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.
These Lefty can't take it they can crash a funeral or what ever and lefty students can embaress their scholl all they want with falsthoods, don't let someone mention a fact!
WE ARE ALREADY IN FUEDALISM as we watch this great nation being dismantled
That's what I was thinking--broke his back in a plane crash.
This picture shouldn't be posted on Chappaquiddick threads. It's misleading and makes FR look foolish.
Doc, this wouldn't be your son, would it? :-p
I would think the Chappaquiddick incident would be on the media's front burner these days because Teddy didn't have a press conference the minute he got home, nor did he call authorities until twelve or so hours later. He notified his lawyes, but not the authorities.
Maybe we could make him an honorary member of the FR.
""Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"
Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
If anyone should get in trouble it is the College and the Police who gave him a warning. The earnest young man should get an award and honors!
You have a great generation! The kids are smart, caring and patriotic. I work with them every week. Better than mine, in many ways.
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.
Dont forget they lobotomised their sister because she liked to have sex.
LOL! Good photoshoppin'!
"No autopsy was ever performed to determine her exact cause of death."
She was pregnant with Ted Kennedy's baby.
teddy should be confronted with the truth. thouhgh i doubt it bothers him. i give this kid credit. and i think he ought to start making "Remember Chappaquiddick!" tee shirts. id buy one and wear it.
This student's achievement is the envy of every "right" minded witness to the elite Teddy Bare. What a disgusting person! His constituents are simply pitiful.
Oh wow! Look! There on your keyboard! In the lower left and lower right corners! There are keys labeled Shift! Mine even have pretty little arrows on them!
''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.''
Now just who is ignorant?
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