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Communist Army LT, prior enlisted Ranger, receives punishment for West Point stunt
Bright Mountain Media ^ | June 8, 2018 | Andy Wolf

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.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: communist; dumbass; spenserrapone; usarmy; westpoint
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To: Ronin

Nevermind! I found a Washington Times story on the same subject. This is MORE WINNING!

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/8/spenser-rapone-communism-will-win-officer-receives/

If Hillary had won, he’d be promoted and probably on her personal staff.


21 posted on 06/11/2018 4:07:43 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks for the information. I always thought it was honorable or dishonorable...... never knew there were that many.


22 posted on 06/11/2018 4:11:11 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: PROCON

23 posted on 06/11/2018 4:13:46 PM PDT by deport
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To: PROCON

A communist essentially declaring war on the United States at our premiere national military academy is now a “stunt”? Every day we fal deeper and deeper into the hole.


24 posted on 06/11/2018 4:14:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Joe 6-pack

Just think of the damage that could be done by a non-natural born citizen Marxist muslim President who appointed a Marxist muslim as CIA Director and ran out the warriors from the military and promoted only those embraced transsexuals serving............


25 posted on 06/11/2018 4:17:02 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ronin
Here's another link:

Update: Communist Ranger and West Pointer receives an Other Than Honorable discharge

26 posted on 06/11/2018 4:18:00 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON
Per article, this red bastard advocated fellow communist "Rudi Dutschke’s strategy of the 'long march through the institutions'".; which was taken directly from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

This M.O. has already been well underway—starting with the Bushes whose lax oversight allowed them a toehold, through Bill Clinton, and onto Obama who attempted to administer the coup de grâce. Brennan is a prime example of the infection.

The whole Federal bureaucracy is infected top to bottom. If President Trump serves 8 years, there will still be a decade or two more work to do. The parasitic infection is deep and systemic.

Spenser Rapone thought he would be another cog in this wheel, even graduating from a service academy with a commission. Had he kept his mouth shut, he would have succeeded.
 

27 posted on 06/11/2018 4:20:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: PROCON

I bet the black cadets with thier black power salutes are still in place. It’s not just communists who are applying the rot from within methodology.


28 posted on 06/11/2018 4:20:13 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: leaning conservative
There's also Officer Discharge, in which Officer-grade members of the military fall if they would have received a BCD or DD.

And, finally, Entry Level Seperation, which is neither considered good or bad. You simply cannot hack it. Maybe it's medical, maybe you're too fat, maybe you have a mental illness for which you receive medication.

Yeah, you cannot be out in combat and discover you are all out of your anti-psychotic medicine.

29 posted on 06/11/2018 4:26:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: PROCON

There needs to be a good hard look at whoever sponsored the commiescum for West Point.


30 posted on 06/11/2018 4:27:00 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Jet Jaguar
he should be made to repay his tuition AND pay
31 posted on 06/11/2018 4:27:39 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Yulee

What state was he from and what senator recommended him?


32 posted on 06/11/2018 4:31:45 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: PROCON
Good - now we need to go after Dan Helmer, running for congress as a RAT on VA 10th district. He says he's an Afghan War Vet, still in the reserves, and is running TV commercials comparing Donald Trump to Bin Laden.

Anybody serve with this guy? Army 03 I believe?

33 posted on 06/11/2018 4:34:42 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: max americana

You are not alone.


34 posted on 06/11/2018 4:35:20 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: PROCON

Not enough punishment. Taxpayers deserve a refund for all expenses paid on his behalf. His appointment to Westpoint denied a more deserving candidate that placement as well.


35 posted on 06/11/2018 4:38:05 PM PDT by wtd
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To: PROCON

If I understand the contract correctly, he now has an unbelievable college bill. You don’t fulfill your contract, you must repay tuition, room, board, and supplies.


36 posted on 06/11/2018 4:43:32 PM PDT by Jemian (Americans are dreamers, too.)
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To: PROCON

Too bad that the Federal government asked if you were a member of the Communist Party or an adherent to its beliefs as part of your screening for a security clearance. However, if he was turned to be a commie after he got his initial clearance by one of his professors at West Point, then that is mute. I’m glad he is gone.


37 posted on 06/11/2018 4:50:50 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: certrtwngnut; Yulee

Congressmen also have the power to nominate 2 people for the military academies per year; thus the nomination process is not limited to senators. I think a congressman from Pennsylvania appointed him. And, if he was turned to communism by the professor who has been suspended, then a probably good soldier was turned bad from within West Point.


38 posted on 06/11/2018 4:57:32 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: scottinoc
God I'm glad Trump won 10
39 posted on 06/11/2018 5:11:02 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: King Moonracer

I got a phone call from then rep Mike Pompeo when I criticized that junior political stunt by the esteemed cadets. He intended to make his displeasure known.


40 posted on 06/11/2018 5:11:39 PM PDT by whistleduck ("....the calm confidence of a Christian with 4 aces".....S.)
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