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Bombastic Hypocrisy 101
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.
What a slap in the face of all Americans that this criminal gets to sit in the Senate Judiciary Committee and pass judgment on such decent, honorable people like Condoleeza Rice, John Roberts, Sam Alito, etc. What an absolute disgrace. The man has no shame whatsoever!
Great! Someday I hope conservative can earn the right to FREE SPEECH that liberals insist upon.....
Great article. Glad he did it! Hope he isn't punished. Free speech and all that. I'm also glad that he is making sure that his generation know about it.
Way to go...young man.
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Here is where we can express our free speech, directly by phone and Email to Massasoit . Support Paul Trost's rights and diversity!!!!
http://www.massasoit.mass.edu/contact.cfm
Good job, laddy...
I just had a dozen T shirts printed with that very line on it... Will wear it proudly! It has been my mantra for years.
Remember Chappaquiddick!
Hopefully it will instill in someone the yearn to look it up......And learn that the Senator from Mass is a murderer.
Has been for years.....Go read the police reports........
It sounds like this guy should get a full scholarship to a school like Grove City College or some other conservative Christian school, should his time on that campus be ended.
This is clear political speech.
He was expressing himself by his action (leaving) and communicating his evaluation of the ELECTED POLITICIAN's credentials.
If this student is diciplined in ANY way then this school should just shut its doors. It serves not purpose to society.
If this had bee conservative/leftist reversed, the announcer would be sued for provoking an outburst for not stating the complete history of the politician.
Kennedy left the woman to die, while he was in the motel calling his lawyer.
Good for him!!!!
I would like to know what adversities Kennedy might have had to overcome, perhaps how to get his money dispersed so none of it was taken by taxes??????????
If it was the lobotomized daughter, Ol' Joe would have given him a big ole sack of cash.
Far more classier tactics would have been to
Yeah, I guess what the student did was seemingly cool, but he does need to be punished for it.
My reference book is "TEDDY BARE" ..
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