Yesu:
I accept that your opinion that they are not in the same legal position because those writing the letters are not citizens as Paul was a citizen of the Roman Empire. But using the legal system is not taking a political stand either.
I can relate it to the ARC where Mr Stewart stated that he has received over a 1000 letters from people around the world concerned for that action, were all of those people taking a political stand with Australia or trying to present facts to a quasi-judicial body. Or on this forum a number of non-Australians signed a petition to get the Australian parliament to look at revoking Watchtower's charity status, so you will agree unless they were Australian Citizens then they should not have signed the petition.