Petition to call on the Prime Minister to launch an independent inquiry into the legitimacy of the 'war on terror'.
We applied to hand Number 10 Downing Street a copy of War on Terror, the boardgame and a 'petition of two', asking Tony Blair to play our game.
It seemed to us that he could do with some new tactics. We've played out the 'long war' over 100 times and we've had at least two 'World Peaces', so we think we're getting somewhere.
Unfortunately Number 10 decided that our petition "wasn't serious" and refused to accept it. So we've tried our best to get serious and filed the following petition on their own E-Petitions Website.
The Petition
We, the undersigned, believe the 'war on terror' is a poorly defined tactical construct and that the UK is not really at war. If we are at war, the public should know the full details and so demand the following questions be properly addressed through an independent inquiry:
- What is the UK definition of the 'war on terror'?
- Is 'terror' a legitimate military objective?
- What are the causes of terrorism?
- Can terrorism be successfully combated with traditional military means?
- What progress are we making in the 'war on terror'?
- Why is there no internationally agreed definition of 'terrorism'?
We, the undersigned, believe that such basic questions have never been answered satisfactorily, or at all. This should be a pre-requisite, rather than an afterthought, to war.
More Details
- We've set a deadline of 4 April 2007.
- Here's a PDF of our petition sheet, just send any completed sheets into The Bunker.
- Petition started on 4 December 2006 - please feel free to forward this around.