[991] in peace2
Re: Petition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Russell)
Mon Sep 17 09:21:07 2001
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From: Richard Russell <rrussell@MIT.EDU>
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Better than signing a petition would be to send a letter or email to your
elected representatives and the below leaders. You can even cut and paste
the words from the petition--they'll have a lot more impact if you take the
extra 10 minutes to make them part of an individual communication.
--Richard
>>
>> What follows is a petition that will be forwarded to President
>> Bush, and other world
>> leaders, urging them to avoid war as a response to the terrorist attacks
>against the
>> World Trade Center and the Pentagon this week. Please read it, sign
>> it at:
>>
>> http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition
>>
>> and forward the link to as many people as possible, as quickly as
>> possible. We must circulate this quickly if it is to have any
>> effect.
>>
>>The Petition
>>
>> We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of the United States of
>America and of countries
>> around the world, appeal to the President of The United States, George W.
>Bush; to the
>> NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson; to the President of the European
>Union,
>> Romano Prodi; and to all leaders internationally to use moderation and
>restraint in responding
>> to the recent terrorist attacks against the United States. We implore the
>powers that be to
>> use, wherever possible, international judicial institutions and
>international human rights law to
>> bring to justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than the
>instruments of war, violence
>> or destruction.
>>
>> Furthermore, we assert that the government of a nation must be presumed
>separate and
>> distinct from any terrorist group that may operate within its borders,
>and therefore cannot be
>> held unduly accountable for the latter's crimes. It follows that the
>government of a particular
>> nation should not be condemned for the recent attack without compelling
>evidence of its
>> cooperation and complicity with those individuals who actually committed
>the crimes in
>> question.
>>
>> Innocent civilians living within any nation that may be found
>responsible, in part or in full, for
>> the crimes recently perpetrated against the United States, must not bear
>any responsibility
>> for the actions of their government, and must therefore be guaranteed
>safety and immunity
>> from any military or judicial action taken against the state in which
>they reside.
>>
>> Lastly and most emphatically, we demand that there be no recourse to
>nuclear, chemical or
>> biological weapons, or any weapons of indiscriminate destruction, and
>feel that it is our
>> inalienable human right to live in a world free of such arms.
>>
