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Sunday, 14 July 2019
quote [ Early this morning around 4am our friend and comrade Will Van Spronsen was shot and killed by the Tacoma police. All we know about what lead up to this comes from the cops, who are notoriously corrupt and unreliable sources for such a narrative. The story that we do have is that Will attempted to set fire to several vehicles, outbuildings and a propane tank outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma which houses hundreds of immigrants awaiting hearings or deportations. He successfully set one vehicle on fire and then exchanged gunfire with Tacoma police officers who fatally shot him. He was pronounced dead on the scene. We find his actions inspiring. The vehicles outside the detention facility are used to forcibly remove people from their homes and deport them, often to situations where they will face severe danger or death. Those vehicles being destroyed is only a start of what is needed. We wish the fires Will set had freed all the inmates and razed the entire Northwest Detention Center to the ground. And we miss our friend and wish from the bottom of our hearts that his action had not ended in his death. ]
Manifesto in extended. Quite the read.
Based on available information, including the police scanner recording, Willem Van Spronsen, the protestor killed, appears to have been targeting not the detention center itself, as has been widely reported in the media, but the parking lot across the street from the detention center which houses the NWDC’s transportation infrastructure. This infrastructure includes a fleet of buses that transports immigrants to be caged at the detention center, and that transports immigrants from the detention center to the Yakima Airport, from which they are deported.
Will Van Spronsen Manifesto pages 1-3. Manifesto as one image in case the facebook link goes away. Transcript: there's wrong and there's right. it's time to take action against the forces of evil. evil says one life is worth less than the other. evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here. evil says the concentration camps should be more humane. beware the centrist. i have a father's broken heart i have a broken down old body and i have an unshakeable abhorrence of unjustice that is what brings me here this is my clear opportunity to try and make a difference, i'd be an ingrate to be waiting for a more obvious invitation i follow three teachers: don pritts(?), my spiritual guide, "love without action is just a word." john brown, my moral guide, "what is needed is action!" emma goldman, my political guide, "if i can't dance i don't want to be in your revolution" i'm a head in the clouds dreamer, i believe in love and redemption. i believe we're going to win. i'm joyfully revolutionary. (we all should have been reading emma goldman in school instead of the jingo drivel we were fed, but i digress.) (we should all be looking at the photos of the YPJ heroes should we falter and think our dreams are impossible, but i double digress, fight me.) in these days of fascist hooligans preying on vulnerable people on our streets, in the name of the state or supported by the state. in these days of highly profitable detention/ concentration camps and a battle over the semantics. in these days of hopelessness, empty pursuit and and endless yearning. we are living in a visible fascism ascendant. (i say visible, because those paying attention watched it survive and thrive under the protection of the state for decades. [see howard zinn: "a people's history of the united states.) now it unabashedly follows its agenda with open and full cooperation from the government, from governments around the world. fascism serves the needs of the state serves the needs of business and at your expense. who benefits? jeff bezos, warren buffet, elon musk, tim cook, bill gates, betsy de vos, george soros, donald trump, and need i go on? let me say it again: rich guys, (who think you're not really all that good,) really dig government, (every government everywhere, including "communist" governments) because they make the rules that make the rich guys richer. simple. don't overthink it. (are you patriots in the back paying attention?) when i was a boy in postwar holland, later france, my head was filled with stories of the rise of fascism in the 30's. i promised myself that i would not be one of those who stands by as neighbors are torn from their homes and imprisoned for somehow being perceived as lesser. you don't have to burn the motherfucker down, but are you just going to stand by? this is the test of our fundamental belief in real freedom and our responsibility to each other. this is a call to patriots, too, to stand against this travesty against everything that you hold sacred. i know you. i know that in your hearts, you see dishonor in these camps. it's time for you, too, to stand up to the money pulling the strings of every goddamn puppet pretending to represent us. i'm a man who loves you all and this spinning ball so much that i'm going to fulfill my childhood promise to myself to be noble. here it is, in these corporate for profit concentration camps. here it is, in brown and non conforming folks afraid to show their faces for fear of the police/ migra/ proud boys/ the boss/beckies... here it is, a planet almost used up by the market's greed. i'm a black and white thinker. detention camps are an abomination. i'm not standing by. i really shouldn't have to say any more than this. i set aside my broken heart and heal the only way i know how- by being useful. i efficiently compartmentalize my pain... and i joyfully go about this work. (to those burdened with the wreckage from my actions, i hope that you will make the best use of that burden.) to my comrades: i regret that i will miss the rest of the revolution. thank you for the honor of having been in your midst. giving me space to be useful, to feel that i was fulfilling my ideals, has been the spiritual pinnacle of my life. doing what i can to help protect my precious and wondrous people is an experience too rich to describe. my trans comrades have transformed me. solidifying my conviction that we will be guided to a dreamed future by those most marginalized among us today. i have dreamted it so clearly that i have no regret for not seeing how it turns out. thank you for bringing me so far along. i am antifa. i stand with my comrades from around the world who act from the love of life in every permutation, comrades who understand that freedom means real freedom for all and life worth living. keep the faith! all power to the people! bella ciao audio manifesto: theSuper8.bandcamp.com don't let your silly government agencies "investigate" this one. i was radicalized in civics class at 13 when we were taught about the electoral college. it was at that point that i decided that the status quo might be a house of cards. further reading confirmed in the positive. i recommend reading! i am not affiliated with any organization, i had disaffiliated from any organizations who disagree with my choice of tactics. the semi automatic weapon i used was a cheap, home built unregistered "ghost" ar15, had six magazines. i strongly encourage comrades and incoming comrades to arm themselves. we are now responsible for defending people from the predatory state. ignore the law in arming yourself, if you have the luxury. i did.
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steele said @ 4:56pm GMT on 15th Jul
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5432 said @ 9:07pm GMT on 14th Jul
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ooo[......7 said @ 10:08pm GMT on 14th Jul
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See, the scary part is when the other side pulls their crazy and actually attacks people instead of belongings.
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