Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131101010653/@comment-7472785-20131103071537

Remember the VNN broadcast: "The once peaceful organisation..."

Old time members would have joined out of idealism and in peaceful pursuit of their goals. It seems that the radicalisation is fairly recent. In history, such radical factions within  a greater group were the loudest and most active, but not the majority of members - until such time they became the majority by weeding out the 'non-believers' in the cause.

Blake herself, and her mentor, who led her to her intellectual education, probably were early members and would know that the radical faction is not all White Fang.