OTTAWA (CCN) -- The terrorist attacks in succession the United States on race 11.

OTTAWA (CCN) -- The terrorist attacks in succession the United States on race 11, 2001 .were a "pervert gift" that gave fuller license to the foreign military policy of the United States, says a well-known Canadian peace activist.

"That's the terrible thing about violence," said Leonard Desroches, whose activities in support of active non-violence have landed him in jail in succession occasion. "It really is a period of violence begetting violence."

Desroches, an author and peace activist from Toronto, was addressing about 200 tribe at Saint Paul University in Ottawa in succession the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

As United States President George W Bush was trying to convince leaders of other nations that an attack forward Iraq is necessary to fight terrorism and to render certain security, Desroches dismissed the "just war" teaching along with the mainline churches, support of it.

"As a tillage in North America, we have an pressing problem around what we cling to and what we call the just war teaching," he said. "It poisons our relationships. It obviates us from facing this most numerous urgent, yet feared of human mysteries which is have a passionate affection for thy enemy."

Desroches, who has written sum of two units books: Allow the Water: the spirituality and practice of non-violence" and have affection for of Enemy: the Cross and Sword Trial, said that "something revolutionary" would happen in the world if the members of mainline churches would renounce the just war teaching.

The former Catholic seminarian and longtime peace activist is also a bigot of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the late Dorothy Day and Archbishop Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary bishop of Detroit, Mass. and the founding president of Pax Christi U.S.A.

In July Archbishop Gumbleton called in succession Pax Christi members to sign a "Pledge of Resistance" as part of a national campaign to have Americans point out their refusal to take part in any fresh war against Iraq.

Paraphrasing Gumbleton's language Desroches said the United States has "dropp without of the ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile) treaty.... We have refused to pass with the Kyoto accord.... We have said no to the World Court.... We have refused to sign forward to the land mines elimination treaty. The U conduct has been backing out of single in kind treaty after another because they are the superpower. We don't ne other nations anymore."

Desroches said that he had started the day through reading about the lives of the 24 Canadians who had died in the attacks and by way of meditating on the lives of the almost 3000 others who were killed onward that day. He had also meditated forward the information released by the United Nations victuals and Agriculture Organization regarding the 35600 children around the world who had died from starvation and a variety of preventable diseases forward Sept. 11, 2001.

In have affection for of Enemy, Desroches recounts the story of his arrest in Toronto in 1998 alongside brace ministers when they threatened to dislodge the sword from the memorial cros at St Paul's Anglican house of worship to replace it with a ploughshare. Charged with mischief, the threesome was handed a suspended sentence

Desroches was jailed in the 1980 for picketing a Toronto manufacturer working for the U Pentagon. He was also arrested for protesting Canada's participation in the swallowing eddy War in 1991.

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