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.
I would love to see this become the battle cry at every public appearance Ted Kennedy makes from now on.
The "go get him, threaten, intimidate him" reaction toward the student reminds me of bubba clinton sending the cops after someone on a rope line, someone who DARED voice his objection to clinton.
THANK GOD THE ADULTS ARE IN CHARGE at the White House. It grants a reprieve to the law abiding citizenry.
Remember Chappaquiddick BUMP
BUMP
I just gave the student police a call and simply said "Remember Chappaquiddick" and hung up (508) 588-9100 EXT.111. If we started a call in maybe they would get the message to lay off this kid or this will get bigger than they ever wanted it to be.
Good thing those campus cops ain't got caller ID. Suggest you write the college President a repectable and thoughtful letter of appreciation for his support of free speech. Say "bless your heart' alot.
I'm sure they do have caller ID. I'm not worried.
BTTT
""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.'"
Having ted at the school - now that's the embarassment.
Calling him on his past - that's honor!
This kis is now my hero....I mean he's like BATMAN.
He's an endangered whale? I guess that would explain his breath control. :)
Good idea. Also inundate the college prez with emails. Until he drowns in conservative rhetoric. With no air pocket.
Remember the President's Inauguration?
There should be no action against the student- he was only following the behavior of adults he has seen in the news.
Maybe self-loathing, too. How else explain the patheric campaign against Carter in 1980. He must know he is nothing except bluster.
I completely agree. For all we know "Remember Chappaquiddick" are the only intelligent words this kid has ever said, and he had to resort to the liberal methods of interruption and heckling to get them out. Don't get me wrong, I am as against Chappaquiddick Fats as any conservative, but I am not ready to give this kid the VP spot on the '08 GOP ticket because of this. In my opinion we ought to leave disrespecting of the office of U.S. Senator to "Jabba the Ted" and his party, they seem to being doing a goood enough job. The correct way to handle the Kennedy murder is the way Coulter does, bring it up every time there is an opportunity and it is your turn to speak.
Wonder what he will do with the school once he wins the lawsuit for all the things he will be able to sue them for?
'Can't you forgive him after all these years?'
I'd have forgiven him had he admitted what he did and been properly punished, but it is too late for that to happen now. He has lived an elite life to which he had no right. I don't know who is the worst, him or the voters who continue to elect him. A pox on them all.
The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley was never about free speech. It was always about control.
"You seem very naieve"
My bad. After a statement like that I usually put "(sarc.)" following it. Oversight on my part. BUT, I DO KNOW HOW TO SPELL "NAIVE". It's called a "Dictionary"; check it out.
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