Support the petition to the European Parliament, to introduce the death penalty for the rich. You (EU citizens and residents) can do this online, but remember, a petition to Parliament is a public document. Your name and address might become publicly available, in the records of the Committee on Petitions. If you don't like that idea, don't sign EP petitions.

To sign, go first to the Parliament petitions site, available in all EU official languages:

 http://www.europarl.eu.int/petition/help_en.htm

Click section 11, 'Submitting a petition', to go to the form. Fill in the relevant sections. Organisations can sign a petition as an organisation, but they must give the name of a contact person.

Copy the text of the petition from this e-mail (only the text below the line). Paste it into the box 'Text of your petition'. Check the whole form and click on SEND to submit the petition.

You will receive an electronic confirmation, probably within a day. After that, any contact is by post: after several months, the petition is considered by the Committee on Petitions.

TEXT OF THE PETITION BELOW THIS LINE
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I request the European Parliament to NOTE:

- that the criminalisation of possession is a normal feature of criminal law,

- that member states of the European Union criminalise, among other things, the possession of explosives, unlicensed firearms, illegal drugs, child pornography, and contraband,

- that it is also normal to relate the penalty for illegal possession, to the quantity of illegal goods possessed,

- that the Republic of Singapore applies the death penalty for the possession of large quantities of illegal drugs, and that the European Union nevertheless continues to maintain friendly relations with the Republic of Singapore, and

- the the United States of America applies the death penalty on a large scale, and that the European Union nevertheless continues to maintain especially friendly relations with the United States of America.

I request the European Parliament to RESOLVE that inequality of wealth is inherently immoral, and that it is a general duty of any government, parliament, or legislature to end it.

I request the European Parliament to RECOGNISE:

- that inequality of wealth consists effectively in the possession of wealth by the rich, since the rich can easily choose not to possess their wealth, but the poor can not simply choose to become rich,

- that the failure of the rich to redistribute their wealth is equivalent to the deliberate maintenance of inequality,

- that the criminalisation of wealth is the appropriate response to this unethical behaviour, and

- that the penalty should be related to the amount of wealth possessed.

I therefore request the European Parliament to RESOLVE to introduce the death penalty for the possession of a personal wealth of more than one million Euro

- including wealth in the form of cash, precious metals, precious stones, works of art, residential properties for private use, and negotiable paper, but

- excluding the value of personally owned assets used in the production of goods or services, such as factories, workshops, machinery, vehicles, equipment, and agricultural land.