Re: Ted Kennedy Named One of 10 Best US Senators

OrionCA <OrionCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:17:10 -0500, "Cisco Kid" <ckid@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy

From that article:

"Chappaquid***

On July 18, 1969, after a party on Chappaquid*** Island near the
island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Kennedy drove away with
Mary Jo Kopechne as a passenger in his 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.
According to Kennedy, he made a wrong turn onto an unlit road that led
to Dike Bridge (also spelled Dyke Bridge), a wooden bridge that was
angled obliquely to the road, and drove over its side, which had no
guardrail. The car plunged into tide-swept Poucha Pond (at that
location a channel) and landed upside down under the water. Kopechne
died, but as no autopsy was performed, the precise cause of death is
unknown. Kennedy claims he tried several times to swim down to reach
her, then rested on the bank for several minutes before returning on
foot to the Lawrence Cottage, where the party attended by Kopechne and
other "Boiler Room Girls" had occurred.

Joseph Gargan (Kennedy's cousin) and party co-host Paul Markham then
returned to the pond with Kennedy to try to rescue Kopechne. Although
there was a telephone at the Lawrence Cottage, nobody called for help.
When their efforts to rescue Kopechne failed, Kennedy decided to
return to his hotel on the mainland. As the ferry had shut down for
the night, Kennedy swam the short distance back to Edgartown. (The
next day, he appeared on camera wearing a neck brace.)

Kennedy discussed the accident with several people, including his
lawyer, before he contacted the police.

The next morning (July 19, 1969) the police recovered Kennedy's car.
Kopechne's body was discovered by diver John Farrar, who observed that
a large amount of air was released from the car when it was righted in
the water, and that the trunk, when opened, was remarkably dry. These
observations and others have led some to believe that Kopechne had not
drowned, but suffocated in an air pocket within the car.

The incident quickly blossomed into a scandal. Kennedy was criticized
for allegedly driving drunk, for failing to save Kopechne, for failing
to summon help immediately, and for contacting not the police but
rather his lawyer first.

Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of
an accident after causing injury. He received a sentence of two months
in jail, which was suspended. An Edgartown grand jury later reopened
the investigation but did not return an indictment.

Many still question whether justice was served in this case. The case
resulted in much satire directed against Kennedy, including a National
Lampoon page showing a floating Volkswagen Beetle with the remark that
Kennedy would have been elected President had he been driving a Beetle
that night; this satire allegedly resulted in legal action by
Volkswagen complaining of unauthorized use of their trademark."

Thanks for reminding us why Kennedy is such a slimeball.

"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her
head and pulled the trigger"

- George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant

- Detective Bernie Flynn eventually put together a scenario for the
accident :

"I figure,we've got a drunk driver, Ted Kennedy. He's with this girl,
and he has it in his mind to go down to the beach and make love to
her. He's probably driving too fast and he misses the curve and goes
into Cemetery Road. He's backing up when he sees this guy in uniform
coming toward him. That's panic for the average driver who's been
drinking; but here's a United States Senator about to get tagged for
driving under. He doesn't want to get caught with a girl in his car,
on a deserted road late at night, with no license and driving drunk on
top of it. In his mind, the most important thing is to get away from
the situation.

- He doesn't wait around. He takes off down the road. He's probably
looking in the rear-view mirror to see if the cop is following him. He
doesn't even see the f---ing bridge and bingo! He goes off. He gets
out of the car; she doesn't. The poor son of a bitch doesn't know what
to do. He's thinking: "I want to get back to my house, to my friends"
- which is a common reaction.

- There are houses on Dike Road he could have gone to report the
accident, but he doesn't want to. Because it's the same situation he
was trying to get away from at the corner - which turned out to be
minor compared to what happened later. Now there's been an accident;
and the girl's probably dead. All the more reason not to go banging on
somebody's door in the middle of the night and admit what he was
doing. He doesn't want to reveal himself."

"And the funny part about it was, 'Huck' was only trying to give his
directions."

http://www.ytedk.com/chapter3.htm

--
The FISA Court of Review wrote in 2002: "The Truong court,
as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held
that the President did have inherent authority to conduct
warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence
information..We take for granted that the President does
have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not
encroach on the President's constitutional power."

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200603150741.asp

Game, set, and match.


Sorry, but you can't serve with the racket in your ass. Try again.
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