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.
The people of Taxachuttes are a disgrace as well, for reelecting this POS again, again, again and again.
Funny, the police stop him for yelling at Teddy the Whale, but when the libbys disrupt Ann Coulter at UCONN, not a damn thing is said...double standard, maybe?
You don't forgive murder -- that's why there's no statute of limitation.
Phooey on your ideas.
Fight fire with fire, I say.
So the next time Ann Coulter or David Horowitz is shouted down....
More open minded tolerance, acceptance and support of free speech on campus I see.
Too bad by "Free Speech" they didn't mean for us....
Thanks for the ping. Good thread.
Oh Wow!! I see!! Excuse my mistake. I just woke up!! Thank you for explaining a keyboard to me!! Anything else you care to explain to me? I don't think the arrows are pretty on my keyboard. Yours must be special like you!!!
They can handle it. You are operating on the misbegotten assumption that the opposition is composed of rational ethical human beings. When we appropriate their tactics, we win!
(This is coming from a longtime prolife activist, who tried for many years to engage the Left in rational debate. I think our conservative youngsters have a better handle on things.)
Does anyone have an email for this kid? I'd love to congratulate him on telling it like it is! Gee if it would have been a heckler shouting out at Bush and hustled out we would be hearing about "free speech"! Email anyone?
Does anyone have an email for this kid? I'd love to congratulate him on telling it like it is! Gee if it would have been a heckler shouting out at Bush and hustled out we would be hearing about "free speech"! Email anyone?
How 'bout this...just an idea...next time some Marxist socialist leftist frothing dog wants to exercise his/her 1st Amendment "rights" too far, by throwing objects at a conservative, the speaker uses his/her 2nd Amendment rights to deal with it?
If he gets in trouble it's instant lawsuit city.
Drunken...as usual.
Ping!
there is no statute of limitations on murder in MA.... we could STILL go after him just like his cousin Skakel
Actually there could be a few different types.
Ben Franklin diplomacy award
Paul Revere Early Warning Medal
Thomas Paine Rabble Rousing Medal
I'm sure other people can think of some more.
I love it! Great job kid!
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