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…
Malcolm Hall houses the UP College of Law in Diliman, Quezon City. It was named after Justice George Malcolm of the colonial Supreme Court. Though the college was established in 1911 at UP Padre Faura, it was only in 1948 where its facilities and its huge law library were transferred to its present site in UP Diliman Campus.…
I could not write better than the illustrious historian Alfred W. McCoy, so I might as well reprint what he had written about martial law terror of President F. Marcos 39 years ago today. “IN THE FOURTH MONTH of President Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law rule, two constabulary troopers marched a middle-aged Chinese merchant across a Manila parade…
There is a concerted effort by the media and cyberspace kibitzers to drive a wedge between the President and the Bishops by summoning even an archaic constitutional doctrine of “separation between the church and state.” But they are bound to fail. Simeon Benigno Aquino, is a church’s poster boy who is much willing to accommodate…
“MASS” is a novel written in 1976 by F. Sionil Jose which won the 1980 ‘Ramon Magsasay’s Journalism, Literature and Creative Communicattion Arts’ Award. The title, contrary to what it connotes, is not about a religious Sunday ritual which one can easily disrupt to highlight his displeasure against the church. It is mass as in…
‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale? ”No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.’ [Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) U.S. author]. Congressman Edcel Lagman and his ilk of blabbering buffoons went straight to the Court house to challenge PNoy’s Adm. Order NO. 1 creating the Truth Commission. With…
Some people I have considered literate had been taken for a hilarious ride by the Magdalo Group of soldiers. The Magdalo Group is version 2 of RAM (Reform the Armed Forces Movement) by Senator Gregorio Honasan and the members of this group are transactional operators just like RAM members; they too are brash, ambitious, adventurous…
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