Posted on 02/23/2006 5:23:50 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
The college where a student shouted 'Remember Chappaquiddick!' as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., began a speech will not discipline the 20-year-old – even though campus police had warned the man of possible consequences of his action.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Paul Trost, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., Tuesday 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.
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.
Dick Cronin, a spokesman for Massasoit Community College, told WND today that Trost is off the hook.
"The college plans absolutely no disciplinary action against Mr. Trost," Cronin said. "It was simply a matter of communication from our campus police to Mr. Trost. The matter is now dropped."
A representative of the United States Justice Foundation offered pro bono legal assistance to Trost had he faced sanctions from the college.
'Can't you forgive him?'
Trost said one of his teachers confronted him after a class Tuesday 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.
Trost, a liberal arts major who has protested the Iraq war, says he's not a right-winger.
"I tend to have what would be considered liberal views," he explained, "but I go with whatever I think is right."
Said Trost: "I don't regret what I did."
Trost's father, Edward, who calls himself a conservative, says he's proud of his son.
"He didn't do it to be obnoxious," Edward Trost said. "He was really offended."
find later bump
I'll second that.
I sort of remember the part that little Teddy waited till he slept it off before he reported it. You seem to be a troll!
Overcame hardship? What hardships would that be? Can't be poverty as the Kennedy family was one of richest. Could it be he "overcame" his cheating at school, his cheating on his wife, his alcoholism, his killing of Mary Joe, etc. because the MSM gave this privileged son a free pass? The kid had it right. Anyone else would have gone to jail a long time ago. A different justice was applied to him.
I hope Howie Carr post this story on his http://www.fatboy.cc/ website ... all things FATBOY.
" Everyone should remember that this hits a little close to home for the Commander in Chief's immediate family."
A comparison between Chappaquiddick and The Laura Bush car accident is the most frequently posted analogy anytime Chappaquiddick comes up on the liberal boards I troll.
If the university had any kind of decent lawyer this was over before it started. What state funded school is going to punish a kid for using his 1st Amendment right? That would be like sending an engraved invitation for the kid to sue them and go to a much nicer university on their dime.
This was MUCH better than any pie!
I was just looking at his posts and you could be right.
I have wondered for years if she was pregnant.
You don't mean posts like this do you?
Gee, what a shocker. Cheney takes the stage, talks about oil companies, and leaves.
Please explain how this differs from anything he's done in his (vice) presidency, other than trying to hide his actual dealings with oil companies from the people who pay his salary.
Sure. A 16 year old girl (not a sitting US Senator),has an accident that tragically takes a life (of a friend, and no alcohol involved.)
You are a piece of work.
See #36.
Please explain. You're coming in weak and trollish.
Exactly what I mean.
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