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The Petition Has Been Delivered
After nearly 700,000 signatures, making it one of the largest online petitions of all time, we have printed out and delivered the petition below to world leaders. It has been translated into over 20 languages, some of which are linked to in the menu below, and has been covered by press worldwide. If you'd like to keep informed about future actions and events, please sign up for the 9-11Peace Bulletin. You can also easily email your representatives and browse other actions.
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
Commission, 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.
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