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The West Point graduate, who last year posed in a picture holding a cap that had “Communism will win” written inside, is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge.
Spenser Rapone rocked the military community last year after his social media posts were revealed, showing him wearing a Che Guevara shirt underneath his military uniform.
He is no longer part of the U.S. military after top brass at Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division accepted his resignation Monday after an earlier warning for “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” He’s leaving the military with an other-than-honorable discharge.
Army officials condemned the cadet last year and opened an investigation into his social media activity. “Second Lieutenant Rapone’s actions in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army,” an Army statement read.
His open advocacy of communism attracted the criticism from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio who then urged the U.S. military to dismiss Rapone for supporting the country’s enemies.
The now-former cadet said the probe found him advocating for socialist revolution online and disparaging high-ranking officers and U.S. officials. The Army said it took “appropriate action” in dealing with the situation.
But Rapone remains unabashed, posting a picture on Monday showing him the middle finger at a sign at the entrance to Fort Drum, captioned with “One final salute.”
He also remains committed to the far-left causes, saying he considers himself “a revolutionary socialist” and urged others to join him in his revolution,
“I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement,” he said.
Rubio cheered the departure of Rapone. “While in uniform, Spenser Rapone advocated for communism and political violence, and expressed support and sympathy for enemies of the United States,” the Senator said on Monday. “I’m glad to see that they have given him an ‘other-than-honorable’ discharge.”
Military experts say it’s rare for an officer out of West Point to receive an other-than-honorable discharge. Greg Rinckey, an attorney specializing in military law, claimed that this opens an opportunity for the military to seek money back from Rapone for the education he received as he didn’t fulfil the five-year service obligation for all the graduates.
“I knew there could be repercussions,” said Rapone, who’s becoming a prominent far-left advocate and will be speaking at a conference for socialism next month. “Of course my military career is dead in the water. On the other hand, many people reached out and showed me support. There are a lot of veterans both active duty and not that feel like I do.”
Vacate/Withdraw his degree and make him pay back the government for wasting an appointment another could have filled. I’m surprised he never got a blanket party.
Really, of all the places that could have arranged for him to get a free helicopter ride, why didn’t he get one?
Are we moving towards communism or away?
I’d say “What a Faggot” – But that would be an insult to faggots.
Are you pro-faggot, Dutchy?
By crushing the middle east in all these wars for Israel, the west has been flooded with people who much more readily embrace communism. Therefore, one can argue that by its actions over the past 18 years especially, the US military has done more to ensure the victory of communism than a hundred Che Guevaras could ever hope to accomplish.
Fucking die.
Eat shit, and die.
This guy should have all of his tuition cost clawed back. If that bankrupts him, so be it. THEN, he should be tried for treason. If found guilty, I’d personally travel to see his hanging in person and dance a happy dance afterwards.
These communist scum don’t know history. They would inflict gulags and poverty on all of the people of this great nation. The reality of communism was written in a fictional working out of truth: “‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’, a proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite.” – quoted from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/all-animals-are-equal–but-some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others.
This incident reminds me of a Randy Stonehill song with the chorus that began, “Can Hell burn hot enough…”
I would imagine if and when things get a bit “hot” in the ol’ U.S. of A, there would be more than a few gentlemen who will remember this “officer’s” actions – and not in a very fond way.
Totally agree with you mate!
There should be an in-depth investigation of this POS. How did he receive an appointment to West Point? This process is extensive and detailed. The people who approved this knew the guy was a nut job Commie. With his arrogant attitude you know he ran his big mouth. Also, why was he not detected and booted long before? How did this idiot make it through four years of West Point?
I will tell you how. Because Obama packed the army (and the navy, and the air force, and the CIA, and the FBI, and DOJ and…..) with liberal Democrat assholes who would not know a Red if he crawled up their butts and wouldn´t care if he did. No liberal Democrat should be allowed to hold ANY position of trust or responsibility in the U.S. government and they absolutely should not be allowed to enlist, much less serve as officers. They are by definition unpatriotic creeps.
During my time in the USMC and another well-known government agency I constantly ran into these bastards. I was utterly mystified. Why in hell did they join? Curiosity? Needed a job? Commie infiltrators (most were too incompetent or cowardly for that to be the case)? It was clear that they had no love of our country, the base motive for most normal USMC members or other national security employees. Were they simply too stupid to understand that their political beliefs were in direct contradiction to everything America stands for?
I am glad, at least, that he was given a discharge under less than honorable conditions. A Bad Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge) or flat out dishonorable discharge (equal to a felony conviction) would have been better.
Whoever the West Point Superintendent is, he or she needs to be booted out right after this Marxist moron.
Marco fucking Rubio should get a Bad Chicken Dinner for his support of amnesty and his support of discharging thousands of good American IT jobs to the little brown men army that American corporations like to treat like slaves for pennies on the dollar. They, like illegal alien invaders, should be sent back to the shitholes from whence they came.
And to comment on the point SS has been making lately, NO, if I lived in Florida I would not vote for that corporate sellout even if he was running against a Marxist thug. A Cuban solitary is too good for that bastard.
It would be enlightening to know which congress critter gave hime the appointment, hmm.
Times change and people change. I doubt if he thought these thoughts or expressed them before he entered West Point. It would be interesting to know which Professors at WP had an influence on him or did he pick up ideas from the nearby NYC community.
Theater has him Chinese then ship him there. He can revolutionize all he wants to there.
And how did he get in and continue to stay there?
Who sponsored him Bernie Sanders?
He is wearing a combat infantry badge, jump wings, and the air assault training badge on his West Point Uniform, which means he must have been enlisted prior service as an infantryman with at least one combat tour, probably with the 101st. Makes this a little more palatable. I know a lot of vets coming back who feel that the system has deeply betrayed them. Anyone disagree?
when this 1st appeared here awhile back it came out that he had done at least 1 tour in afgahnistan,i think as a ranger–
as i recall his dad is an influential republican in the area they are from–
the military did the correct thing but considering that it was bathboy who was pushing it,i actually felt for the guy–
Why this took so long is a mystery and is a disgrace.
If this turd existed during the Vietnam years he would have gotten sent to the jungle ASAP where he’d have gotten fraged by some enlisted folks…..in the first week .
Kids will be kids.
Even the commies with their hands on the control stick of an armed jet overflying Washington.
We are rotting away from within and every move we as a nation make that does not enhance and support American citizens on Main Street exacerbates the degradation of our society !
Low wage hopeless positions for average people , illegals supported while citizens are tossed under the bus while 1% become wealthy beyond belief and the debt is piled on to the backs of future generations ! You wonder where or how socialism and communism continue to arise now in all of our higher learning establishments ?
We are killing our heritage and the American dream for average people thru endless wars and crony capitalism . Our best and brightest see this and sadly have been brainwashed with the solution promoted by acedemics molding many now in control positions . Now we are shocked and surprised ?
Where the hell have we been ?