Commentary
By Tina Berenger Peralta
Filipinos have such short memories. Just like the way they vote for public officials, their emotions always rule the decisions that could greatly impact their lives.
There were great hopeful days in the first few months of martial law especially when there were no more loose guns in the street that could get you killed if you were in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong crowd. But then weakness set in and absolute power corrupts absolutely and our hopes for a disciplined and progressive nation were dashed. The government that Marcos spawned became oppressive and was no longer of the people, by the people and for the people, but of the dictatorship, by the dictator, and for the dictator, his wife and family and for his cronies.
I say do not bury the man. In fact let his unburied remains be an open reminder to all those who wish to serve our country with impunity that all the riches in this world, all the power and might, all the jewelry, dollars and mansions cannot be contained inside one’s coffin and therefore there is no need to cause such grief, such pain, such humiliations, such violence in order to hold on to that power and riches. All that matters really is that a leader leaves behind a good name, full of integrity, honesty and respect for human dignity and a progressive nation that we can all be proud of. But alas! All those valuable and noble traits of a leader Marcos was so sadly lacking and in my view he does not deserve a burial with full military honours. His legacy has been the consistent burying of our dreams, of our poor malnourished children, of our pride as a nation.
Who is going to honour the 14 year old son of a journalist whose head was crushed by a rock and left to die in a cogon field just because his father wrote something nasty about Marcos? Did that poor boy deserve to die for his father’s courage? What about that man who was fooled and whose life was not given any value but had to be used as the patsy who killed the President’s father? Who is going to mourn him and give him a special burial place? More importantly who will mourn the loss of entire generations of Filipinos whose sense of morality has been grossly screwed up and we now believe stealing, bribe taking and being totally corrupt are good character traits worth emulating. Or killing indiscriminately anyone that gets in the way of holding on to power is the only right way to take out bothersome opponents as in what happened in Maguindanao?
All of what we have become as a people and as a nation is the legacy of 20 years of Marcos’ tutoring on how to screw up a nation’s morality and respect for the law.
Bury Marcos with full military honours and we truly bury our integrity and dignity as a people and as a nation.
I echo Tina Peralta’s written discourse: Filipinos have short memories ; how soon you forget… after all what this family had done to our kababayans , from the father, the wife, and the children and now they still have the audacity to honor Marcos as a hero?
It’s a pity to fathom that Filipinos elected all the three vultures -beginning with Imelda , followed by Imee and then Bongbong to the senate? Where are your decency and sense of value mga kababayan? Have you not been affected and suffered more than enough caused by this greedy , manipulative and vulturous clan ? the human bondage , the sufferings and everything this family had done is now completely erased from your memory and proven short lived in your inner most self? they screwed you… they scrupulously stripped you off of your human dignity? they all violated human trust and took advantage of you , kayong mga kababayan nila? what kind of people are they? It’s so inconceivable why our kababayans have short memory. Words are inadequate to picture and give a proper , absolute and superlative contagion to befit their unforgiveable ,yet unending mesmerizing and camouflaging behavior turning Filipinos around and making them believe again-to give them back the trust that’s been betrayed?
Do you think they have changed? do you think they’re sorry for everything they’ve done? Believe it or not, there is a saying in Tagalog” Ang sakit na pinaglamnan, gumaling man ay balantukan”…. meaning the scar that’s been healed will always remain as hardened scar forever.
Now mga kababayan, do you think you would embrace and hug them back again, take them back under your wings? for you to agree to give Marcos the medal of honors is shameful. Those who believe in this clan’s stomacky system and voracious desire to cheat Filipinos again and again is already in their long range plan, all these are conceat!camouglage!
So let’s wake up mga kababayan!
To hell with the jellyfish lidders of Pinas.
What is Ramos doing after his cousin broke his promise? Silent night is holy night?
Marcos the villain was already given an undeserved military honors,
why is his family and cronies still asking for more military honors?
The plundering hero of the worst kind was supposed to have been buried a long time ago,
why is he still around continuing his dictatorship and abusing Pinas?
“Marcoses broke promise to bury FM’s body at once in Ilocos – Fidel Ramos”
“Marcos body was accorded military honors in 1993″
““I authorized the return of the remains of the late president under certain conditions,” Ramos said on June 24, 1998 on the eve of his transfer of presidential power to President-elect Joseph Estrada.”"
“Ramos, a cousin of Ferdinand Marcos, said his first condition was that the body not stop over in Manila but be flown directly to Ilocos. That was fulfilled.”
“”The second precondition was that during Marcos’ burial in Ilocos, “he (would) be given the honors befitting a major of the armed forces,” Ramos said. The Marcoses in effect agreed that their father would be denied state honors.”"
“”Reporting on the same news conference, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published on June 25, 1998 that two of the three preconditions were fulfilled – the direct trip to Batac and military honors befitting an army major: “These two conditions were eventually fulfilled when Marcos was brought to Batac through the Laoag International Airport. He was later given military honors before being placed in an air-conditioned mausoleum in the Marcos ancestral home in Batac.””
“”Below is the New York Times article on the return of Marcos’ body which the Marcoses then said would be buried in a “black marble mausoleum.”
“Fooled ya,” Imelda Marcos must have muttered afterward as she displayed his corpse like a grotesque version of Sleeping Beauty” inside a glass coffin.”"
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The evil ‘Yorkan King’ Marcos of the Philippines, has broken the Circle of Decency and Justice in that Dreamland. He was an evil dictator while alive. Now, even in death, he continues to be an evil dictator with a frozen body telling his family and his cronies the “divine plan” to go on and multiply his evil deeds.
It does not look like the poor Pinas can have “The Circle As Before” in their life time. So, what is Pinas waiting for? Go ahead, just let Beijing drop a couple of their A-Bombs in the Ilocos Nation and get it over with. Pinas can then have “The Circle As Before” with Ergon, the Protector of the Right.
” ‘Tis the land of dreams
Created by Light
Circle ‘round it beams
Protector of the right
Circle was broken
Creatures would implore
To see the oaken
Circle as before”
That is a portion of the preface in the pocketbook “The Circle As Before” written by a twelve-year (12) old girl when she was still ten (10) years old.
You bet, I could not believe it myself. But you can read some portions/reviews of it at Amazon.com, a marketer, or Lulu.com the publisher in their respective sites:
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I don’t know why the web site reference addresses were deleted:
http://raissarobles.com/2011/06/09/marcoses-broke-promise-to-bury-fms-body-at-once-in-ilocos-fidel-ramos/ – My exclusive By Raïssa Robles
http://www.amazon.com/Circle-As-Before-isbn/product-reviews/1458334287/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-circle-as-before/14460102
Understanding and Respect……
GOD said how can you Obey ME if you can not forgive your enemy.
How can we have PEACE if you can not forget the past and move on.
How can you give our Children the FUTURE if we cannot LIVE TODAY.
Ferdinand Marcos was a Veteran….the Libingan of Bayani is for Veterans with honorable Discharge…..the eligibility for burial do not preclude activity after service of duty, that I know of.
President Benigno S. Aquino said during his inauguration Corruption can be erradicated in the Philippines….HOW by forgiving others and move on…..and stop the corruptions from the lowest level upwards and simultaneaously from highest level downwards, from our family, our church, and community. Promote the TEN COMMANDMENTS and OBEY THEM….
LAUS DEO SEMPER
macoy was a deserter who should have been shot on the spot
he deserted his allegiance to honor and protect his country
but instead ravaged, raped, and plundered her
thrown by the wayside as garbage
you preaching to a christian country?
their christianity are over-flowing already, over-used and abused
all they know is forgive and FORGET
after hearing Jesus Christ say to Mary Magdalene,
“Neither do I condemn you; GO SIN SOME MORE”
semper fi mi de facto dictador murio en batac