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Title: Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement Author: Willem Van Spronsen Date: July 14th 2019 Language: en Topics: propaganda of the deed, action Source: retrieved on July 16th 2019 from https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/14/on-willem-van-spronsens-action-against-the-northwest-detention-center-in-tacoma-including-the-full-text-of-his-final-statement
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 another.
Evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here.
Evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary.
The handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane.
Beware the centrist.
I have a father’s broken heart
I have a broken down body
And I have an unshakable abhorrence for injustice
That is what brings me here.
This is my clear opportunity to try to 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 YPG 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 in our
streets, in the name of the state or supported and defended 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 empty yearning,
We are living in 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 rich guys richer.
Simple.
Don’t overthink it.
(Are you patriots in the back paying attention?)
When I was a boy, in post-war Holland, later France, my head was filled
with stories of the rise of fascism in the ’30s. 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 going to just
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 the 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 profitconcentration 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 I 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 me 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 defend 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-of future by those most marginalized among
us today. I have dreamed 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 comrades around the world who act from the
love of life in every permutation. Comrades who understand that freedom
means real freedom for all and a life worth living.
Keep the faith!
All power to the people!
Bella ciao.
Don’t let your silly government agencies spend money “investigating”
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 highly recommend reading!
I am not affiliated with any organization, I have disaffiliated from any
organizations who disagree with my choice of tactics.
The semi-automatic weapon I used was a cheap, home-built unregistered
“ghost” AR-15, it 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.