[Aquinasfan]

Look, I don't know if or why surveillance was conducted of the Quakers. But when vanden Heuvel lumped them in with the Catholic Workers, she seriously overplayed her hand.

Aren't Quaker peaceniks just as nutty?

[SamuraiScot]

"Look, I don't know if or why surveillance was conducted of the Quakers. But when vanden Heuvel lumped them in with the Catholic Workers, she seriously overplayed her hand."

Aren't Quaker peaceniks just as nutty?

You bet. It wouldn't be surprising at all to find that people in Quaker groups had connections with those collaborating with enemy operatives. It was the case in earlier wars.

During the Vietnam War, Quakerism was very fashionable because it could get you conscientious objector status, and hence out of the draft. So a tremendous number of Lefties came into the movement, which has been more political than religious in flavor in many regions for a half-century.

The Quakers and related outfits, such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation, were stocked with Lefties anyway because Quakers in this country are pretty exclusively wealthy.

There was heavy infiltration by the KGB into all these organizations, and they tend to be lunatic anti-American to this day.