Army Officer Who Posted ‘Communism Will Win’ Inspired By Chelsea Manning, Posted Vile Comments About Mattis
Nickarama 09:30am September 28, 2017
After Lt. Spenser Rapone’s Twitter account went viral on Monday, he found himself in a lot of trouble.
Rapone had posted a tweet in support of Colin Kaepernick, with the hashtag ‘Veterans for Kaepernick.’
But the problem was the picture of him in uniform at West Point with the words “Communism will win” inside his cap.
And if that wasn’t enough, he added this for good measure, he posted a picture showing he had a Che Guevara t-shirt under his uniform, with the words ‘hasta la victoria siempre’ in the tweet.
The Army is now investigating Rapone.
Since then other troubling tweets have come to light.
From Daily Caller:
In a tweet dated June 8, 2017, Rapone tweeted at a podcaster, stating: “Was so pumped for you to go in on Mattis on the latest ep. Definitely the most vile, evil $#@! in the current administration.”
Not only that, but Rapone also attacked Vice President Mike Pence in a tweet from August: “Holy s*** what world do these people live in? “Mediocre and conservative?” Pence is a $#@!ing medieval, cold-blooded killer.”
According to Article 88, “Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
Rapone also identified his reason for staying in the military despite being a Communist and it was, to say the least, troubling.
His motivation involved Chelsea Manning.
Those motivations included Manning’s decision to leak national security documents to WikiLeaks.
Notably, Manning was also part of the 10th Mountain Division.
“I’m currently an infantry officer at Ft. Drum, NY assigned to the same brigade that she was while enlisted,” Rapone wrote in a post. “Every single day I think of the contradictions of being a communist while in this organization, and her courage and tenacity gives me strength to continue the long march through the institutions.”
What does ‘long march through the institutions’ mean?
The “long march” comment refers to a strategy of institutional infiltration and subversion coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke but originally developed by Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist thinker whose thought developed in the wake of the failure of economic determinism to bring about a revolution.
He also spoke of developing a new manual on guerrilla warfare.
“I read Che’s Guerrilla Warfare (★★★★) a month or two back,” Rapone said early this year. “An essential text, although, as Che would say, specific to a certain historical context. I’d suggest Marighella’s Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla (★★★★) after finishing Che’s work. I myself need to read Mao’s On Guerrilla Warfare here soon enough. But, I suppose, more than anything else, the task at hand for all of us is to produce our own text on guerrilla warfare, in the days ahead, yes?”
Scary stuff that this character is a serving military officer.
The military has different options as to how to approach him.
But there’s no way you can trust having him serve and possibly put people in danger.
So hopefully they show him the door.
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