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Attacker on Tacoma ICE Detention Center Identified as “anarchist and antifascist”
Legal Insurrection ^ | July 13, 2019 | William A Jacobson

Posted on 07/13/2019 11:15:35 PM PDT by House Atreides

Willem Van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, Washington, attacked an ICE Detention Center in Tacoma earlier today with incendiary devices and while armed with a rifle. He was killed in a shootout with police.

The Seattle Times reports that Van Spronsen was involved in previous protests and violence at the center, and was described by a friend as :

Deb Bartley, a friend of Van Spronsen’s for about 20 years, described him as an anarchist and antifascist, and believes his attack on the detention center intending to provoke a fatal conflict.

“He was ready to end it,” Bartley said. “I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs … I know he went down there knowing he was going to die.”

She and other friends of Van Spronsen got letters in the mail “just saying goodbye.” He also wrote what she referred to as a manifesto, which she declined to discuss in detail but predicted would be taken by authorities….

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anarchist; anarchists; antifa; antifascist; debbartley; detentioncenter; ice; immigration; leftwingnuts; obamasfault; oldhippie; tacoma; terrorism; terrorist; typicaldemocrat; vanspronsen; vashonisland; violence; washington; willemvanspronsen
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To: House Atreides

A supposed “anti-fascist” who was, in reality, a fascist. These Brownshirts of the Left must be exposed for what they are. Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization.

The rhetoric of AOC and the Dem presidential candidates is encouraging attacks against ICE and the BP. They are dangerous.


81 posted on 07/14/2019 4:40:38 AM PDT by kabar
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To: monkeyshine

So, did anything worth all these words actually happen

In the overall scheme of things did he matter at all?


82 posted on 07/14/2019 4:49:57 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: bert
Forgive me if I add a thought that was given by someone else. I didn't read the entire thread. It occurs to me that this fool will soon be the martyr for the radical left. Could be very similar to what Horst Wessal was to the Nazis. They even had their party anthem as a tribute to Wessal, who was nothing but a street thug who died in a fight with Communists. Those who are history minded might comment on this.

So yes, he might come to matter a great deal.

83 posted on 07/14/2019 5:04:20 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: House Atreides

Are there non-violent islamists? Yes
Are there non-violent Democrats? Yes

But those non-violent people will stand by while the growing number of violent ones destroy each and every one of us.


84 posted on 07/14/2019 5:04:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

The trial will not be long.


85 posted on 07/14/2019 5:05:29 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: House Atreides

Communist, the rest is squid ink BS, the end state with these clowns is communism. Communism is evil except to the left and their neo-con friends (Trotskyites)


86 posted on 07/14/2019 5:10:56 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Moonman62
So Antifa is an anarchist ORGANIZATION.
They really don't get it.
Wannabe's...

87 posted on 07/14/2019 5:13:32 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: House Atreides

Antifa Democratic


88 posted on 07/14/2019 5:13:53 AM PDT by cp124 (I didnÂ’t leave America, it left me.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“He lived utterly without the hope of Christ, believing that salvation would come when those he hated were destroyed.“

Well put. It seems the only joy these guys/leftists/proggies have is in destroying those that disagree with them. And in their meetings where they communally badmouth everything, too.


89 posted on 07/14/2019 5:30:12 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: cp124

He’s obviously a half if not fully crazy person with violent tendencies which may have been stoked by the rhetoric of phony leftists like the hag Elizabeth Warren pushing for a “commission” to investigate US “crimes” on the border. Instead, we need an investigation to find affirmative action cheats who misrepresent themselves as something they are not to get ahead in life. This would include “native American” Harvard law professors.


90 posted on 07/14/2019 5:32:52 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Louis Foxwell

They have bought the lie they evolved from animals and now we are shocked when they act like animals.
Just take molecular science alone.. impossible for evolution, yet the lies continue to pushed and violently excludes any other possibility. Of course, these are the same science teachers that think women have Y chromosomes.
This country can only be saved by boldness in prayer and returning to our foundational truths.
Prepare your Christian brothers and sisters.


91 posted on 07/14/2019 5:35:34 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
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To: Jonty30

Bingo. They don’t belong in power they belong in the ground.


92 posted on 07/14/2019 5:55:05 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SaveFerris

There are a lot more like him...who need to meet their end.


93 posted on 07/14/2019 6:39:28 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: House Atreides

Sounds like another story the media will bury unless they find a MAGA hat in his home. Sounds like a typical antifa thug.


94 posted on 07/14/2019 6:50:18 AM PDT by Spok
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To: House Atreides

“I know he went down there knowing he was going to die.”

At least he died doing something he loved.

L


95 posted on 07/14/2019 6:52:40 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: House Atreides

Let’s see how WA handles this vs OR. Oh, wait ....


96 posted on 07/14/2019 6:56:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Mark17

***only if they are the ones doing the controlling.***

And I bet each one of them thinks HE will be TOP DOG when they “take over”.


97 posted on 07/14/2019 7:34:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Of course they do!
They all see themselves as “heroes of the people manning the barricades” like in “Le Misérables”!

All Lenins or Ches, etc. saving the world from the unwashed, unlearned (today unwoke!) Bourgeoise. Of course now it even more specific they concentrate their ire on white heterosexual males.


98 posted on 07/14/2019 7:55:35 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Trump20162020
That's him. Here's a video of him:

Crappy guitar player with rudimentary skills. 69 years and that's the best that he could do?

99 posted on 07/14/2019 8:19:53 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: House Atreides

May he Rot in Hell with Stalin, Hitler, Mohammad and other self-righteous murderous thugs.


100 posted on 07/14/2019 9:59:35 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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