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."
Everyone should remember that this hits a little close to home for the Commander in Chief's immediate family.
That kid is brining a tear to my eye...
The Kids are allright...well, some of them anyway.
Yeah, the wife of an elected official killed someone in a car accident.
That could really be in league with a Senator leaving the scene of an accident and waiting and calling your lawyer and others before reporting the accident to police.
Kind of makes the "questions" around the Cheney hunting accident disclosure look like a joke.
Not that any of those same reporters would dare ask Ted Kennedy about his actions.
However she did not leave someone to die while calling the family lawyer.
I don't think this hits at all close.
Perhaps we should take up a collection and send him some beer money, a thank you note or something. I'll contribute.
On the other hand, I'm not all that in favor of people stopping people from speaking or harrassing them and drowning them out. I think there should be discussion or Q & A. The left certainly tries to stop or drown out conservatives.
Long Island Tea party?
Too bad The Swimmer didn't get a pie in the face like Coulter.
Probably the most stupid, irrelevant post I've ever seen here on FR. There's no equivalence -- moral, factual or ethical -- between the two situations.
I remember when Al Sharpton was being interviewed (on CNN, I think) when the subject of Tawana Brawley came up. He asked the reporter if he ever asked Kennedy about Chappaquidick.
The reporter shifted gears and asked about racial inequality.
Nothing more was said about fat Ted.
Once Drudge put this up...it was over.
Holy silver spoons, Batman, I didn't know about the adversity (he said disgustedly).
Laura Ingram says we need to find a way to pay whoever operates the PA system in the senate to play "bridge over troubled waters" every time the U boat commander gets up to speak.
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Maybe she committed suicide after Teddy swam ashore. The truth must come out!
Good for this young man Trost. He stepped up to the plate and spoke out. I am proud of him. He did what other protestors do and he was removed. No need to arrest him as we don't arrest anyone else. It's good the other students were discussing it. It might help if they went back and read the reports of that evening when kennedeee allowed a young woman to drown to death.
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