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"An Eye for an Eye" leaves the whole world blind — Mahatma Gandhi 

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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