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.
It's the reason why Kennedy is so pro-abortion. Abortion is much cheaper than him having to keep replacing cars.
It's from a another thread and you miss the satire involved.
And don't forget, most of those tragedies were self-inflicted. It is like asking us to feel sorry for the Menendez brothers because they lost their parents.
AWESOME! I will absolutely contribute to his defense fund!
Caligula WAS a Caesar. Ted Kennedy is a Sleazer.
ROTFLMAO! That would make a great tagline or bumper sticker!
I might consider forgiving him after all these years, if he had served 30 or 35 years in prison, not sitting in a US Senate seat the entire time.
The teacher must not know history like this fellow does, or could care less as she must be a DUmmie.
That was the first thing I thought of! The student is a born FReeper!
He was in a plane crash IIRC. The back brace had nothing to do with the manslaughter.
I bet Uncle Teddy thought he got off scot-free
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I think he, and his sycophants, believe that he has paid dearly - because he was on track to the presidency and this "unfortunate event" derailed him.
He and they "feel" that he is a victim! (As all good dems must feel about something or other.)
I hope this young hero fights any disciplinary action by the school, in court. I'd donate to a fund to help see this first ammendment case taken all the way to SCOTUS. That would mean the LSM could not ignore the story.
Gee .. does the school also involve the police and give disciplinary action for students who yell things to conservatives??
Yea .. I didn't think so
And what hardship has Teddy had to over come??
He comes from one of the richest families in this country
Bravo! I've wanted to do the same thing as I'm sure many others would too. Free speech, remember? Or is that only apply when George Bush is speaking?
And how about barraging the school with e-mails?
Anybody know how to get their address?
This kid had better NOT get in trouble for exercising free speech and speaking the truth!
When I read the rest of the article, the only thing that came to mind was the Churchill quote, "Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.”
The problem with many liberals in this day and age is that they don't have a brain, and never grow up!
Parents on my son's baseball team were talking about the death penalty recently. A young couple who just moved from MA to GA commented how barbaric the death penalty was in GA and said that in MA they don't believe in the death penalty. I shot back that in MA you don't kill the criminals you make them Senators. Everyone else burst out laughing. Needless to say I didn't make new friends.
And if it wasn't for the internt we wouldn't know about it and the kid would be kicked out of college and that would be that.
If asked, Kennedy will say he didn't hear the guy. Count on it.
Unbelievable!
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