I wonder who was at that Quaker meeting. Do I want useful idiots watched when being used by those who would do harm to Americans? You bet I do. Use the word Quaker and people get a mental picture of the peaceful Pilgrims settling in this country. They need to look beyond that mental image. These people were willingly used during the Viet Nam war and they are just as prone to being used again.
Absolutely. I Googled "radical Quakers" and found this site.
http://www.quaker.org/renewal.html
... while Quaker pacifists were joined by a wide variety of people in constructing the American peace movement of the 1950s and 1960s, this small group welded enormous influence. Ultimately, the notion of prefigurative politics fostered second wave feminism, spurred an alternative culture, and inspired a new environmental movement--demonstrating a continuity among the diverse social movements that have come to comprise American radicalism.
I don't know if this is the same bunch that was discussed on the Today Show, but if so, they sound like Socialists and Commies in Quaker clothing.