Federal courts have recognized the uniqueness of the military and the need to limit these freedoms. In Parker v. Levy, 417 US 733, in 1974 the court said: "The different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of (First Amendment) protections."
But it is all you can be mercenary and brainwashing uniformed disservices.
The codes, the sickness of drill Sgt.s demanding oral sex from male and female recruits. Code of silence. Crimes, man, the military is.
Ahh, told to shoot anyone in a room, even with hands up in the air, well well, Fallujah, and those Marines were cranked up on speed and juiced up on steroids, you betcha, the mercenary soldiers of fortune US military is one fucking cartel protection racket, so, freedom of speech? The right to have indpendent ideas?
Remember?
A West Point cadet who wore a Che Guevara T-shirt to his graduation and posted a message online saying “communism will win” has been discharged from the US army.
The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his May 2016 West Point graduation were meant to shock: in one, he opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a red image of the socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips over his cap to reveal the hand-scrawled message: “Communism will win.”
The images, posted later in 2017, drew vitriol and even death threats. Now the second lieutenant who became known as the “commie cadet” is out of the army with an other-than-honorable discharge.
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“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” the 26-year-old said. “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.”
Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an army ranger in Afghanistan before he was accepted into the US Military Academy. And those views only hardened during his studies of history as one of the academy’s “Long Gray Line”.
He explained that he took the offending selfies at his May 2016 West Point graduation ceremony and kept them to himself until last September, when he tweeted them in solidarity with the NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was taking heat for kneeling for the national anthem to raise awareness of racism.
Many other military personnel also tweeted in favor of Kaepernick, although most were supporting free speech, not communism.
West Point released a statement after Rapone posted the photos, saying his actions “in no way reflect the values of the US Military Academy or the US Army”. And the US senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, called on the secretary of the army to remove Rapone from the officer ranks.
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Q: Why go into the army in the first place?
A: At a young age, you’re inundated with propaganda and patriotism, and I thought I could make a difference joining the Army. But then I got deployed to Afghanistan, and my experience overseas showed me that if anything, I was making a difference for those with power and wealth. In fact, I didn’t really find what we were being told in America to be reflective of what was really going on in Afghanistan. In the simplest of terms, I felt like we were the big bully and the purveyor of violence. I was just using all of this expensive equipment in one of the poorest places on earth to serve the interests of a capitalist class.
Q: But you felt like you couldn’t do anything about what you were experiencing.
A: At the time, I was a 19-year-old private, so I feel like I couldn’t voice anything without being told, “Shut the fuck up and execute your task.” But I guess I was slowly radicalizing. I wasn’t quite a socialist yet, but I knew I was against the war. I still had this liberal idea that I could affect change from the inside, so I applied and got accepted to West Point and thought, “I won’t fail my men, like leadership failed me.
Soon after getting to West Point, I saw that this was a structural problem across the military and that the military itself, its material relation to power, serves the capitalist class. At West Point, I realized I might be a socialist. So, I started reading theory. I was a history major, and I studied Middle Eastern history specifically. When you study the role of the United States and the British and the French pre-dating them, you start to understand what imperialism really is. You start to see why these wars are endless. They’re designed to be profitable. They’re not designed to achieve any sort of objective.
But I was kind of stuck at that point because after your second year, you have to do what’s called “affirmation.” If I dropped at that point, I would either be kicked back into the enlisted ranks or be forced to find a way to pay for West Point. I graduated and went to officer training, but once Trump got elected, I thought this was a particular political moment when I was like, “Ok, now more than ever, it would be inauthentic of me to continue.”
So I started to think of what I could do and then 10 months after Trump was elected, Colin Kaepernick lost his job essentially. He lost his career for speaking truth to power. I figured if he could put his skin in the game on a national stage, then I could do my small part and it kind of took off from there.
Q: Could you explain the type of discharge they gave you?
A: It’s the worst administrative discharge. Obviously this didn’t go to court martial. My attorney told me they wanted to get a pound of flesh from me, but I didn’t do anything illegal. It’s not illegal to be a communist in the military, but since I was in uniform, and in their mind, making a political statement and posted on social media, they lumped it all together as this nebulous “unbecoming conduct” charge and said I was advocating for violence.
The idea of banning is preposterous. It is based on the idea of authority. When someone is put above someone else, or below, this makes for a very sick society. Peer-to-Peer is how we need to move forward.
That is one reason I say having presidents is all old paradigm. We need to move on to a new paradigm now becuse all the presidents in the world have done worse and worse for us. When will it be evident that this system results in sh!t?
Between transgenderism, treating veterans of previous wars like garbage thrown out in the streets, and DEI, morale in the US military is probably at a historical low.
Selectively "Banning" some types of "Extremism" but not others will only make things worse.
The only people who remain in such environments are usually mercenaries, people who are just there for the $$$.
Soldiers such as this won't die or even stand in harms way to protect america. Any military 1/10th or 1/100th the size fighting with principle will win against an opponent with poor morale.
If World War 3 were ever to go "kinetic" into a hot war, the US has already lost for this reason.
How ironic that the examples and definitions re: extremism are actions the government has, does and will commit against the people every day.
Federal courts have recognized the uniqueness of the military and the need to limit these freedoms. In Parker v. Levy, 417 US 733, in 1974 the court said: "The different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of (First Amendment) protections."
But it is all you can be mercenary and brainwashing uniformed disservices.
The codes, the sickness of drill Sgt.s demanding oral sex from male and female recruits. Code of silence. Crimes, man, the military is.
Ahh, told to shoot anyone in a room, even with hands up in the air, well well, Fallujah, and those Marines were cranked up on speed and juiced up on steroids, you betcha, the mercenary soldiers of fortune US military is one fucking cartel protection racket, so, freedom of speech? The right to have indpendent ideas?
Remember?
A West Point cadet who wore a Che Guevara T-shirt to his graduation and posted a message online saying “communism will win” has been discharged from the US army.
The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his May 2016 West Point graduation were meant to shock: in one, he opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a red image of the socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips over his cap to reveal the hand-scrawled message: “Communism will win.”
The images, posted later in 2017, drew vitriol and even death threats. Now the second lieutenant who became known as the “commie cadet” is out of the army with an other-than-honorable discharge.
...
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” the 26-year-old said. “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.”
Rapone said his journey to communism grew out of his experiences as an army ranger in Afghanistan before he was accepted into the US Military Academy. And those views only hardened during his studies of history as one of the academy’s “Long Gray Line”.
He explained that he took the offending selfies at his May 2016 West Point graduation ceremony and kept them to himself until last September, when he tweeted them in solidarity with the NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was taking heat for kneeling for the national anthem to raise awareness of racism.
Many other military personnel also tweeted in favor of Kaepernick, although most were supporting free speech, not communism.
West Point released a statement after Rapone posted the photos, saying his actions “in no way reflect the values of the US Military Academy or the US Army”. And the US senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, called on the secretary of the army to remove Rapone from the officer ranks.
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Q: Why go into the army in the first place?
A: At a young age, you’re inundated with propaganda and patriotism, and I thought I could make a difference joining the Army. But then I got deployed to Afghanistan, and my experience overseas showed me that if anything, I was making a difference for those with power and wealth. In fact, I didn’t really find what we were being told in America to be reflective of what was really going on in Afghanistan. In the simplest of terms, I felt like we were the big bully and the purveyor of violence. I was just using all of this expensive equipment in one of the poorest places on earth to serve the interests of a capitalist class.
Q: But you felt like you couldn’t do anything about what you were experiencing.
A: At the time, I was a 19-year-old private, so I feel like I couldn’t voice anything without being told, “Shut the fuck up and execute your task.” But I guess I was slowly radicalizing. I wasn’t quite a socialist yet, but I knew I was against the war. I still had this liberal idea that I could affect change from the inside, so I applied and got accepted to West Point and thought, “I won’t fail my men, like leadership failed me.
Soon after getting to West Point, I saw that this was a structural problem across the military and that the military itself, its material relation to power, serves the capitalist class. At West Point, I realized I might be a socialist. So, I started reading theory. I was a history major, and I studied Middle Eastern history specifically. When you study the role of the United States and the British and the French pre-dating them, you start to understand what imperialism really is. You start to see why these wars are endless. They’re designed to be profitable. They’re not designed to achieve any sort of objective.
But I was kind of stuck at that point because after your second year, you have to do what’s called “affirmation.” If I dropped at that point, I would either be kicked back into the enlisted ranks or be forced to find a way to pay for West Point. I graduated and went to officer training, but once Trump got elected, I thought this was a particular political moment when I was like, “Ok, now more than ever, it would be inauthentic of me to continue.”
So I started to think of what I could do and then 10 months after Trump was elected, Colin Kaepernick lost his job essentially. He lost his career for speaking truth to power. I figured if he could put his skin in the game on a national stage, then I could do my small part and it kind of took off from there.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/commie-cadet-spenser-rapone-socialism-dsa-army-military
Q: Could you explain the type of discharge they gave you?
A: It’s the worst administrative discharge. Obviously this didn’t go to court martial. My attorney told me they wanted to get a pound of flesh from me, but I didn’t do anything illegal. It’s not illegal to be a communist in the military, but since I was in uniform, and in their mind, making a political statement and posted on social media, they lumped it all together as this nebulous “unbecoming conduct” charge and said I was advocating for violence.
The idea of banning is preposterous. It is based on the idea of authority. When someone is put above someone else, or below, this makes for a very sick society. Peer-to-Peer is how we need to move forward.
That is one reason I say having presidents is all old paradigm. We need to move on to a new paradigm now becuse all the presidents in the world have done worse and worse for us. When will it be evident that this system results in sh!t?
What an absolute contortion of a directive. The military is actually banning itself out of existence!
Between transgenderism, treating veterans of previous wars like garbage thrown out in the streets, and DEI, morale in the US military is probably at a historical low.
Selectively "Banning" some types of "Extremism" but not others will only make things worse.
The only people who remain in such environments are usually mercenaries, people who are just there for the $$$.
Soldiers such as this won't die or even stand in harms way to protect america. Any military 1/10th or 1/100th the size fighting with principle will win against an opponent with poor morale.
If World War 3 were ever to go "kinetic" into a hot war, the US has already lost for this reason.