And it looks like this young lieutenant is going to possibly be in even hotter water, as evidence has surfaced that he was inspired to infiltrate the military by Bradley (Chelsea) Manning's actions.
Seems 2LT Spenser Rapone, in a Reddit post referencing Manning, stated a few of his own motivations for entering and then staying in the military as well as what he wanted to accomplish once he was commissioned an officer and sent to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (2nd Brigade Combat Team) at Fort Drum, NY. Manning had also been a member of the 10th Mountain Division.
In Rapone's words:
“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.
"The long march..." remark refers to a strategy espoused by Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci, and it advocates for communist adherents to infiltrate various institutions of the state (in this case, the US Army and US military) and engage in subversive activities in order to bring those institutions down.
It seems a fellow Reddit user, who was also a communist, cautioned 2LT Rapone to not be so open about where he was stationed. Rapone's reply?
“I know comrade, but I feel like we should not hide any longer,” Rapone answered.
He may have also been genuinely interested in revolutionary activities against the United States, given this remark:
“I read Che’s Guerrilla Warfare a month or two back. 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?”
2LT Rapone sure sounds to me like a true believer dedicated to the communist overthrow of the United States.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Seems 2LT Spenser Rapone, in a Reddit post referencing Manning, stated a few of his own motivations for entering and then staying in the military as well as what he wanted to accomplish once he was commissioned an officer and sent to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (2nd Brigade Combat Team) at Fort Drum, NY. Manning had also been a member of the 10th Mountain Division.
In Rapone's words:
“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.
"The long march..." remark refers to a strategy espoused by Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci, and it advocates for communist adherents to infiltrate various institutions of the state (in this case, the US Army and US military) and engage in subversive activities in order to bring those institutions down.
It seems a fellow Reddit user, who was also a communist, cautioned 2LT Rapone to not be so open about where he was stationed. Rapone's reply?
“I know comrade, but I feel like we should not hide any longer,” Rapone answered.
He may have also been genuinely interested in revolutionary activities against the United States, given this remark:
“I read Che’s Guerrilla Warfare a month or two back. 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?”
2LT Rapone sure sounds to me like a true believer dedicated to the communist overthrow of the United States.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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big kahuna: Sep 28, 17 17:30