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‘Communism Will Win’: U.S. Army Infantry Officer Posts Message In Support of Kaepernick
Mediaite ^ | 25 Sep 2017 | Colin Kalmbacher

Posted on 09/25/2017 4:30:28 PM PDT by mandaladon

As the discourse rolls on regarding former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick‘s decision to take a knee during the national anthem–and the movement his protest ignited–support for the blacklisted athlete-cum-activist is sprouting up across the country.

Yesterday afternoon, on Twitter, some of that support came from U.S. Army Infantry Officer and U.S. Military Academy at West Point alumnus, Spenser Rapone.

Rapone posts under the handle @punkproletarian and is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Under the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick, he tweeted an image of himself raising the left clenched-fist of solidarity, support and resistance as well as the message, “Communism Will Win” taped inside of his West Point uniform cap. Also visible in the photograph is Rapone’s Combat Infantryman Badge–meaning he has fought in active ground combat.

Rapone followed up his initial post with retweeted images of other #VeteransForKaepernick in their combat uniforms.

LawNewz verified the legitimacy of the photograph with Rapone himself. He is currently in the field until Friday and unable to answer detailed questions, but a Medium post authored by the Infantry Officer details some of his views. He wrote, following the murder of socialist Heather Heyer during the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rallies:

The toppling of the Confederate Soldiers Memorial in Durham, North Carolina has sounded the death knell for any and all displays of Confederate aggrandizement in the United States as well as abroad. Yet, the shadow of the Confederacy and its efforts to preserve slavery is not limited to the southern United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at lawnewz.com ...


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To: mandaladon
The Cannon-er is deleting your name and want the Academy
Ring back.
101 posted on 09/25/2017 5:44:03 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Reily

U = US


102 posted on 09/25/2017 5:45:16 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

U = US


103 posted on 09/25/2017 5:45:28 PM PDT by Reily
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To: mandaladon

Supporting communism is treason and seditious. Court marshall and execute him


104 posted on 09/25/2017 5:51:05 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: hillarys cankles
U.S. Army Infantry Officer ...

As a side note, "OFFICERS" do not wear strips on their cadet uniforms.........Nor are Cadets deemed officers until graduation from the academy........

105 posted on 09/25/2017 5:51:09 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: mandaladon

This little asshole SJW and most likely homosexual needs to be removed from the military ASAP before he turns over secrets and our men wind up being killed.


106 posted on 09/25/2017 5:51:59 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Hot Tabasco

Care to elaborate on how he is a fake?

TIA


107 posted on 09/25/2017 5:53:31 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: The Toll

The Preferred way. Tie his stomach to a fully loaded cannon and fire the cannon.


108 posted on 09/25/2017 5:53:34 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: CMB_polarization; All
I googled him and found this twitter shit: Commie Bebop 🌹‏ @punkproletarian @DSAVeterans issued me this CIB for satisfactory performance under hostile enemy posting online in the twitter firefight of 26JUL #TroopLeft Something stinks about this whole thing. Has anyone found anything else?
109 posted on 09/25/2017 5:54:23 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: mandaladon
"They allow this at West Point?"


    “To do what is right for some else, even though you know it may not go well for you, that is the character trait we are missing in the Air Force today. I believe integrity has gone to the waste side at USAFA “
    —Staff Sergeant Brandon Enos, (USAFOSI “Operation Gridiron”)
    http://cryptome.org/2014/08/brandon-enos.pdf

According to a recently retired L.I.F.E.R. dominionist cadre member at the AFA, it was the local news paper's fault... for reporting the culture of rape with the AFA's purview.

I think SSGT Enos hit the "culture" on the head.

And now...

https://www.google.com/search?q=lesbian+usafa+commandant

More "culture" ahead.

110 posted on 09/25/2017 5:57:05 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: mandaladon

How does someone like this get into West Point?


111 posted on 09/25/2017 5:58:40 PM PDT by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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To: mandaladon

http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/the-syrian-revolution-of-1925-a-gramscian-redemption.html#.WcmmaBkpDqA


112 posted on 09/25/2017 5:58:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: x1stcav

Read my post 80 and 92.

It’s not fake.


113 posted on 09/25/2017 6:02:44 PM PDT by michaelsteven
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To: mandaladon

Evidently, this asshat is prior enlisted? Combat Action Ribbon, Jump Wings and Air Crew Wings. National Defense Ribbon. If he is a fake, how and why is he even on the base?


114 posted on 09/25/2017 6:03:54 PM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a man's gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: michaelsteven

Sorry 80 and 97


115 posted on 09/25/2017 6:04:24 PM PDT by michaelsteven
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To: gaijin

Good Day!

116 posted on 09/25/2017 6:07:31 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: mandaladon

He looks like an Obama Pajama Boy......


117 posted on 09/25/2017 6:12:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DoughtyOne

[He would be a clear security risk, for secrets, and for sabotage.]

I was gonna say - he’s probably a threat to National Security.


118 posted on 09/25/2017 6:16:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: michaelsteven
It’s not fake.

I'm not going to dispute you then. If he indeed graduated in 2016 then the pictures were taken while he was at the academy. And if he's currently in the military, I'm surprised he hasn't been brought up on charges.......

119 posted on 09/25/2017 6:23:07 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: snarkytart

see my last comment


120 posted on 09/25/2017 6:23:55 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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