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Petition of Concerned Citizens
to their Governments and Media for Peace, against the Instigators of Wars, and for a World Peace Week to be observed from Nov. 5th to 11th. |
This petition is now online in its final form at http://new.petitiononline.com/WPW/petition.html |
The world community, the peoples of the United States, the United Kingdom, and all other nations of our planet, desire peace and abhor war;
The recent atrocity of illegal wars on Afghanistan and Iraq forced upon the world community by deceit and blackmail has exploded the myth that modern wars, even those waged by developed nations, erupt from spontaneous and natural causes;
Current and historical research never fails to unearth evidence showing each of the major and minor wars of the modern great powers to be the fruits of concerted machinations by aggressive and powerful elites;
The brief summary of major wars in the appendix shows that one of their most effective means of instigating wars and pretexts of wars is by engineering real or fake provocations and symbolic attacks on their citizenry;
This criminal tradition has continued uninterrupted and undisturbed for at least 400 years in the English-speaking world, since the hatching of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, which is still celebrated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Day, Nov. 5th, without the great majority of English people ever understanding its significance;
Extensive influence over media and formal education by the self-same elite has kept us, the world's people almost entirely ignorant of these true facts about war;
Our peace movements have thus been largely ineffectual, as good intentions with ignorance have never been a match for a cunning hold on the levers of power, and indeed, problems are not solved without knowledge of their causes, nor by attempts to prevent them in the abstract, without identifying their authors;
Our society has been indoctrinated to glorify war and despise peace, as exemplified by the presence of six holidays of a martial character on the US calendar, without a single holiday dedicated to peace;
The accelerating military adventures and wizardry of mass destruction in the hands of a visibly irresponsible faction represent a grave and present danger to the survival of the majority of us, the world's people,
So that the safety of the human race can no longer be secured by blind trust in such self-appointed leaders and spokesmen, but only by the most widespread understanding of these grave facts,
We therefore, in view of these urgent and grievous matters, require and hereby
That the week from November 5th to November 11th be named National Peace Week respectively World Peace Week by the Congress of the United States, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the General Assembly of the United Nations, and its constituent governments, in recognition of the true significance behind the holidays celebrated on November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day in the UK and November 11th, Veterans Day in the US;
That the members of the educational and media professions celebrate and promote this Peace Week, and encourage discussion of the facts determined in this petition,
That the world's governments secure peace for their people by building bridges of neighborly and mutual trust between nations, and reducing their military and secret service establishments to the minimum, securing us from abuses and dangers and loss of freedoms;
That the US and UK governments specifically shall withdraw their occupying forces without delay from the territory of Iraq;
And we address this petition to the following worthy entities, to whom the signed petition shall be delivered:
Members of Congress of the United States, Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and Delegates to the United Nations;
It being also addressed by way of publication to:
Educators
Representatives of the World's Print and Electronic Media
The Individuals and Organizations who support Peace and oppose War.
Initiated in the State of California, October 25th, 2005
Signed, by the Concerned Citizens:
Signer's Individual Comments or Amendments:
Signer's Petition is directed individually and specifically to:
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Disclaimers:
Signing this petition does not imply acceptance of the petition author's expressed views or historical perspective, but only support for the actions petitioned.
Nothing in this Petition shall be construed as prejudicial against the American or British people per se, but only against those suspected of instigating war, who may be presumed to be a small but powerful clique.
Appendix:
Overview of war provocations by the dominant Anglo-American powers
For most of the 14 provocations listed below incontrovertible documentary proof is widely
available; while for a few incidents, such as those in 1898 or 1916, there exists a strong
preponderance of the evidence.
1605 – Guy Fawkes duped into the Gunpowder Plot to incite war with Spain
1846 – US commandos cross over the Rio Grande to provoke a war with Mexico
1898 – US blows up the USS Maine to start a war with Spain
1916 – US & UK send Lusitania to the torpedoes to get US into WWI
1930's – Wall Street, Bush clique finance the Nazi war machine
1941 – Japan is provoked into attacking Pearl Harbor to get US into WW2
1950 – Dulles (US) gets South Korea to attack the North and say the North attacked first
1962 – Operation Northwoods: US military plan to blow up an airliner and blame it on Cuba
1964 – Gulf of Tonkin – US fabricates attack by North Vietnam to escalate war
1979 – Brzezinski (US) lures Soviets into Afghanistan trap
1991 – Bush Sr. lures Saddam into Kuwait, fabricates "incubator baby deaths" to start Gulf
War
2001 – WTC blown up in covert operation, blamed on Taliban, anthrax blamed on Iraq
2003 – Bush Jr. lies about WMD to attack Iraq
2005 – Bush Jr. tries to start war with Syria and Iran
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