ENOUGH! How can you continue to accept that your president can announce his intention to “reduce to the Stone Age” a country, Iran, inhabited by approximately 100 million people, after having bombed it, by surprise and unilaterally, and publicly admitted to having given the order, along with the Prime Minister of Israel, to kill the Supreme Leader of Iran, several members of his family, and three other high-ranking Iranian officials? On Saturday, April 4th, he even gave 48 hours to obtain an agreement (in other words, unconditional submission), failing which he promised “if not, it’s hell”?
You impeached President Nixon “simply” because he lied in the Watergate scandal. It’s impossible that you’re not reacting now and waiting to see what happens, as if it were a game, letting your president continue with impunity to kill thousands of people, including children, and to destroy all of Iran’s infrastructure (hospitals, schools, aqueducts, electrical and energy networks… roads, houses…)! In the name of what principles and what legitimacy do your ultra-powerful private investment funds and banks, your dominant global corporations, your prestigious universities, your major NGOs, your Oscar-winning actors and actresses, your Grammy-winning singers, your sports heroes, your deified billionaires, your fabulously wealthy foundations and philanthropic institutions… presume to let your president do as he pleases, or even support him? You elected him, he acts like a criminal, you must stop him from continuing to commit disasters with impunity.
And he has committed disasters in the world and in your own country as well. You know them. In every area. He has committed disasters with malice and complicity regarding the genocide of the Palestinians, with contempt and piracy towards the Ukrainians, with perversity towards the Venezuelans, the Greenlanders, and the Danes, as well as the Canadians, the Mexicans, and the Cubans; with dishonesty towards the Europeans, who are in turn guilty of dishonesty and opportunism; with cynicism and recklessness regarding the predation and degradation of Nature, of the Earth (Europeans have no lessons to teach you in this area!), and finally, with malevolence and contempt towards yourselves! Because he is the first and only president in US history who openly refuses to respect the principles and provisions of your Constitution, publicly and shamelessly asserting that the only force that can stop him and make him change his behavior is his own “morality” (sic) and his own agenda (sic!!).
Let’s be bold and say it, dare to say it with us: he is a confessed criminal! What are you waiting for to impeach him? To choose the right moment? When, if not NOW?!
We shout “No, ENOUGH!” And you have begun to shout it by the millions! In the streets, in the squares! Keep doing it in the halls of your democracy! We are with you! The world is tired of having to endure the misdeeds of your president, who has become an illegal and unconstitutional president through his own actions. You have a duty to arrest him. Your Constitution authorizes you to do so, legally. You do not have to provide proof of his guilt. They are there, obvious, luminous, at the eyes of all citizens of the USA and the world! You cannot accept this without becoming complicit.
Because of your president, the world has entered an intolerable, unacceptable phase, one where the law of the strongest prevails. Your president is an avowed autocratic dictator, blinded by his outsized ego and thirst for power. He believes he can do whatever he pleases. He thinks he is “the power”! He has become the embodiment of violence, brutality, incompetence, immorality, lies, cynicism, instability, vulgarity, and childish narcissism. Why don’t you clearly put into practice your desire to impeach him? It is within your reach. Admittedly, it is not an easily achievable goal, but it is possible and urgent. The inhabitants of the Earth must not be forced to think that you could be complicit with your president through inaction.
You know perfectly well: it is intolerable that the present and future of the world depend on a criminal, lawless president, including in relation to your Constitution.
You can no longer delay. With each passing day, the predicted hell could be unleashed, and then it will be too late, not only for you, but for all of us, citizens of the world.
Riccardo Petrella and Pietro Pizzuti, respectively Professor Emeritus at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and artist, comedian, writer (Belgium).
PS: The same appeal applies to Israeli citizens regarding their Prime Minister Netanyahu, chief perpetrator of the genocide of the Palestinians (recognized by the International Criminal Court) and the ongoing war of destruction and occupation in Lebanon, as well as the war against Iran. ENOUGH!
