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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: SaveFerris

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaOcS6Izy2o


61 posted on 07/14/2019 2:45:56 AM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I think Pelosi and AOC’s comments incited this. Time to arrest them and anyone who is seditious.


62 posted on 07/14/2019 2:53:30 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

Unfortunately, that might include upwards of 100 million in this nation alone.


63 posted on 07/14/2019 2:59:22 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: House Atreides

I really don’t think they have long range plans, they are just addicted to hate porn.


64 posted on 07/14/2019 3:00:00 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

So be it! think its in the 10s of millions not quite that much. At the most 50 million. Still alot of folks.


65 posted on 07/14/2019 3:08:47 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

Every person who voted for the Butcheress of Benghazi and the Stalinist Demonrats in Congress and elsewhere.


66 posted on 07/14/2019 3:13:47 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: House Atreides

More proof that leftists are mentally insane and want you dead. Buy guns and ammo, folks.

JoMa


67 posted on 07/14/2019 3:16:40 AM PDT by joma89
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yep! Spare none and show no mercy!


68 posted on 07/14/2019 3:17:03 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

What happened to Flower Power?


The fantasy died at Kent State


69 posted on 07/14/2019 3:17:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DarthVader

I hope that this guy’s actions makes the news big time. Although it probably won’t. I am guessing that many people think that the Anarchists/”Antifa” are just a mob of protestors. Oh, they might throw a rock at a window once in awhile - but they really are just about yelling and waving banners.

This guy shows what many of their ilk really want. Death. Revolution. Anarchy. While it might be their ultimate goal, death can happen during any protest. The recent ones in Portland - severe injuries. Might an inch, or 10 ft-lbs have meant death?


70 posted on 07/14/2019 3:17:42 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: 21twelve

I think when the Deep State destruction phase begins these Antifa fascists and others will get violent. Then the show begins.


71 posted on 07/14/2019 3:21:34 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: House Atreides

Old Soy, by the looks of him, probably lobbed a mason jar with lawnmower gas and never got the safety off before he received 3 in the hat ...


72 posted on 07/14/2019 3:35:57 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Wilhelm Tell

The key is that both the communists and the anarchists figure they can use one another for their own purposes, and each figures they’ll be the one to win in the end.


73 posted on 07/14/2019 3:35:59 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: PIF

It is pushing up daisies.


74 posted on 07/14/2019 3:37:04 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Trump20162020

SO BAD. Why couldn’t the police have taken him out during his song? And then auctioned off that Gretsch for the Widows & Orphans Fund?


75 posted on 07/14/2019 3:39:25 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: House Atreides

Another story that will be dropped down the memory hole never to see the light of day again.


76 posted on 07/14/2019 3:49:35 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

A shocking number of them are trust fund babies.
This explains a lot.
Their tantrums are really nothing more than a decades-long teenage rebellion against Daddy, but it’s necessarily projected outward, onto the larger “system” of eeeeeevil capitalism, because they need to remain on good terms with Daddy & Daddy’s money.
After all, getting arrested in all those protests requires bail.


77 posted on 07/14/2019 3:52:34 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: mumblypeg

If you think of it as a way to put a hedge around your liberal privilege, you’ll be closer to the truth as to what is going on.


78 posted on 07/14/2019 4:06:51 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: mumblypeg

Liberals are just following the great social Democrat, Josef Goebbels, in working ever so slow to put a liberal hierarchy in society and to take away the rights of the citizen in such a slow manner that it was imperceptible.


79 posted on 07/14/2019 4:09:44 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: House Atreides

The increased numbers in background checks are these guys. I had a far leftist ask me about teaching them to shoot.
Just like the sudden surge of border crossings, someone is funding this.
We are in serious trouble.


80 posted on 07/14/2019 4:19:23 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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