Analogy - So supposedly trustable & respectable white hat theives (who are associated to a 1 Billion dollar SAFE & Security Corporation) take your diamonds from a safe to prevent the black hat theives from taking it and put it in their max security safe. Now as the diamond owner - it is my obligation to find a way to remove the diamonds out of the 'white hats safe' - Despite not knowing the password, the location, the mechanisms of the safe, the thickness of the metal, the amount of security guards protecting it etc etc. The white hat theives know all of this yet its now my responsibility.LOL
Great analogy except it has no bearing on the actual situation. All you need to do is talk to those guys and find out if they can help you or give you the information needed to proceed on your own. Even if you get your petition done you'll have to deliver it to someone. Why not just contact them now?
When you need food do you send a petition to the grocery store or maybe first check if they would be willing to sell it to you at a mutually acceptable price?
StinkyLover - they don't need to forfeit the ETH but the thing is that the hard fork path was chosen in part because it was deemed too complicated/risky to recover the coins via the white hat path. Now the fork is done but someone still wants to do the white hat recovery anyway. I'd say more power to them except this petitioner only knows how to yell "give me my money" and doesn't want to spend even 5 minutes on research.