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.

[peacebaby]

"the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success. "

WHAT HARDSHIPS? This is such a joke.

[de Buillion]

"REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT!!!"

Restore sanity in the electorate! - Repeal the 26th amendment, and reconsider the 19th!

[Erasmus]

Kennedy has been under the protection of Greenpeace..

Codename: Majorca.

[Dallas59]

Was he flying?

[Westlander]

It's not just the Swimmer. The whole family is rotten.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Why aren't the democrats calling for him to resign as they are Dick Cheney? "

Because the same standard does not apply to the Dems/Libs/MSM/America haters.

Your are right, Lousy HYPOCRITES !!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Kennedy has been under the protection of Greenpeace.. "

Your right, ORCA from Chappaquiddick.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I just hope this young man does not get in terrible trouble for this. He was stating a fact, yet, think of all the conservative/Republican speakers who have been physically assaulted by the liberal crowd and nothing has happened to them. "

Yes, HYPOCRISY REINS among the LIBS/DEMS/MSM/AMERICA haters..... at least they are not disappointing us.

[frankiep]

Is that supposed to be sarcastic?

[John W]

"In 1964, Kennedy was in a plane crash in which the pilot and one of Kennedy's aides were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow senator Birch E. Bayh II and spent weeks in the hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding."

[onyx]

The kid says he's a liberal arts major and has protested against the war in Iraq, adding that he's not a ring-winger.

He also says he'll not apologize...lol.

The article states that today is the Swimmer's 74 th birthday.

[baby blues]

That*s funny! They should give the kid an award. That took a lot of nerve. I*m sure Ted is going to use his power to make that kid*s life miserable.

[Arpege92]

I'm simply amazed how the left can actually support and hero worship a criminal like Ted Kennedy!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Thank God that there are "some" students from the younger generations that do "get it". Honestly, I was beginning to wonder if "any" of the younger generation students were ever going to "get it". "

It gives us a good sense of HOPE that some of the " SHEEPLE " and collage students have not been brainwashed and intimidated by the MSM and the Democratic/Liberal Gestapo arm of the Democratic/Liberal/Communist/Socialist/Nazi Party of America.

[Dahoser]

This kid needs legal and moral support in this fight. He can't do it alone or he's going to get his butt kicked out of school with a bad transcript to boot. I don't know how we get that done, but I'm in.

[no dems]

How can he get in trouble. We still have Free Speech in America.

[JohnLongIsland]

it's probably the only capital offense left in the massachussetts' penal code: yelling "remember chappaquidick".

[dbehsman]

"I just hope this young man does not get in terrible trouble for this."

This is a college in Massachusetts. I normally don't like to do any "intellectual profiling", but I'd be willing to bet that this kids life is going to be made intolerable in one manor or another. It may come in the form of teachers giving him lower grades regardless of his work. It may come in the form of other students threatening/harassing him while the administration looks the other way. In essence, the kid in the article says that he leans liberal. This will not save him from the wraith of the "open minded" liberals on campus. At the very least, you can bet that his locker will be broken into and/or his car egged.

"He was stating a fact, yet, think of all the conservative/Republican speakers who have been physically assaulted by the liberal crowd and nothing has happened to them."

I normally don't care for disruptions of any sort during a speech. But given how the conservatives have been treated lately, I have to admit I'm glad someone yelled back. As with ALL democrat scandals, the famous double standard applies. They are above the law and do not have to answer for their crimes. I think the double standard can exist only so long as the establishment media maintains the information barrier. The information barrier cannot hold forever. The truth eventually gets out.

[highlander_UW]

You're quite right. I did think of that, although didn't include it in my post, but the person Cheney accidentally shot received immediate medical attention and LIVED. Kennedy abandoned the poor girl, who did not receive any medical attention or any efforts to rescue her. I wasn't until the following day, after Kennedy tried to contact his lawyers to develop an alibi before his murder was reported...and his victim is still DEAD.