Tom, I'm basing my comment upon the last 70 years  (at a  minimum) of US
foreign and domestic policy, of which the following is just a handful:

-US support of any old dictatorship which was anti-communistic, even if it
was exploitive of its own people and the environment.

-US training of assassins in'The School of the Americas'.

-US support of oil companies  and suppression of clean, renewable energy.

-US support of oil companies  and a medical model based upon oil-derived
drugs and illness rather than upon promoting positive good health.

-US agencies secretly promoting and benefiting from the drug trade while
publically proclaiming 'The War On Drugs'.

-'US support of 'defense' industries  and selling arms to both sides of
conflicts.

-US support of multinational corporations which are fed by wars.

-US neglect of real needs of the people of our country and of other
countries .

An aside -- The people accused of the Twin Towers tragedies were very
selective in their murdering. They were not killing Americans whenever and
wherever possible. There are many ways they could have caused the deaths of
many more of us, so I don't see that as their aim. I see striking terror in
our hearts and causing us to think may have been among their aims.

I feel genuine safety comes only with the lack of enemies. There is much the
US can do to right the injustices we have supported and to turn enemies into
trusting friends.

Namaste! ~ Jean



on 9/30/01 11:11 PM, Tom Creech at tcreech@... wrote:

> Jean, when you say "our country", do you mean the U.S.?  If so, ARE YOU
> SERIOUS? Please explain to me how WE started this.  Also, all the "proactive
> peaceful bonds" in the world are not going to sway Bin Laden's followers from
> following his orders to kill Americans whenever and wherever possible. Wake
> up.
>
> Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Mayes To:
> Kefir_making@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 2:06 PM Subject:
> Re: [Kefir_making] Peace petition
>
>
> Roger, I resonate with you that it's the actions of our country that started
> all of this. I pray that we can behave wisely, all of the sudden, and make a
> proactive peaceful bond with ourselves and other countries.
>
> Namaste!  Jean
>
>
> on 9/29/01 6:05 PM, Roger Siuda at r_siuda@... wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dom, I could not find bin Laden's signature anywhere on the peace petition,
>> I'll sign right below him. Where was the peace petition when Clinton started
>> all this by killing innocent women and children when he fired off the
>> Tomahawks at the tents and aspirn factory. To bad we didn't have a petition
>> to send to Hitler it would have saved us all a lot of time and trouble.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>> From: "Dominic A." <dna@...> Reply-To:
>>> Kefir_making@yahoogroups.com To: "K_m" <Kefir_making@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Subject: [Kefir_making] Peace petition Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:05:22 +0930
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I had a request from a list member (after fearing that they may have their
>>> head bitten off), to post this peace petition.
>>>
>>> Here's the link to this petition if any one is interested in adding their
>>> name to peace:
>>>
>>> http://www.9-11peace.org/petition.php3
>>>
>>> Dom
>>>
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>