Posted on 09/25/2017 4:30:28 PM PDT by mandaladon
As the discourse rolls on regarding former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernicks decision to take a knee during the national anthemand the movement his protest ignitedsupport 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 Rapones Combat Infantryman Badgemeaning 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 ...
He needs to be kicked out of the U.S. army in disgrace. it is illegal to promote a political ideology while in uniform.
Nobody beats the sh*t out of this guy? I find that hard to believe.
I really could have gone to my grave not knowing that there is a Muslem Cadet Association at West Point.
Every time you think you cant give a $hit any more than you did yesterday, The Cowboys ALL take a knee and Communist muslms flaunt UCMJ violations in public.
Keep your powder dry. BLOAT or reload TODAY.
Remember when Democrats considered it shocking and downright insulting for McCarthy and others to DARE question the patriotism and loyalty of those within the US military and State Department?
How is it that a West Point cadet wears all that fruit salad?
Former enlisted?
Dying ain’t making much of a living, boy.
Fix bayonets!
This dude doesn’t understand America and should not be a solider.
That haircut alone would have been an Art 15; I can't believe this is real, I thought West Point still had standards.
Are you associated with West Point in any way? I only ask because a friend of mine is a member of some WP group, maybe boosters or something and he's very knowledgeable of military history, especially that of West Point...
His son was also a WP grad who was accepted into the academy while he was an Army enlistee......
In McCarthy’s case, he was 100% spot on correct with his accusations. And to reiterate: He did not advocate prosecuting these people or putting them in jail. He simply thought they shouldn’t be allowed to hold sensitive (or any) government positions, allowing rightly that these people were in favor of overthrowing the republican form of government.
McCarthy should be celebrated as an American hero, and I don’t use the word “hero” lightly. He bought this country at least 56 years of breathing space from the scourge of communism, but in 2008 that all changed.
I still cannot believe this is for real. I just cannot bring myself to believe it. It has to be a hoax. Can anyone verify this is 100% true?
I think this is some kind of hoax.
Liberals love to put this kind of stuff out there to thumb the eyes of conservatives. They giggle and say to each other “Watch this!” as they they throw a live bird into a cage of conservative cats.
I despise liberals and all they stand for. If this guy is for real (and I do need more proof than I have) it is even more disturbing to me that he hasn’t been thrown out of the Army or had the snot beaten out of him by other cadets.
That is more disturbing if this is true.
To be honest, in my life, I never thought someone like him, with ties to open racists and avowed, unrepentant terrorists could get elected, never mind get elected twice.
That tells me there is a rot that may be beyond fixing.
this asshole should be drummed out of the service and sent to gitmo
too bad he wasn’t in the navy....then he could be thrown overboard
Article 32 is a court martial. First the court martial, then the .308.
5.56mm
Sounds good.
Thanks
Maybe I’m just old but to me he looks too young to have a CIB.
CIB
Combat Parachutists Badge
Army Air Assault Badge
(L) Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct (4yrs), National Defense, Afghanistan Campaign Medal (W/+1 doo-dad), Global War on Terrorism Service Medal (R)
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You can see part of the scene around him in the reflection on his brass chest buckle.
Thats some FUBAR $hit, right there.
He’s a fake because he’s hiding the t shirt instead of wearing it on the outside for everyone to see.
The note is hidden inside his cap, not on the outside for all to see.
A fake. But communists can do nothing but fakery.
Communism exists for only one reason: its followers are plagued by loss of authenticity and have been duped to believe that in communism they’ve recovered that lost authenticity.
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