HA ha...
and the RATS take another one in the...
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."
If the students weren't so brainwashed, all of them would have been yelling "Remember Chappaquiddick". Apparently they never heard of Kennedy's drunk driving, leaving the scene, vehicular manslaughter, obstruction of justice, perjury, and more recently, treason. They dont know that the fish from Massachusetts left a woman to die in his submerged car, while he fled, hid in a motel room, and schemed with his lawyers by phone.
I think we all ought to get a rotation going of calling Kennedy's office once every day and asking to speak to Mary Jo.
Not only was he guilty of negligent homicide (possibly two counts if Mary Jo was pregnant), he was also guilty of driving under the influence, driving without a license, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries or fatalities and conspiring to obstruct justice with his attorney. And because he was a Kennedy, he pretty much got a pass thanks to Papa K's money and influence. Had it been any of us, we would have been spending a good portion of our lives as guests of a penitentiary somewhere.
And he goes around all pious lecturing about morality to everyone else.
Damn fine idea!!!
He should be punished! Free speech was never intended for people like us!
Hey Ronnie, I gotta tell you after seeing your V-N pictures.
When I was a very young kid, 9 years old or something...I shook the Senator's hand while he was marching in a parade somewhere.
I am now a lefty.....
Ya know, there is a joke is there somewhere, but I am not a lefty....Back to the joke drawing board.
Regards.
Hey Teddy K... it must really suck to be you.
Speaking of "sucking"...not even Monica would touch him!
Dead on.
That has got to be one of the best, if not, the best retort to a posting I have ever seen here on FR. It may go down in FReeper lore. And, BTW, I third that.
ripoff those qoutes for own use later bump. :)
This kid nearly suffered greater legal penalties for saying two words than Teddy Kennedy did for causing Mary Jo Kopechne's death.
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The very summer of my graduating from high school, I shook hands with my then idol JFK on the day of his accepting his party's 1960 nomination for President of the United States in Los Angeles.
I didn't wash my right hand for three full days afterwards.
We now know what JFK had really been up to that convention week with a string of women in Beverly Hills, so perhaps I should have washed that right hand afterwards after all..?
5 years later it was my turn again with a young Senator TED KENNEDY visiting us at our 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) An Khe Headquarters in a then Free South Vietnam.
(See 5th Picture down)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
A Vietnam visit that brought a new Senator TED KENNEDY to the same home base camp of a young Lt. RICK RESCORLA ...who decades later predicted future terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and then went on to save 1,000's of lives there after those attacks:
http://www.RickRescorla.com
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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Being forced to drive a lousy Oldsmobile, rather than the Cadillac he deserved?
Spilling his drink, and having to open another bottle of Scotch all by himself, with his own two pudgy hands?
Finding out he really DID have to pay Guido and Luigi to write his college papers for him?
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Yes, Star, we Freepers just don't want to be...
....DEAD RIGHT.
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'Can't you forgive him after all these years?' And I said, 'No, he killed somebody.'
There is no time limit from resecution for murder. Unless you're a 'burp' Kennedy.
Wasn't Kenndy the Hero of Chappaquiddick ????
That, in a nutshell, is nothing less than extortion, which, if I recall correctly, is a felony.
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 would have put that last part as " By the way, are you aware that your blatant attempt to intimidate me is highly illegal?"
the infowarrior
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