Student under fire for yelling:
'Remember Chappaquiddick!'
Self-described liberal hollers phrase as Kennedy begins on-campus speech

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Posted: February 22, 2006
9:14 p.m. Eastern


By Ron Strom
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., 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 Tuesday morning.

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.

The student said one of his teachers confronted him after a class 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.

"I haven't yet found out what's going to happen to me," Trost said, referring to the warning from campus police.


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."

"I don't regret what I did," Trost said. "And if they ask me to apologize, I won't do it."

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."

Today is Kennedy's birthday, as he turns 74.

Youthful exuberance. Funny sometimes.

I hope this gets a lot of airtime

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Priceless!!

The free expression river flows only one direction for many.

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The only adversity Teddy Kennedy ever overcame in his career was snowy roads on the way to the closest tavern.

Young Trost's statement is clearly political speech and the school hasn't got a prayer of succeeding in any meaningful discipline. I wonder if the ACLU will defend him?

George SSSS

You, sir are way off, what about all of the hangovers he had to overcome.

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I don't think he has ever had a hangover...the guys perpetually drunk 24/7/365

Hell No. But maybe the ACLJ will.

He broke one of the major rules. That student must be punished... you are never allowed to point out the illegal acts/ommisions of any liberal. Period.

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after that sh!tbag embarrassed himself and his country during the SC nomination hearings, I am surprised he has anyone left on the planet that doesn't want to break his face. but I guess this kid is the only liberal I can ever remember agreeing with.

All Kennedys bring the suck.

http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm

http://dailysally.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-ted-kennedy-c...aquiddick-story.html

Virtual Teddy

I don't like them.

Allen for President