Student under fire for shout: 'Remember Chappaquiddick!'

WorldNetDaily ^ | February 22, 2006 | Ron Strom

[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.

[de Buillion]

Obviously!

[Salvation]

and Mary Jo Kopechne died!

[highlander_UW]

and Mary Jo Kopechne died!

Indeed. Imagine the levels of hypocrisy the democrats could achieve if only Cheney's friend died.

[Doctor Raoul]

The left would call such action against one of their people "a police state" and demand their free speech rights.

[Bon mots]

Click on either of the two books to find out more. (Will open in a new page)

Ted Kennedy, after consuming numerous alcoholic beverages, leaves a private party with a young lady not his wife. His wife, you see, is pregnant and is at home back in Massachussetts.

Sen. Kennedy is driving with a suspended license.

A local peace officer wonders if Kennedy's car is lost after seeing it first go one way and then back up and start going a different way. He approaches it on foot. The car then takes off at a high rate of speed.

Shortly after this, the car drives off of Chappaquiddick Bridge, flips over and lands upside down in 8 feet of water. Sen. Kennedy exits the vehicle. The young woman with him does not.

For the next 9 hours, instead of simply calling the police and rescue workers, Sen. Kennedy desperately goes to work on an alibi.

Kennedy confesses the accident to two people, one of whom is his cousin and lawyer, Joseph Gargan. They press him to report the accident, which he is understandably reluctant to do. The two men press Kennedy so much, he surprises them by shouting that he will report the accident and then dives into the lake and swims the harbor to the hotel where he was staying.

Taking Kennedy at his word, Gargan and the other man remain on the Island. In the morning, Gargan is stunned to find Kennedy chatting with friends and getting ready to head for breakfast.

Not only did Kennedy not report the accident, he also took pains to be seen by a hotel staff member late that night and madee a point of asking the man what time it was.

Two fishermen discovered the upside down car next to the bridge that morning, while Kennedy was still feverishly working on his alibi.

To drink and drive is a crime. To flee the scene of an accident is a crime. To fail to render aid to someone injured in an accident you caused is a crime. While sleeping around on your wife is not a crime, it does display poor judgement and a low moral character.

Senator Kennedy did all these things and because he is a Kennedy, he got away with it. Had you or I gotten drunk and driven off a bridge with someone in the car with us, and we left them to die while we chose not to report the accident and instead tried to invent an alibi, you or I would go to prison. We are not Kennedys.

The key merit of this book is that it demonstrates how in America today someone with power and influence can engage in criminal conduct and not only never be called to account for their crimes, but can even flourish and sit in position of moral authority over others.

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I quote:

Teddy Kennedy, who drove his car into the water off a Chappaquiddick, Mass. Bridge, drowning his pregnant girlfriend, while he swam back to his hotel, took a shower, and went to bed. Next morning, he mentioned the incident in an aside to one of his "fawning" hangers-on, who told the local cops. They went out and found the body and took Teddy's driver's license away for six months. This, for a man who usually rides around in a limousine with a paid driver! (I presume he was driving that night because he didn't want any witnesses) Then he paid off the girl's family and went on television TO "apologize" to the people of Massachusetts, who dutifully re-elected him Senator again and again, until he became one of the most powerful senators in Washington. Today, they don't even MENTION Chappaquiddick. Mentioning Chappaquiddick is "unseemly" and a "personal attack."

I remember a "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" then telling me proudly that Chappaquiddick only cost Kennedy one percent in the polls. ONE PERCENT for killing his pregnant girlfriend! And people wonder why I have no time for this jerk. Nobody mentions it any more, yet they almost offhandedly throw in cracks about Rush Limbaugh's problems with prescription drugs whenever they can. And they laugh at Reagan's tendency to fall asleep while boring speakers droned on and on.

Nobody in Washington mentions Sen. Robert Byrd's history with the racist Ku Klux Klan. Again, mentioning such things concerning a Democrat is "unseemly." But it is not true about minor problems with Republicans (such as Tom DeLay hiring his family members to help in his election campaigns or accepting lobbyist money for trips, something ALL politicians do), things Democrats do regularly while no one mentions them.

Ray Thomas

[Joe Boucher]

Sorry i lost a finger a few years ago and sometimes have trouble with typing.
Have a good one though.

[Bon mots]

bttt

[Dick Bachert]

Someone really ought to erect a statue to Mary Jo on the Mall for keeping this reprobate out of the White House. She really DID give her life for her country.

The joke around Boston – whose residents keep sending this moron back to Washington (probably to keep THEIR daughters safe) -- used to be that Teddy was down to his last brain cell. Looks like even THAT one finally gave up the ghost.