Mary Jo Kopechne is known as the woman who was found dead in Senator Ted Kennedy’s car. Read about her and see photos below.
Mary Jo Kopechne
As everyone knows by now, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy was rushed to the hospital this morning for what was thought to be a stroke and then later was determined to be seizures for unknown reasons. When I first heard the reports, everyone was speaking about him in the past tense. It was as though they assumed he was already dead or dying. The reporters and commentators gradually changed over to talking about what a great man he is as reports came out that he apparently was going to be just fine.
As it is right now, Teddy Kennedy has not had to face the ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne just yet.
I had to leave the television. Please don’t misunderstand me, I don’t wish anyone harm, not even Ted Kennedy. But when I hear people talking about him and using words like ‘courageous’, ’statesman’, ‘leader’, ‘American icon’, ‘legend of the political left’, etc., it just makes me nauseous. People talk about what a difficult life he has had. Could someone PLEASE explain that to me? What difficult life? I realize he’s had some deaths in his family, but who hasn’t? He was born with unlimited money and power and has used it throughout his life to get whatever he wants and to avoid responsibility for any behavior.
He has enough power and money that he was able to get the Pope to give him an annulment from his wife of many years and the mother of his children, thus, ensuring his path to heaven …. at least as far as his divorce and remarriage is concerned.
He has enough money and power that when Mary Jo Kopechne died in his car, he could come up with a far-fetched story claiming he couldn’t save her in 5 feet of water even though he was able to swim 500 feet across the channel. He didn’t report the crime until a day or so later. He not only didn’t spend a moment in jail, he kept his seat in the Senate and has been re-elected to the Senate repeatedly every since. All he had to do was put a neck brace on and go before the American people and talk about how her death affected HIM and all was forgiven.
Sorry folks, but his name is forever linked with the name of Mary Jo Kopechne. I suppose he has enough money and power that those around him choose to believe his every utterance, choose to speak of him in grandiose terms and choose to forget that he has lived a life of exceptional cowardice, gluttony, narcissism, immorality, dishonesty, childishness and self-promotion.
Take a moment and read (or listen to) his speech after he left Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his submerged car on Chappaquiddick Island. Read what he has to say in his own words, with a neck brace around his neck for good effect and see why there are those who haven’t forgotten his history and don’t view him as the great statesman he would like to be his legacy. Just because he’s lived longer than some, doesn’t make him a better person.
By his own statement, he and his family had participated in the sailing event on the island for 30 years, yet he accidentally drove off the bridge because it was dark and the bridge has an odd angle to it. He’s 30 years familiar with the island, yet not familiar enough to navigate the roadways.
He was comforting Ms. Kopechne and other Kennedy campaign secretaries because they were so upset over the death of Robert Kennedy. That’s all. Nothing more. His wife would have been there, but she wasn’t feeling well.
And, he adds, he doesn’t like the fact that people implied he might have been driving drunk or conducting himself in an immoral manner! He had been at the party and had simply been comforting these ‘girls’ and was simply giving Mary Jo Kopechne a ride.
His conduct and statements over the few hours after he allowed Ms. Kopechne to drown in his car is simply inexplicable. He says he can’t explain it because he doesn’t remember it. His doctors told him it was shock. Yet, he can tell us how he felt as the water rushed into the car, how he got to the surface and how he repeatedly dove down to try to rescue Ms. Kopechne until he thought he would drown again.
He remembers clearly going back to the party and getting his kin folk to come help him. The only reason he told them not to tell anyone else was because he didn’t want to scare the other ‘girls’ who were friends of Ms. Kopechne. His only concern was for them.
He had been much too exhausted to rescue the ‘girl’ he was escorting, but for some inexplicable reason, he dove back into the water, swam across the 500 foot channel, went to his hotel and slept till the next morning.
The next morning he called his family attorney who convinced him to report the accident.
That all makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? If he says it, it must be true.
The one thing in the speech that rang true, he said:
This last week has been an agonizing one for me and for the members of my family, and the grief we feel over the loss of a wonderful friend will remain with us the rest of our lives.
It was all about him. Awfully inconsiderate of Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his car like that and leave him to have to salvage his marriage and career.
Don’t worry, Teddy Kennedy is feeling better, but Mary Jo Kopechne is still dead.
Mary Jo Kopechne
May 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. Administration was embarrassed two weeks ago when the
Army’s final report on explosive devices being used in Iraq, if proof could be found they were coming from Iran. The Army concluded they couldn’t have come from Iran, due to an analysis of explosive signatures, their design, fabrication techniques, metallurgy, etc. They came from somewhere else – possibly even Israel.
At this point, it’s clear we need a general court martial convened by two flag –level officers from each branch of the military. This court would decide when and how to turn George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and several others, over to the UN War Crimes Court in the Netherlands for indictment and trial.
.Even after these individuals exit public office, it is the obligation of the United States to turn them over. The U.S. is a signatory to all four Geneva Conventions. Once ratified, this became law of the land within the U.S. and violations are felonies.
If found guilty of the lesser of the war crimes, such as wanton destruction of civilian and historical sites, with the intent of spreading terror, and to force depopulation and create refugees - punishment would likely be prison time of no more than ten years. The operation of torture camps and the intentional targeting of women and children for thrill killings, and the hiding of evidence of these crimes and tampering with investigations would result in more severe sentences – possibly even hanging.
Those officers that actively participated in these atrocities or in their cover-ups would be as culpable as those committing the crimes themselves. They would not have, ‘I was following orders’ as a defense.
It is clearly time for Americans to do some soul-searching. We have murdered tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. In the course of an invasion and occupation that were fully based on a series of known lies and fabrications. These were carried out with criminal intent.
We are now in the process of committing the same lies and fabrications, only this time it’s about Iran.
Each of us must decide now, before it is too late. An attack on Iran would be as illegal and criminal. The potential for other nations to be drawn into such wider, needless war, along with the high probability of the U.S. employing nuclear weapons would be disastrous.
17 men from Saudi Arabia flying airliners into buildings in the U.S.
The U.S. would have been justified inserting teams of counter terrorism units into Saudi Arabia, to destroy their strongholds. We did not. The Bush family’s fortunes are extremely close to the Bin Laden family, and to those that planned the attacks of 9-11. John McCain is a large shareholder in a charter air company that quietly whisked all members of the Bin Laden family and Saudi Royals family out of the U.S., the day after 9-11, while the rest of the country was enduring a full shutdown of commercial air travel. That same air charter proprietary front company.
If an attack on Iran is perpetuated, it would likely be preceded by a false-flag action carried out by Israel or the U.S.
If that war commences, it will be time for all enlisted and officer to render their consciences and walk away.
Someday your grandchildren will be asking whether you stood up for reason and the law, or if you were swept up with the mass hysteria, delusions and hyped fear and hatred that bankrupted our nation for generations to come.
They will ask what you did to try to stop the insanity
They will ask how soon you took a stand.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
disregard and delete my last, was posted in error, wrong url
May 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Great post! Only Howie Carr has more stuff, lol. Everyone wants to know why I’m not more sympathetic to his suffering. I ask them if a brain tumor is more painful than drowning, lol!
June 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am
The Ultimate Judge will judge him; I hope and pray Ms. Kopechne is standing behind St. Peter when he tries to lie or buy his way into heaven. Contrition? Repentance? Give me a break. The sob deserves eternal damnation. Good riddance.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Un-brainedwashed: you’re an idiot. Have no idea of how the world works!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
ahhhhhh..Mary Jo Kopechne…always teetering on the lips of Republicans. Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers. I always here those names too.
wanna know two names you never hear from Republicans? Michael Dutton Douglas. and Vito Fossella. I guess the liberal media always mentions these names, right?
September 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
Ms Kopechne was going out with a married man? She was no saint. And I am sure he tried to help her, give us a break! But I’m also sure he was drunk, which is why he ran away.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Kennedy is a drunkard piece of white trash garbage. Say hi to Mary Jo you piece of shit, you’ll finally be seeing her soon.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Paybacks are HELL aren’t they Teddy, yours will begin shortly. I don’t think your Daddy’s crooked money means much where you are going. Be very prepared for a warm, dry climate and take a long swig of cool water before you die because it’s gonna have to last you thru all eternity.