"Many people (me included) wondered how it was that the openly-Communist Spenser Rapone was allowed to graduate from West Point.
It’s not as though Rapone was underground with his point of view as a proud Communist.
And West Point isn’t Evergreen State College—is it?
Now the professor who had originally reported Rapone to West Point authorities (to no avail), retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington, has issued an open letter to West Point graduates with a word—actually, many words—of explanation:
Here is the text of the letter.
After you’ve read it, you will understand that Rapone didn’t fall through the cracks.
There weren’t any cracks.
If what Heffington says it’s the truth—and I’m definitely inclined to believe it—then West Point has apparently become a standardless, permissive, PC, open (and perhaps bottomless) pit.
Honor hearings are rarely scheduled and reports of honor infractions actively discouraged, and students are rarely disciplined for violations even when admittedly guilty.
Academic standards are non-existent; it seems nearly impossible to flunk out.
Heffinton isn’t sure when all this started—he thinks about 10 years ago, but my guess is that it began at some point early in the Obama years, with their emphasis on a PC military..."
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