The American Civil War ignited less than two years later. In death, he became a symbolic martyr to militant abolitionists. Though Brown refused to surrender, he was beaten into submission by government soldiers, then hastily tried and hanged. Brown led a small group of volunteers in a raid on the government armory in town they were ultimately trapped inside a single building, surrounded and outnumbered. In fact, a better “terrorist” - or insurrectionist - for comprehending Van Spronsen’s actions is John Brown, the white abolitionist who famously tried and failed to launch an anti-slavery rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Moderate and right-wing pundits will surely construe Van Spronsen’s actions as a kind of terrorist attack, analogous to the September 11 attacks and further proof that radical leftists like Van Spronsen are “the real fascists.” I really shouldn’t have to say any more than this.” 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 lesser. “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. “We are living in visible fascism ascendant,” he wrote. In his manifesto, Van Spronsen said that his action was in opposition to American concentration camps and fascism more generally. No one except Van Spronsen - shot and killed by police - was physically harmed. According to police statements published in various media, Van Spronsen was in a parking area attempting to damage vehicles used to facilitate prisoner transport, carrying a rifle and throwing “incendiary devices” near a propane tank. In the early morning of July 13, Tacoma police shot and killed Seattle-area man Willem Van Spronsen at the Northwest Detention Center, where the federal government imprisons refugees awaiting deportation.
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