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Student under fire for shout: 'Remember Chappaquiddick!'
WorldNetDaily ^ | February 22, 2006 | Ron Strom

Posted on 02/23/2006 12:13:15 AM PST by CrawDaddyCA

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To: CrawDaddyCA
"I haven't yet found out what's going to happen to me," Trost said, referring to the warning from campus police.

Where is the ACLU protecting this mans "FREEDOM OF SPEECH?"

Any bets if they had yelled anything against the war to Bush or Cheney, it would be a freedom of speech issue?

41 posted on 02/23/2006 12:36:15 AM PST by DakotaRed
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To: Indy Pendance

Restore state representation in the federal government

REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT!!!


42 posted on 02/23/2006 12:36:16 AM PST by frankiep
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To: CrawDaddyCA

43 posted on 02/23/2006 12:37:36 AM PST by BJungNan
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To: CrawDaddyCA; PhilDragoo; potlatch; ntnychik; smoothsailing; holdonnow


44 posted on 02/23/2006 12:38:32 AM PST by devolve (<-- (upload to free image accts at Photobucket & Imagecave)
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To: frankiep

I agree! But if we can't repeal, I'd go with 2 terms. Reps too. Enough already with the millionaire politicians running this country because they 'bought' their seat.


45 posted on 02/23/2006 12:38:40 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Gondring

Don't be amazed. Lynch is a typical Mass lib toady.


46 posted on 02/23/2006 12:39:44 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
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To: CrawDaddyCA


Click on either of the two books to find out more. (Will open in a new page)
47 posted on 02/23/2006 12:40:48 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: singfreedom; Dallas59

Check the date on the magazine cover.I believe it is regarding a plane crash he was involved in earlier.


48 posted on 02/23/2006 12:41:03 AM PST by John W
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To: Irishguy

We can call it the "Profiles in True Courage Award". That'll piss 'em off.


49 posted on 02/23/2006 12:41:32 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
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To: DakotaRed

How about if it had been Cindy Sheeham yelling something out at a Rumsfeld speech?


50 posted on 02/23/2006 12:42:14 AM PST by raccoonradio
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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.


51 posted on 02/23/2006 12:42:45 AM PST by Bon mots
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I'm going to dress up like the ghost of a female drowning victim with a "Mary Jo" sign around my neck

You'd better hope Bubba isn't there, too, or you're liable to get groped.

52 posted on 02/23/2006 12:43:41 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
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To: CrawDaddyCA

Thank you for posting this, CrawDaddyCA- And thank you for your heroic performance, Paul Trost! Now, you better depart MA ASAP!


53 posted on 02/23/2006 12:44:13 AM PST by de Buillion (Give us your perverts, pedophiles, and sodomites. San Francisco wants YOU!)
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To: CrawDaddyCA
"Remember Chappaquiddick!"

No booze for you!

54 posted on 02/23/2006 12:45:07 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Dubai-u's fault--The Port Non-Issue is Hillary's Sistah Soulja moment)
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To: highlander_UW

*****He waited until the next day to report the incident to the authorities? Why aren't the democrats calling for him to resign as they are Dick Cheney? Lousy hypocrites.*****

And to expand on that idea, Cheney didn't report the incident immediately because he was busy making sure his victim was receiving the necessary medical care. Teddy, however, was calculating how he'd keep his sorry a** out of jail. Cheney came through and made his accident right, Teddy failed to do so.

Oh, and the comment by the teacher, "Can't you forgive him for what happened so long ago?" What is that trash? Does time make her any less dead? By that logic, when can we forgive Hitler for his crimes?


55 posted on 02/23/2006 12:46:07 AM PST by Zeppelin (Texas Longhorns === National Champions !!!)
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To: Zeppelin

The local sherriff's office was notified as soon as possible.


56 posted on 02/23/2006 12:47:27 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: CrawDaddyCA

Normally I'm not a fan of people yelling in a speech. Let what's going to be said be said. Comment afterward.

However, given the circumstances and the liberal lunatics who firebomb any speech given by a conservative, I think this kid needs to put up a fight.

As an aside, I don't know how many people in my generation really know about it. I have a buddy, and when a fine specimen of the female gender walks by, we'll just occasionally ask, "Chappaquiddick?" It basically means hop in, the water's fine and was one of those odd inside jokes that arose. Nobody seems to have a clue that we're even alluding to anything, which is probably good because that could easily get taken the wrong way.


57 posted on 02/23/2006 12:50:24 AM PST by CheyennePress
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To: windcliff

ping


58 posted on 02/23/2006 12:50:57 AM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: CheyennePress

It's kind of like the kool-aid reference.


59 posted on 02/23/2006 12:51:33 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Bon mots
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
60 posted on 02/23/2006 12:52:49 AM PST by Bon mots
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