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.
Remembering is not enough take Mr Jowels to court and procecute him!
Hardship?
Oh that's right. I remember Ted's hard-luck growing up:
1- When he was seven, his personal nanny went on strike for a week.
2- Because he was a Kennedy, he was forced to pay top dollar for others to take his tests at Harvard.
I'm sure there a lot more stories, but these deserve their own chapters in Profiles In Courage.
Good.
We may need to start a legal defense fund for him.
As ever, the liberal motto stands:
Free speech for me, not for thee.
If Karl Rove or Dick Cheney were speaking and someone said something bad about them, would that person be "wondering what was going to happen to him." I doubt it. They would be lauded and congratulated.
Hypocrites.
VERY funny cartoon.
He must be one of those filthy colonial rabble.
More a Caligula than a Caesar.
...no autopsy was ever performed...and...
Give that young man a medal! "Atta Boy"!
Open-minds lead to open-bottoms and brainlessness. Without discrimination there can be no discretion of good from evil - the principled difference between the right and the left.
I hope he gets represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, or FIRE or somebody.
Whenever the fascist leftists have their long knives out, it's not gonna be pretty.
Trost is now on my list of heros.
I read a book, written by one of the Chappaquidick LEO's that provided a strong case that another member of the clan was actually driving. It even explained why Ted was willing to take the heat. I don't remember the name but it was a good read.
"...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."
Hardship??!!? Tragedies maybe, but hardship??
I've always thought there was more to this accident than what we've been told...I've never seen much about this in print or spoken of in the media, but were there suspicions that T.K. was having an affair with Mary Jo K. and that she may have been pregnant, and that he deliberately left her to drown to get rid of his "problem." If I'm way off-base here, please set me straight.
I have hope for your generation. My generation screwed up royally during the 60's and 70's leading this country to an influx of sweeping liberalism, the beginning of moral decline, not to mention horrid mistreatment of our military and the deaths of millions in VietNam and worldwide.
We certainly didn't have anything but skulls of mush either.
I will agree that I worry your generation hasn't had the benefit of instruction on American exceptionalism (as Rush would say) through the public school system that mine did.
But keep talking to your peers. More of what you say may be sinking in than you realise.
As for this kid in MA....I'm surprised Kennedy hasn't had him knee-capped.
It's only "embarassing" to the university if the students offend other than conservatives.
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