Please find attached the “Report on the incitement to genocide by the 45th US president”. We are confident that it presents an irrefutable case of an impeachable ‘high crime’ and meets the criteria set forth when you asked your House Committees for the best cases on potentially impeachable offenses by the president to be put together: clear cut, easy for everybody to understand and no need for further proof, as there exists, in this case too, an official transcript of an incriminating call between president Trump and his Filipino counterpart, Mr. Duterte. As the presidential incitement to genocide was nowhere mentioned on the lists of cases under review, you decided to focus on the sole Ukraine/Zelensky case. Yet we trust that the advantages of inclusion of this new case in your impeachment inquiry may help you overcome the US nation’s growing inability to separate your opponent’s fictional narratives from the objective realities, because, contrary to president Trump, no decent US politician has dared to glorify a genocide to achieve political goals. We are moreover convinced that the overt rejection by the US Congress of the abject statements by the 45th US President is crucial to avert our liquidation and to restore the world’s confidence in US adherence to our shared values.

In the meantime, the genocide in the Philippines continues as president Duterte reinforces his grip on the Philippine’s Congress and Judiciary. A possible ICC investigation into his responsibility for the ongoing slaughter is henceforth heavily compromised as he is openly supported by his ally and possible co-defendant, the US president, against whom eventual charges in the case could be expected to be dropped, as an obstruction of justice on his part has already been announced in advance.
With both US and international criminal justice systems proving unable to proceed now that the opposition of the alleged perpetrator determines the interest of justice to prosecute and given the absence of other effective remedies, it seems that only the instrument of impeachment remains.

The outcome of this exercise may be disappointing but at least your worldwide audience will be informed and have a better chance to judge the facts when there is no dispute about what took place. Paraphrasing the chairman of your House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Schiff, the question has then become: if incitement to genocide is not impeachable conduct, what is?
Would the Senate, upon impeachment by your House, decide that incitement to genocide by the US president is covered by the US constitution, your inquiry will provide the American people with the chance for an informed correction in the 2020 elections. Thus, although the immediate failure of the impeachment would seem to confirm the earlier The Hague decision that it is not in the interest of justice to condemn, or even to try president Trump for incitement to genocide, the ultimate result cannot be other than that the crime committed has finally met its opposition.

04. MORAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE CHOICE FOR THE IMPEACHMENT REMEDY
Madam Speaker, fellow users, the moral justification for us to request impeachment of Mr. Trump is our duty to prevent that people may fail to recognize this incitement to genocide. It could occur if the impeachment inquiry remains limited to the Ukraine/Zelensky case, because although the US media have extensively reported on the Philippines’ massacre, there is no national awareness of US responsibility for its legitimization. In the US, Mr. Trump’s interventions were mostly treated as single incidents dealing with a foreign local drug problem instead of consequent expressions of endorsement of an extermination policy, the way it is viewed in Manila and expressed in Filipino government statements (see in the attached report : ‘From incitement to cooperation?’).

Would therefore president Trump be impeached and convicted on other grounds than incitement to genocide, his message to incite could well survive and determine future drug wars, the same way the war on drugs, started by president Nixon in 1971, survived his resignation upon his impeachment and resulted in escalating levels of arrests and incarceration in the subsequent decades.

The two grounds of moral justification we do invoke here deal respectively with the recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family and, secondly with users’ belief in a just society where the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies will help prevent and reduce the harms of drug abuse.

ma. The first ground is enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights, the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, adopted by both the Philippines and the United States, and hailed in 1998 as "A Magna Carta for all humanity". With the drama of Europe’s Holocaust still fresh in the world’s memory, the drafters of the 1948 Universal Declaration -the first of three documents included in the Bill- straight away declared in the Preamble that barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind -and would become known as ‘genocide’- were the result of disregard and contempt for human rights. Supporting our impeachment request therefore signifies only the rejection of genocide of users and testifies of respect for human rights. This statement implies that drug use does not justify extra-legal manslaughter and that users also belong to humanity, to whom rights apply.

In the Philippines, where politically incorrect social behavior, economic poverty, indigenous belonging, ideological activism, prohibited consumption, indeed any deviation from the Duterte line is confronted with the terror of an authoritarian regime, users are excluded from humanity. The focus of the opposition to Oplan Tokhang -Duterte’s anti-drug war campaign- therefore is on respect for the rule of law and individual rights and freedoms. In the Philippines it is a fight for the survival of democracy. A heroic fight by courageous individuals betrayed by the American president’s endorsement of Duterte but hardened by their recent history of victories over other unscrupulous rulers. A textbook example of democratic opposition to dictatorship, driven by an informal group of four outstanding Filipino women, profiles in courage and social engagement:

Ana Theresia "Risa" Hontiveros, a politician, community leader and journalist, she was representative (2004 – 2010) and is senator since 2016. She is one of the lead figures in the country's democratic socialism movement and LGBT rights movement and a key opposition figure against the country's controversial drug war. Her legislative agenda focuses on the human and civil liberties of various minority groups. In July 2019 the Philippines Police filed sedition charges against Ms. Hontiveros, dubbed as acts of political persecution by the opposition.
Leila Norma de Lima, a lawyer, human rights activist, politician and law professor, senator of the Philippines since 2016. She was Chairperson of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (05/2008 – 06/2010) and Secretary of the Department of Justice. (2010 – 2015). She opposed Duterte’s drug war from its beginning and was arrested in February 2017 on allegedly trumped up non-bailable charges of involvement in drugs trade. On November 20, 2019, supporters and colleagues of Ms. de Lima gathered to protest her “unjust” detention of already 1,000 days.
Maria A. Ressa, a journalist and CEO of the online news site Rappler. She worked as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. She was included in Time's Person of the Year 2018 as one of a collection of journalists from around the world combating fake news. She was arrested in February 2019 for "cyber libel" amid accusations of falsified news and corporate tax evasion. An outspoken critic of Duterte, her arrest is seen as politically motivated. Ms. Ressa is free on bail.
Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, a lawyer and social activist who is the 14th and incumbent Vice-President of the Philippines and a vocal critic of Duterte’s drug policy. She is frequently assailed and threatened by the president. As Drug Czar (05/11/2019 – 24/11/2019) she was the first to introduce a paradigm shift in the counter narcotics program, from an emphasis on crime to one on health. She was fired as Czar after 3 weeks for fear that she would leak "state secrets" to the UN.

We feel that the exemplary contribution to democracy and the values it embodies by the Filipino opposition represented by this Filipino group merits all our attention and unconditional support: first of all from the users of mind-altering substances as we too meet a rare example of unconditional support in a situation where the defense of our fellow users is a risky undertaking which puts human rights defenders in permanent peril and constant harassment; but most of all from you, Madam Speaker, as the defense of our human rights, in the first place our right to life, can best be secured by your House of Representatives’ impeachment of president Trump for incitement to genocide.

mb. The second ground of moral justification for impeachment of president Trump for incitement to genocide of drug users is not to be found in positive law but in the rejection of an immoral law. In the present period of the crisis of truth, in which the lie has raised its head again to crush democracy and its many achievements, it’s time to expose the failure of prohibition and its historic relationship to deception.

Modern drug prohibition, a war on consciousness presented as a politically neutral response to a public health problem, is the ideal driver for the persecution of unwanted minorities. It is a fake health policy functioning as cover-up for universally prohibited discrimination. As Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman explained: “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” Ms. McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, of Washington’s Drug Policy Alliance, confirms: “The Philippines is a stark example of how the drug war can so easily serve as an excuse for targeting vulnerable people, and harassing critics, and punishing opponents.” And Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria and member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, agrees: “Prohibition is used as a social control tool.   It is time to ask ourselves what moral order is being preserved by pursuing, through harsh penalties, the illusion of a 'drug-free world'.   Beliefs and ideology should not govern public policy decisions when we have scientific evidence as to what works and what does not.”

Scientific evidence wasn’t available in the first 11.000 years of the Holocene when, with the rise of standardized religious traditions and mega-societies with populations of over one million people, moralizing gods emerged who would increasingly punish moral violations in interactions between humans as well as direct affronts to themselves, like failure to perform sacrifices or consumption of the mind altering substances, up till that moment known as "plants of the gods." The reasons for punishment couldn’t be checked because they fell outside the reach of human inspection, protected by the privileged communications between religious hierarchy and the heavenly rulers.
As the separation of church and state, devised in the second half of the second millennium has been maintained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a different motivation for prohibition had to be given for the 1961 Single Convention. With the devastating results of the Chinese opium wars (chemical warfare) and of the unlimited over-the-counter sales in the west of addictive painkillers fresh in the post-WWII memory, public health seemed the ideal substitute for divine commands.
The facts meanwhile showed that the War on Drugs had failed and that the punitive prohibition system had not delivered on its promises. That is so because the objectives had changed, as it was no longer the observance of a religious ban as part of the adherence to a belief system, but the confidence in the genuine promotion of the common interest of public health that now determined success. Burning the witches is the goal of the witch hunt, saving the life of an opioid-treated patient is the essence of health care. This subtlety is lost on the drug warriors however as they continue to view their mission as a moral crusade wherein opiate overdose reversal drugs, syringe exchange programs and supervised consumption sites are considered obstacles to establish a drug free world. Hence the disregard for evidence-based conclusions, the need to obfuscate and confound the data and the lies to claim fake successes. The Duterte mass murder is a case in point. The total number of users, people in police custody, users who surrendered to the police and people killed are regularly ‘updated’ by different government units in order to further raise the fog curtain. Each claim by opponents can be ridiculed while Duterte himself manipulates the data at will. The numbers he cites do suit his own ends: the government's figure of 5.500 people killed are the lowest estimates available and do better support his claims that only those people who fight back when arrested are killed; the 8 million drug users, a Duterte invented 344% increase between 2015 and 2019, point to a critical mass of users that can be presented as public enemy number one to justify a full-blown war on drugs.

The Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Duterte’s hero and ideological predecessor , invented the assassination attempt on Juan Ponce Enrile to justify his declaration of martial law. Comments Rappler: “The present drug crisis in the Philippines is no different: it’s the centerpiece of Duterte’s policies precisely because it’s an easy vehicle for him to consolidate power and execute his authoritarian style of leadership.” This is the man president Trump congratulated with his murderous drug policy. A failure, sustained by lies only, but that he won’t admit.

According to the Washington Post’s "Fact Checker" database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office”, the president made 13,435 false or misleading claims in the 993 days up to the last update on Oct. 9, 2019. The US president can be considered an expert liar. Not in the sense that his lie is indistinguishable from the truth, but that in a plethora of lies the liar creates a new world that can appeal to listeners for as long as new lies maintain the fake construction he has created. Simultaneously the critics who accuse the liar of lying are themselves accused by the liar of lying. There now exist two fake worlds. The world of Trump we call fake and the world of our truth he calls fake. Which world will gobble up the other one? Which world will prevail?

There is only one means to beat the lie of prohibition: to tell the truth. But how to recognize the truth? That is easy: by telling the truth where the persons addressed know it. The difficulty may be that to have a person change worlds, the truth to be told should uncover a lie not only of the world of the listener, who may disregard your message because it comes from your fake world, but from the world of the truth teller herself. By incriminating his own world when admitting a lie that rules both fake worlds will the truth teller offer the listener an added value. To expose the lies of the others we must expose our own lies. To make the other accept our truth we must expose common lies, made over time by everybody. Thus, we should expose a lie we have in common with president Trump. A lie he uses to incite to the genocide of drug users which we condemn on the basis of our adherence to higher principles, ones he dislikes. A lie that has brought so much misery to people that they gladly will change worlds if you admit to the lie they know to be a lie. A large majority of Americans want the end of the War on Drugs because they recognize the lies about the danger of using some drugs, like marijuana, and about punishment as the best solution for the use of other drugs, like opioids.

But most of all by you, Madam Speaker, as the continuation of the War on Drugs by president Trump will only invite more lies and more death. The call for change is worldwide and is addressed at the United States, in casu at you. At the occasion of a meeting on the global opioid epidemic, which has been called the worst drugs crisis in history, the president of the Global Commission on Drugs Policy, former Swiss president Ruth Dreyfuss proposed the only possible solution to this crisis driven by overprescription: don’t leave public health in the hands of the black market, don’t abdicate but regulate. We ask you to prevent that the US president will clear, in advance, the mass murderers of users of consciousness altering substances, the way he cleared the murderers in the US military. We are confident that your impeachment of Mr. Trump for incitement to genocide will equally help the ICC Prosecutor to obtain the authorization of the International Court to investigate Mr. Duterte.
We hope you will agree that the work of Ms. Eleanor Roosevelt's contribution to the drafting and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be finalized if we wish to prevent the demolition of her contribution to mankind by Mr. Trump.