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."
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which commander in chief ? GW's wife Hillary for Foster GHB in WWII JFK also in WWII
I looked it up again, and confirmed that it was a satirical posting by one Scott Ott from 2004; Rumsfeld definitely did NOT say anything like that to Ted Kennedy.
Neither, apparently, did Alan SImpson. I seem to remember Simpson saying something nearly as good to some kind of Lib Icon, maybe Teddy.
>>>Everyone should remember that this hits a little close to home for the Commander in Chief's immediate family.<<<
Apples/orages.
A better nickname would be "ChappaquiDICK."
I think the reason he waited was to get the alcohol out of his system. As I recall, he had had a few past DUI's, due to that, it would have been an automatic murder charge for her death had it been found he was DUI.
Wow, I went and read the whole thing. I've never seen such a complete account with all the eyewitness statements.
Democrats act like the charges that Kennedy killed her are just inuendo with no facts. Damn, there are so many facts it just boggles my mind. Our senators and congressmen don't need to be wasting time trying to block the port deal. They need to be making a bill that prevents the Democrats of Massachusetts from being allowed to vote because they have definitely displayed their mental deficiency by electing this man, who at the very least is responsible for involuntary manslaughter and a criminal coverup and most probably is responsible for murder.
I haven't noticed in this thread any mention of the most damning detail of all: Kennedy immediately found his way to childhood friend Joe Gargan, and tried to convince him to report seeing an accident take place on the bridge and that MJK was the driver of the vehicle. Gargan kept pressing Kennedy to come clean and report the accident that he himself was involved in. But Gargan did tell a little white lie to the other girls who know MJK that she had already arrived back at the destination safely.
He is probably referring to the accident in which Laura Bush killed her 17-yr old classmate after running a stop sign. As other posters have pointed out, there is no comparison between an accident and the murder by drunk Teddy Kennedy.
Typical Liberal College Plantation.
Yeah, that holding back stuff can't be good for you. I wish he would have just come out and said what was really on his mind..... :0 )
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."
Trost's father, Edward, who calls himself a conservative, says he's proud of his son.
Keep workin' on him dad. The kid's on his way to fully seeing what is RIGHT.
Didn't he (or his father) PREVENT an autopsy from being performed on Mary Jo?
"The surprising thing is that this does not occur every time the disgusting whale speaks at an event."
Maybe the start of a trend.
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