim down to reach Kopechne to no avail. He came under fire for not reporting the incident to authorities until the next morning. In the interim he reportedly made an effort to call a family legal adviser.
"I haven't yet found out what's going to happen to me," Trost said, referring to the warning from campus police.
You seem very naieve
It would be great if we could show our support for him in some way. If no one supports him, he may not feel he can speak out about the truth in the future.
Let's ask MaryJo how she feels about this, oh, that's right, we can't because SHE'S STILL DEAD.
Mary Jo Kopechne is unavailable for comment.
The Kennedy's didn't have much respect for women did they, John and Robert screwing around on their wives, Ted's involvement in Mary Joe's death and the younger Kennedys being charged with rape. Nice family.
"Can't you forgive him after all these years?'"
The only person who can forgive Kennedy is Mary Jo Kopechne and she cannot because she is dead.
I do not believe it was an accident. I believe that Kennedy deliberately set out to kill her.
bump for later
However... knowing the POS to which you directed your exquisite two words... a load of stink is probably headed your way. This family is above the law in New England and have destroyed bigger... for less.
Good for him! The establishment, including Kennedy, are counting on the young folk being ignorant. This young man wasn't, so the teacher called him ignorant anyway.
freedom of speech only applies to libs.....conservatives are not really citizens, ya know (sarcasm on)
I like this guy!
Ever wondered what would happen if some Joe Blow had driven off a bridge with a Kennedy woman in the car and waited till the next day to report it?
Yeah, but what else would you yell to Ted Kennedy,
"Remember the Alamo"?
There was a recent case in Connecticut, Greenwich I think, of some Hispanic guy who put his car into a pond, where his girlfriend drowned and he got three years in prison. Does anyone have a link to this article or more info on the case?
I can't find any more references to it on the web, they all seem to have disappeared.
Sucks to not be a Senator when you drown your pregnant girlfriend.
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- Senator Ted Kennedy, accompanied by his wife Joan, flew aboard a private, family-owned DC-3 to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne. - Although Kennedy had shown no apparent discomfort the day after the accident, and despite the fact that a battery of tests had found no physical evidence of a neck injury, the Senator arrived at the funeral wearing a cervical collar. |
Kennedy, you moron, you and the college would've been far better off just letting the guy have his say and ignoring it. But, oh no, you just had to get some of your own back for being dissed. You're such a loser. And so are your sycophants.
Speaking of medals,I believe there should be a Mary Jo Kopechne National Memorial.
If not for the obvious cover-up of her murder The Swimmer would probably have run for President and won in 1976.
The history of the past 30 years could have been much worse.
Chappaquiddick deprived the murderer of his entitlement,the White House, and explains the hatred that consumes this puke.
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