For Senator Bongbong Marcos to say that his father was a hero and not a thief and that his last heroic act was his restraint in not ordering the massacre of the civilians massed at EDSA 1, in February 1986 is but normal of a son and a politician. In his eyes his father is an all-time hero; and as…
Our collective memories are not only short but malleable to the machinations of those who wanted to profit from the fall of the late dictator Mr. Marcos in 1986. Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Gregorio Honasan and former President Fidel Ramos are not heroes of EDSA 1, but its villains. They were Marcos martial law implementers whose participation in…
Watching Senator Gringo Honasan interpellating Secretary of Justice Lila De Lima during the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona yesterday about affording even a lowly citizen his constitutional rights to life, liberty and property as the very basis of the existence of any government gave me goose pimples. Rolando Olalia must be twisting in his grave! God Save The Queen…
Did GMA soil the integrity of her father, President Diosdado Macapagal and her physical ailments bear witness of her Dad’s wrath? During the 1965 presidential elections where Ferdinand Marcos ran against Diosdado Macapagal, General Ramon Gelvezon had adroitly sidestepped pressure from President’s ally Sergio Osmena to raid the Danao City bailiwick of Cebu’s warlord Ramon Durano. This is how…
“The devil can cite the Scripture for his purpose.” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice). It was in the case of Navy Colonel Generoso Mariano, who wanted President Noynoy Aquino replaced through extra-constitutional process by quoting the near “scriptural bidding” of Rizal: “If we have had bad leaders today and in the past , it is not the…
Col. Uldarico Baclagon, (1940-PMA), was a palace historian and propagandist during Marcos reign and he helped shape the Marcos myth as a war hero. In 1986, when Marcos fled to Hawaii, Baclagon became one presidential confidantes to fall from power into poverty. Here is a subtitle, “Myth As A History” of Alfred W. McCoy’s chapter…
Bongbong Marcos wanted to run for President. He, like the 204 congressmen in the house also believes that his father, the late strongman-dictator Ferdinand was a hero whose remains are in a private mausoleum in Batac, Ilocos Norte should be buried at the “Libingan Ng Mga Bayani”, in Taguig. To put some perspective in the minds…
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