The Communist not only call for causing extensive chaos in the cities but for putting to the torch, every village, every forest, every field and every barn. The plan is for raging FIRES from one city to the next. The reason? Well, first there's the value of sheer destruction. Secondly, it would force us to deploy our defenses and rescue units over the widest possible area. The Communist point out that as long as our police and National Guard remain concentrated, they're invincible. But if they could be forced to spread out over the entire city and into countryside as well, then they could be picked off from ambush one by one. And the third value of massive fire to the Communist is psychological. The average American they say, soft and decadent when he sees billows of black smoke rising from one horizon to the other, when at night the only light he has to see by is the flickering red from flames leaping into the sky. They become paralyzed with fear and panic. - The Crusaders, Robert F. Williams
