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Burning Hate: Fears and Loathing in Charlottesville
Molly Conger has published a new piece about one of the fascists who was at the Unite the Right rally here. He has been arrested for actions at the torch rally the night before the rally (August 11, 2017). The piece gives background for this person.
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William Henry Fears IV was not hard to find when Albemarle County deputies flew south to effect extradition last week. He was waiting for them in Dalhart, a medium-security men's prison in the Texas panhandle where's been since he pleaded guilty in 2019 to choking an ex-girlfriend. At his last parole hearing in September 2022, the Texas parole board denied early release, citing his criminal history, which includes a conviction for aggravated kidnapping. In 2009, a 22 year old Fears drove to the University of Texas at Tyler and abducted his 18 year old ex-girlfriend from her dormitory at knifepoint and stabbed her repeatedly.
It was during that first prison term, Fears claims, that he became radicalized, later telling a reporter, "I don’t think any race experiences racism in the modern world the way that white people do in a jail." Shortly after serving most of that seven year sentence, William Fears made the two hour drive from his mother's house in Pasadena, TX to see Richard Spencer, a rising star of the new Alt-Right movement, speak at Texas A&M in December 2016.
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William Henry Fears IV was not hard to find when Albemarle County deputies flew south to effect extradition last week. He was waiting for them in Dalhart, a medium-security men's prison in the Texas panhandle where's been since he pleaded guilty in 2019 to choking an ex-girlfriend. At his last parole hearing in September 2022, the Texas parole board denied early release, citing his criminal history, which includes a conviction for aggravated kidnapping. In 2009, a 22 year old Fears drove to the University of Texas at Tyler and abducted his 18 year old ex-girlfriend from her dormitory at knifepoint and stabbed her repeatedly.
It was during that first prison term, Fears claims, that he became radicalized, later telling a reporter, "I don’t think any race experiences racism in the modern world the way that white people do in a jail." Shortly after serving most of that seven year sentence, William Fears made the two hour drive from his mother's house in Pasadena, TX to see Richard Spencer, a rising star of the new Alt-Right movement, speak at Texas A&M in December 2016.
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It may be read in full at https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-fears-and-loathing with video clips and photos as well.
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