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."
Your # 12 has it right.
LoL..
You should say what you really think. Holding back like that is bad for your health.
Here's a good one - straight from DU:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548367/posts?page=4#4
Uhm, do you have links to documentation backing up your versions of the historical events you describe in # 60?
I think that "Killer Whale" fits his fat ass a lot better.
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NEVER FORGET
JFK got us to Earth's Moon before the now defeated Communist Soviet Union with his setting the goal of our getting there before the 1960's decade was out.
TED KENNEDY elected to go to Martha's Vineyard to party with the girls on Apollo 11 July 1969 launch day instead of accepting NASA's special invitation to be on hand to personally witness a moon launch his own brother had made possible.
In the next decade TED KENNEDY got Congress to cut-off all funding for the then Free South Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with ...just as the Communist Soviet Union funded Communist North Vietnam with $6 Billion in military aid for its 'Final Solution' in the South. Soviet funding that translated into over 600 heavy Soviet tanks and lots of artillery coming down South on the HO CHI MINH trail.
600 tanks was more tanks than Gen. PATTON himself needed to win World War II with in Europe.
Bringing us in the end for all to see after the understandably quick Fall of Saigon, South Vietnam in April 1975:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
TED KENNEDY is now pushing hard for us to ABANDON the now Free Iraqi people exactly the way we did to the once Free South Vietnamese people long ago.
HILLARY CLINTON, who was on the side of Communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, is now pushing equally as hard to re-enter our precious Oval Office in a new time of war...
...just so new Pictues of a Re-Education Camp can be taken HERE.
For, you see...
the Enemy is now within...
...and always has been.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles of the Vietnam War-1965/66
(Pictures of another color) *
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
* See also Freeper JLO Freeper Home Page's outsanding Pictures
NEVER FORGET
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The book "Senatorial Privilege" quotes the forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, establishing that she died not by drowning, but of asphyxiation.
Had Al Gore gotten off his ass and invented the internet before then, we wouldn't have Ted Kennedy to contend with to this day.
By extension, I'm not sure which of the two I despise more...
LOL! One of the few things that would come close to fitting that fat ass.
You got that right!
Gee, I wonder why that was "toned down." Hmmm...
Couldn't be b/c Kennedy saw that in the original report many "youngsters" hadn't heard of the incident and that he didn't particularly want more national news with one foot in the can, could it. /sarcasm
I think he deserves an award such as THE ORDER OF THE FREEP that we give to those not yet with us but who pull off something that warms our hearts.
I liked your comment so much I figured I'd repost it. Have a cold one! You deserve it :-)
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Please see my ALOHA RONNIE Post No. 68 on this outstanding thread.
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Ted Kennedy was a U boat commander?
She wasn't pregnant.
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If we Vietnam Vets had had the internet as a tool to effectively fight for the Freedom of Vietnam here at home, against the same people and media institutions who are against the Freedom of others today,
...South Vietnam would still be Free today.
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