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."
Yep, there's some strange stuff.
"Chappaquiddick Kid." Would be the perfect nick name for Kennedy.
Good Grief......is that first pallbearer on the left Rueben Kincaid from "The Partridge Family"?
you brainless twit! Your statement isn't worth dwelling on given its incomprehensible magnitude.
You are blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. One- one-billionth of a second of your stupididty can furnish all material in the known and unkown universe with stupidity for eternity… or longer.
Your life is a monument to stupidity. A veritable Taj Majal, Mt Rushmore, Great Pyramid, Statue of Liberty of honor to stupidity. You are both the Mercedes and Rolls Royce of stupid with quality control that borders on the maniacally stupid.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid.
Carbon atoms squeezed into Diamond at the bottom of Mt. Everest stupid.
World-class, A -1 , 5 Gold Medal, Tour de France 12 times, top of the heap, triple whopper with cheese, supersized Big Mac, extra double bacon with fries stupid . A behemoth, a leviathan, a colossus of stupidity.
So stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. One-of-a-kind, global, universal, intergalactic, worm hole stupid. A stupid so simple in it’s nature yet so complicated that you present the unified field theory of stupid. A stupid measured not in light years but in light years to the google power to the google degree in depth, length and breadth… as well as in time.
You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Benzene ring all carbon double bonds stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed unable to emit one single paticle of non stupid material.
The black hole colapsed down upon itself and shot into another dimension stupid.
You are a primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of stupidity as we know it.
or...just a typical liberal..
I'm really surprised that the campus cop would follow him outside, take down his name and address and then tell him he could face disciplinary action.
I'm truly not a loud-mouth or a confrontational type - but I think I'd have told the cop "Fine, do what you have to. I spoke my mind and I don't fear the repercussions. By the way, are you trying to intimidate me?".
I Second it!
It's a troll. Go to his page and read his contributions to the dialogue here.
Free pass is the key phrase, the democrats attract the worst because they all get a free pass, its automatic, a person like Clinton would never had even got to Governor if He were a republican, it explains a lot on why they are so slimy. You don't really get slimy after joining, you are slime and join for the free pass and to join with other slime in their vote cheating, corruption and collusion to commit felonies like the Clinton Mafia family.
"...The surprising thing is that this does not occur every time the disgusting whale speaks at an event...."
Maybe it will. All it takes is one person to light the fuse. Get enough people doing it repeatedly, and maybe the Swimmer will go off the deep end. Hopefuly, that will start to dredge up all the devils in his past and drive him insane. We can all hope.
Has to be a troll.
I agree
Your commentary pretty much says it all. Thanks!
My eyes are still tearing up after reading that. You made my day.
I do hope you get over your shyness someday.
Teddy has suffered enough, leave him alone. He could of been a congressman, senator, why, even a president, a contendah, but look at him now, he's a nobody, a bum...
My hero!
All of the above which you've mentioned, but I think he REALLY got in trouble for wrecking his Mom's car.
I also really surprised that the campus plastic police and the state cops harassed the kid. Being from the People's Republic of Taxachusetts. I get plenty of chances to harass the Dem all stars. I've asked Barney Fag how his boyfriends gay whorehouse was doing?, Given 'effin Kerry a Nazi salute.(should of seen his face). Stepped right in front a state cop to flip a double middle finger salute to Bubba Boy Billy Clinton. I thought Billy was going to wet his pants. I told the State troooper I had waited 8 years to flip that creep off. The State Trooper laughed and said Billy deserved it.
I guess the only reason they harassed him was becuase he was on liberal turf.
Anyways good for him, he should of finished it off with a double middle finger salute
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