Posted on 06/11/2018 3:35:58 PM PDT by PROCON
Left: Army 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone graduating from West Point in May of 2016. Right: Army Private First Class Spenser Rapone receiving his "Ranger Scrol" patch after completing Ranger Assessment and Selection Program in 2011.
A US Army officer and West Point graduate is on his way out with a less than honorable discharge* after exposing himself as a Communist who does not support the US Constitution.
In a good case for why military officers should stay off social media (if they want to accomplish their goals, anyway), 2LT Spenser Rapone is getting the boot from the US Army after he posted graduation photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt under his uniform and wrote “communism will win” on the inside of his cap.
A subsequent investigation revealed that Rapone was not only openly Communist, but believed that the US Government must be destroyed from within, his beliefs operating the lines of Communist philosopher Rudi Dutschke’s strategy of the “long march through the institutions.”
In short, Rapone saw himself as a subversive agent of communism, infiltrating the US military from within with intent to destroy it.
One West Point teacher -LTC Robert Heffington- produced a scathing description of Rapone in a sworn statement regarding his concerns of having a Marxist cadet.
“At, best, Cadet Rapone’s online ideological screeds reveal the philosophical infatuations of a precocious adolescent, rather like a school boy who cannot stop spouting off about Nietzsche,” he wrote in a statement disseminated by SOFREP. “The ‘misunderstood’ and ‘persecuted’ young genius shouts truth to power by cobbling together ideas and quotations popping up in chat rooms or on Facebook walls, certain that his provocative and shocking proclamations will, based solely upon their vehemence and sarcasm, demonstrate both the profound sincerity and the unassailable correctness of his viewpoints.
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Military Ping
Thats fine so long as he is not leading men in the army.
At least he outed himself. Most subversive infiltrators know enough to keep a low profile. Thank God Rapone made no effort to keep his activism on the down low. Just think of the damage he could have done if he had been able to work his way to the O-5 or O-6 level.
Anything other than Honorable takes a lot of benefits off the table, though.
Big Chicken Dinner!
“Rudi Dutschke’s strategy of the “long march through the institutions.”
Well, this guy failed, but they’ve accomplished their “long march”, anyways.
Cadets are recommended by Senators. Think of all the Dem senators that have sided with Communist dictators in the past. How may appointments were made through the recommendation of said Dem senators. How many were political appointments?
But since Obama kicked out the good Generals and Admirals and only kept 'yes men' around, the Military is still infiltrated with other commie scum.
...”O5 or O6 level”....
sort of like Nidal Hasan , the Fort Hood terrorist Major
If I knew who he was and I served under this POS on a mission, I will make damn sure he disappears.
Technically Hasan was an O-4 Major.
Are you sure about this? The last I read, and I don’t recall the source, is that he not only is still in, he’s been promoted.
Active Duty ping.
Are you saying this guy got a BCD???
That would be HUGE.
If you don’t do your agreed upon service, you have to pay the government back.
Besides his politics - he is dumb as a rock doing that stunt.
He’s out. No promotion and an OTH discharge.
I immediately thought that this guy wasn’t a brilliant old school spy. Instead of a Communist hero he ends up looking really stupid.
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