Editing Willem van Spronsen (section)

==Life==
Willem van Spronsen was born in the Netherlands, and later moved to France; as a child in those countries, he heard stories about Fascist movements during the 30s. At some time before he was 13, he moved to the United States. In his civics classes there, he started questioning the US political system; this is likely what brought him to anarchism.

Later, Van Spronsen moved to Vashon, Washington, a Seattle-Tacoma suburb on an island in Puget Sound. In addition to being a self-employed contractor, he wrote and performed several songs under the name Super8 which he uploaded to Bandcamp(these are no longer available) and performed in various venues in the area. One of these songs, "I Was a Girl" appears to be related to a transgender man he knew.

In March of 2013, his second wife left him and accused him of domestic violence, preventing him from seeing their son. His daughter made a crowdfunding page in response; at the time of the firebombing this divorce was still going on.