(SNIP)The alliance with Communists would bear much fruit in the AFSC's propaganda, as well. In the 1972 AFSC pamphlet Non-Violence: Not First For Export, author John Bristol explicitly describes the feelings that the AFSC has for the West in general, and America in particular. In a passage forgiving terrorists for their violent ways, Bristol asserts that "terrorism...repeatedly...is used to signify violent action on the part of oppressed peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America or within the black ghettos of America, as they take up the weapons of violence in a desperate effort to wrest for themselves the freedom and justice denied them by the systems that presently control their lives." But who exactly is the cause of the 'system' terrorists are trying to overthrow? Bristol places the blame squarely at the feet of the West. "What millions of middle-class and other non-poor fail to realize is that they are themselves accomplices each day in meeting [sic.] out inhuman, all-pervading violence upon their fellows."
Bristol concludes that the AFSC is uninterested in promoting world peace as long as the United States has any sort of power, and does not apply its own standards to other nations. "Instead of trying to devise non-violent strategy and tactics for revolutionaries in other lands, we will bend every effort to defuse militarism in our own land and to secure the withdrawal of American economic investment in oppressive regimes in other parts of the world"
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Whoa! That sort of rhetoric sounds just like Marxist tripe.
I've got news for these leftist, pacifist idiots--the blood-thirsty, violence-loving cretins who flew the planes into the WTC were not oppressed. They all came from wealthy, educated backgrounds. They were religious fanatics who wage war--yeah, WAR!--against all non-Muslims and want barbaric, 7th Century Islam to rule the world. Oh, and they also wanted their fair share of virgins (and young boys "like pearls") in paradise to service them through eternity.