My exclusive interview with Sen. Bongbong Marcos
By Raïssa Robles
One remark you might hear from supporters of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is that we shouldn’t blame the son for the sins of the father. Even Satur Ocampo said something to this effect when he defended his decision to run alongside the dictator’s offspring in 2010.
“We are not collecting from the son,” Ocampo said to explain why he and Bongbong Marcos were on the same Senate slate and even shook hands.
Ocampo even added that “the guy was sincere to us.”
Ocampo, it seems, forgot that Bongbong Marcos had called human rights victims like himself greedy back in February 24, 1999, during the 13th year celebration of the Edsa 1 People Power. Bongbong Marcos insulted all his father’s human rights victims whom he noted were squabbling among themselves because:
Basta’t may pag-asang magkapera, nagaaway-away na sila” (As long as there’s a chance of making money, they’ll fight among themselves).
I am posting at the end in full the news item entitled – Bongbong: Apology? They only want money
In reviving his political career, Bongbong Marcos has successfully detached himself from the sins of his father.
Today I’m offering readers the proof why Filipino voters shouldn’t let him do that. Because the truth is, Sen. Bongbong Marcos colluded with his father then to hide the family’s ill-gotten wealth and he continues to this day to hide this from the Filipino people.
And the proof came from what Sen. Bongbong Marcos himself told me in a public forum held by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) last year, just before the 25th anniversary of Edsa 1 People Power.
Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos seems to have trouble with his tie. Behind him to the right is businessman Lance Gokongwei – PHOTO by Raissa Robles
I wrote about this last year for my newspaper South China Morning Post. Now I’d like to share with you the answers that Sen. Bongbong Marcos gave to my questions during the FOCAP forum.
I took pictures of him, too.
First, a brief background
When Sen. Bongbong Marcos fled from Malacañang Palace with his family, their loot hidden worldwide was estimated to run from US$2 billion to up to US$10 billion. Only a fraction of that has been recovered by the Philippine government.
I intentionally use the word “loot” because no less than the Swiss Federal Supreme Court used the phrase “of criminal origin” to describe the Marcos Swiss deposits in Credit Suisse bank when it issued a ruling to award this money to the Philippine government.
Here’s how the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police website explained the Swiss court ruling on the Marcoses’ deposits in Credit Suisse:
The Marcos case began in 1986 when the Federal Council ordered bank accounts to be frozen. In 1990, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court approved the handover to the Philippines of bank documents relating to the Marcos family, but ruled that the actual return of assets would be conditional upon a final and absolute judgment by a Philippine court. In 1997, the Court established that the majority of the Marcos foundation assets were of criminal origin and permitted their transfer to a escrow account in Manila, even though no Philippine court ruling had yet been issued.
It is the same Credit Suisse deposits that I had asked Sen. Bongbong Marcos about last year during the FOCAP forum. I asked him whether he had a direct hand in trying to withdraw US$213 million dollars from Credit Suisse.
The forum was well attended and had as other forum speakers Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, Supreme Court administrator Midas Marquez, Cebu Pacific CEO Lance Gokongwei, Pete Troilo (executive director of the private think tank Pacific Strategies and Assessments), senior businessmen and diplomats from various embassies. 
I wrote an article on the matter last year for my newspaper SCMP but didn’t get around to writing one for my blog because it is such a complicated story. I will try to tell it now as simply as I can.
Why am I raking up an incident of 26 years ago?
It’s a legitimate question.
Here are my answers.
First, Sen. Bongbong Marcos told me during the FOCAP forum that he still intends to pursue a compromise settlement with the present government of Benigno Aquino III:
We’ve been pursuing a compromise settlement since 1986. We will continue to do so.
Second, he knows where other Marcos deposits are hidden outside the country. Why else would his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) and that of his mother skyrocket so much even if the family has no business empire like the Gokongwei or Sy tycoons.
Third, Sen. Bongbong Marcos and his two other siblings were named the “beneficiaries” of various foreign deposit accounts held by dummy foundations set up by their parents. Unfortunately for them, this mode of hiding the loot was discovered because they left some of the bank documents in Malacañang Palace when they fled. Others were later turned over by the Swiss Federal Court to the Philippine government.
Still, the Philippine government has no idea how many more foreign deposit accounts are still out there.
And fourth, Sen. Bongbong Marcos’ mother Imelda really wants to put another Ferdinand Marcos inside Malacañang Palace. Given all these, they seem to have the money to bankroll a presidential campaign.
Just think, in the last election, the family funded three electoral campaigns.
My Q & A with Sen. Bongbong Marcos
It was during the the FOCAP forum when Sen. Bongbong Marcos confirmed to me that he was not an innocent abroad but was as much a part of the plot to hide the loot.
Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos replies to my questions during the January 2011 FOCAP prospects forum. Beside him is Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona – PHOTO by Raissa Robles
I asked him about the events that occurred shortly after his family fled Manila in February 1986 and ended up exiled in Hickam Air Base, Hawaii.
What happened in Hawaii in 1986
After the Marcoses fled and the new government of President Corazon Aquino found papers in Malacañang Palace pointing to the Marcoses’ Swiss bank deposits, two men took it upon themselves to try a sting operation on the ousted dictator. They wanted to get a portion of the Swiss assets without going the complicated legal route.
The two men were then Colonel Jose “JoeAl” Almonte and Micheal Cesar de Guzman or Mike – a Filipino who had acquired a small bank in Austria called the Export-Finanzierungsbank or EFBA. Mike, according to an affidavit he executed afterward, personally knew Bongbong Marcos.
Mike had been Bongbong Marcos’ tour guide during the latter’s 1982 visit in Vienna and had proven he could deliver. Mike had personally facilitated the purchase of two expensive Austrian cars for Bongbong Marcos and his sister Irene.
retired Gen. Jose Almonte
According to President Cory Aquino’s government and to Jovito Salonga, the first chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), It was Almonte and Mike’s failed attempt to withdraw the Marcos loot which prompted the Swiss government to unilaterally freeze Marcos’ Swiss bank assets in 1986.
Sen. Bongbong Marcos, however, told me that was not the case. He said he blamed the United States government for the unilateral freeze on their Swiss deposits.
Sen. Bongbong Marcos confirmed to me during the FOCAP forum that on March 22, 1986 or weeks after the family fled Manila, Mike visited them in their quarters at Hickam Air Base. They were de facto prisoners on the island since the US government barred them from leaving Hawaii.
This is how I asked Sen. Bongbong about the events that transpired then between Mike and him. I taped my Q and & with Sen. Bongbong Marcos on a digital recorder and have transcribed them below:
RR: If I close my eyes I hear your father. The timbre of your voice is the same. And your father’s voice was a very good voice. .
Bongbong Marcos:
Well, thank you.
RR: Sen. Marcos I would appeal to you to clear the air at this point. We are again going to celebrate Edsa next month (in February 2011). So I thought I would ask you about something that has intrigued me and bothered me all these years.
I’m talking about March 22, 1986. You were in Hawaii and there was a person who visited you. His name was Michael De Guzman. He owned a small bank in Vienna. It was called the Export Finanzierungsbank. And he went to you and you gave him two separate powers of attorney from your parents to withdraw US$213 million from Credit Suisse to transfer to his Exportfinanzireungsbank.
The reason why I know is that Michael de Guzman executed an affidavit afterward. You even scribbled De Guzman a farewell note saying ‘we all feel that you are being a real friend. Since the goods won’t be in your bank for too long, please feel free to charge what handling fees you feel are appropriate.’
So De Guzman went to Switzerland and he happened to be accompanied by Gen. Almonte. But you didn’t know that because he (Almonte) was in the background.
They were going to do actually a sting operation on the Marcoses. They were going to get the money that you were supposed to put it in his (Mike’s) bank, but they were going to get it for the Philippine government, allegedly.
Anyway, De Guzman attempted to withdraw that amount using the powers of attorney he got from you. That’s what triggered Switzerland to freeze the assets held in your family’s name. At least that’s what he said in his affidavit. At least that’s what Jovito Salonga kept telling us reporters.
At this point, Sen. Bongbong Marcos said “No” that was not what triggered the freeze. I can’t give you the exact quote because it’s obscured by ambient noise on my digital recording.
RR: Okay, you’re saying no to that. Just the particular specific point that his actions were what triggered the freezing of the supposed Marcos accounts in Switzerland that was initially from the Swiss government rather than what Mike did?
Sen. Bongbong Marcos:
What happened there is the first of what has become a procession of people coming to the family saying that we have identified Marcos funds in a certain bank and we can release it if you give us a power of attorney.
There has been…the family gets one of those at least once every one month or two months where people come to us and they say – just sign this special power of attorney. We will take the special power of attorney. We will take it to the bank. And we have identified assets that belong to the Marcoses. We will then withdraw it in your favor and then we will take our handling fee.
And speaking of a handling fee these people will ask of us by Mike.
And he (Mike) did not come to see me. He came to see my parents. But he went through me because he was a close friend of, with Irwin Ver. And it was Irwin Ver who came to us and said Mike wants to come because he thinks he can help. He says he has identified an amount of money in a certain bank and he feels if he is given the necessary authority – the legal authority – he can withdraw it again in your favor and he will take his handling fee.
And so that was a general situation and it was as I said, it was the first. We still continue to receive offers of this nature. And although we have learned our lessons since then and we do not issue these special powers of attorney quite so easily anymore.
Again it is only remarkable in the fact that it was the first.
It was a precursor of what has been happening to us for the last 20 odd years. And as I said we get this constant offers of help, supposed help. And it would always take the same form: If you give us the power of attorney we would withdraw the amount for, if you give us money we need that money, we would use that money to be able to … shake the money loose from some bank.
RR: So Senator, you did have US$200 million in Credit Suisse?
Sen. Bongbong Marcos:
That’s what Mike said.
RR: Your parents gave him a power of attorney.
Sen. Bongbong Marcos:
What happened is it was not money that the family identified. It is a – let us say, Juan de la Cruz comes to us… and says we found some in the banks of London, Hong Kong, China, Switzerland, Luxembourg. Always and the amounts are mind boggling in millions of dollars.
RR: Would you confirm because I’ve seen documents that came from Malacanang that your family left behind. Some of these documents pertain to foundations. And among the beneficiaries of these foundations are all the three of you – you and your two sisters. Would you confirm that you were beneficiaries of these investment accounts?
Sen. Bongbong Marcos:
I cannot confirm because I haven’t seen or read them. We – I don’t know. I cannot – I cannot say that I know. Definitely the Swiss money were there. Or are there now. It’s for us – again this constant – that people are saying – more and more participating in that —
RR: In the next six years would you vigorously pursue a compromise settlement with the Philippine government over the Marcos assets?
Sen. Bongbong Marcos:
We’ve been pursuing a compromise settlement since 1986. We will continue to do so.
Just a note – Michael de Guzman had a different take on the story. Under oath, he told a Philippine congressional probe – the House Special Committee on Public Accountability – on July 10, 1989 that it was the young Bongbong Marcos who gave him the name Ernest Scheller as the contact inside Credit Suisse. Scheller was the senior Vice-president of Credit Suissse then.
Mike also executed an affidavit narrating his version of the events when he returned to Austria. I obtained a copy of this affidavit a long time ago.
The same amount that the Marcoses tried to have withdrawn from Credit Suisse with Mike’s help was part of the money awarded to the Philippine government by the Swiss Federal Court in 2003. By then, it had grown to US$683 million due to interest earnings.
The Marcoses are fond of saying that neither Ferdinand Marcos nor Imelda Marcos has ever been convicted of any crime.
The truth is that Ferdinand Marcos avoided any court suit by pleading ill health.
The reason why the anti-racketeering case in New York never prospered against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos was that they successfully blocked at that time the release of documents from Swiss banks showing the money trail.
Later, the Philippine government obtained these documents and used them to build a civil forfeiture case against the Marcoses. It was Associate Justice Renato Corona who issued the landmark decision on this case where he traced the money trail from Manila to Switzerland.
I am providing below the text taken from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police calling the Marcos money “of criminal origin”.
Meaning – stolen wealth from the Filipino people.
If you see Sen. Bongbong Marcos, please ask him about this.
In 1995, Sen. Bongbong Marcos tried to push a “universal settlement” with Fidel Ramos’ government that would have allowed the Marcoses to keep a fourth of the wealth “net of taxes” and all their civil forfeiture cases dropped. But the Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional.
Today, Congresswoman Imelda Marcos continues to tantalize the poor with the promise that once a settlement is reached with the Philippine government they would be the direct beneficiaries.
But why wait for that? If Imelda Marcos is really sincere, she would simply waive any claims to all those contested assets here and abroad in behalf of the nation’s poor. That would instantly place her forever in the nation’s heart.
Oops. Bad dream.
Here’s the text explaining the Swiss Federal Court ruling on the Marcoses’ ill-gotten loot:
Federal Office of Justice
Philippines given access to over USD 683 million
Confiscation ruling closes Marcos case
Press Release, FOJ, 05.08.2003Zurich/Bern, 5 August 2003. Satisfaction with the positive conclusion of the Marcos case was expressed by the Swiss and Phillippine authorities at a meeting in Zurich on Tuesday. Following the confiscation ruling of the Supreme Court in Manila, the Phillippines may now dispose of the Marcos assets that were deposited in a frozen account in 1998 and have since grown to approximately USD 683 million. The only matter still outstanding is the issue of assets worth USD 10 million in the names of those associated with the Marcos regime.
The Marcos case began in 1986 when the Federal Council ordered bank accounts to be frozen. In 1990, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court approved the handover to the Phillippines of bank documents relating to the Marcos family, but ruled that the actual return of assets would be conditional upon a final and absolute judgment by a Phillippine court. In 1997, the Court established that the majority of the Marcos foundation assets were of criminal origin and permitted their transfer to a escrow account in Manila, even though no Phillippine court ruling had yet been issued.
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court set two conditions for this advance transfer, however. The Phillippines had to provide an assurance that the confiscation or repayment of the assets in question would be handled through judicial proceedings that complied with the principles of the International Civil and Political Rights Pact, and the Phillippine government also had to undertake to brief the Swiss authorities regularly on the judicial confiscation and repayment proceedings, as well as on the precautions and procedures pertaining to compensation for victims of violations of human rights under the Marcos regime.
No further decision required from Swiss authorities
Once the Federal Office of Justice (at the time: the Federal Office of Police Matters) had declared the guarantee given by the Phillippines to be satisfactory and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had dismissed appeals against the ruling, the assets could be transferred in 1998 to a escrow account with the Phillippine National Bank in Manila. Following the confiscation ruling of the Phillippine Supreme Court on 15 July 2003, which confirmed the view of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court with regard to the criminal origin of the monies seized, the Phillippine government may now dispose of the assets, worth some USD 683 million. No further decisions are due on the part of the Swiss authorities. The Phillippine parliament is currently debating legislation under which the Marcos assets would be used for land reform and to compensate the victims of human rights violations.
USD 10 million still frozen
On Tuesday, representatives of the Office of the District Attorney IV of Canton of Zurich, the Federal Office of Justice, and the Phillippine Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) met in Zurich to discuss the outstanding legal assistance proceedings against others involved in the Marcos case, i.e. former ministers and other individuals. In 2000, bank documents were handed over to the Phillippines and a portion of the frozen assets (USD 5.5 million) transferred as an advance payment. The Office of the District Attorney IV for Canton of Zurich subsequently released assets worth approximately USD 30 million because the Phillippine authorities were unable to provide evidence that they were still pursuing criminal proceedings against the individuals concerned. Around USD 10 million remain frozen in Switzerland. The Phillippine judicial authorities will therefore have to issue a ruling on the confiscation of USD 15.5 million in the names of persons associated with the Marcos case.
And here’s the link to the actual release.
Here’s the story entitled:
Bongbong: What apology? They only want money
LAOAG CITY—The Marcoses, apologize?
”They don’t want an apology, they want money.”
Ilocos Norte Gov. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son and namesake of the late dictator, yesterday took a defiant stance on being asked if his family would heed the call–made by victims of human rights abuse during his father’s rule–for an apology.
Marcos Jr. said he and his family would apologize only if they have done something wrong.
After all, he said, it had yet to be established if the so-called ”rights claimants” existed. He said that of the 10,000 victims seeking damages from his father’s estate, not more than 1,000 had filed claims.
”And the 1,000 names we know are people who have nothing to do with human rights claimants,” he declared.”I think their true colors are showing because now they are fighting,” the young Marcos added.
”Basta’t may pagasang magkapera, nagaaway-away na sila (As long as there’s a chance of making money, they’ll fight among themselves).”Some of these people who are claiming to be human rights victims have never been victims except (of) their own greed.”
Marcos Jr. described the Edsa uprising on Feb. 22-25, 1986, as ”nothing but a political power grab.”
The government commemorated on Monday the 13th anniversary of the historic revolt that toppled the dictatorship and swept Corazon ”Cory” Aquino, widow of Marcos’s political archrival, to power.
But Marcos Jr. thinks nothing has changed since he, together with the then ailing strongman and other members of his family, fled Malacañang on Feb. 25 13 years ago.”My interpretation of (the Edsa uprising) is, there was no revolution,” he said.
”A revolution is a change in social order. But the poor remain poor. Nothing has changed.”Sincerity
Marcos Jr. said President Estrada had shown sincerity in resolving the cases involving his family.
Last week, he told reporters here that the best chance to find a settlement to the dispute over his family’s alleged ill-gotten wealth was for the human rights groups, the Philippine government and the Marcoses to conduct negotiations during Mr. Estrada’s term.Settlement talks between the Marcoses and the Estrada administration had been suspended pending the resolution of a motion for reconsideration filed by the family last month with the Supreme Court.
The Marcoses asked the tribunal to reconsider its judgment on the 1993 compromise agreement they signed with then President Fidel Ramos, which calls for a 75-25 sharing in favor of the government.
Marcos Jr. said his family did not agree with the proposed 75-25 formula.He also said he did not know of the gold deposits that Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, his father’s long-time defense minister and considered an Edsa hero, had been reported as citing.
”When (Enrile) was in Hawaii, I was there,” Marcos Jr. said.
”My father was already too ill to speak to him or make any of the arrangements that he has been talking about. I cannot imagine that my father (will issue an instruction) without me knowing it.”
Past associationRamos, head of the Constabulary during martial law, urged Filipinos on Monday to ”remember the truth” as he denounced the return to power of those unseated or forced into exile by the Edsa revolt.
He did not name names in his speech delivered at a breakfast forum, but he was obviously referring to the family of his former boss, the late strongman, and the cronies who once controlled major industries in the country.But some senators yesterday advised Ramos, another key figure of the uprising, not to forget his past membership in the dictator’s elite set.
Still others noted that his statement indicated a distancing from present leaders once associated with the dictator and who did not participate in the uprising.
Senate President Pro Tempore Blas Ople, labor minister of the late strongman, pointed out that Ramos ”was one of the Marcos right-hand men who managed to come back quicker than the others.”
Ople said Ramos ”must have forgotten that he was head of the PC-INP and vice chief of staff of the Armed Forces when martial law was declared.”He should not be maligning himself,” Ople said in an interview.
Sen. Francisco Tatad, the press secretary who read Marcos’ declaration of martial law on air in 1972, said those who managed to come back ”by virtue of the electoral process” were able to do so because of the people’s will.
”There is nothing (Ramos) can do. He used to be a crony himself,” Tatad added.
‘Nothing new’
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, one of those imprisoned during the martial law years, said it was ”too bad that Ramos noticed the return of the Marcos cronies only now.”
”Some of them returned to power during the time of Cory, some during his own administration, and, of course, they’re back in many places now. There’s nothing new in that,” Pimentel said.
Enrile said Ramos might as well blame democracy for the return of the cronies.
”We embrace democracy, and I don’t think you can enjoin or prohibit or prevent anyone to engage in a quest for power, honor–or wealth, for that matter–unless there is a law enacted by Congress constitutionally allowing the interdiction of any person from engaging in (such) a quest,” Enrile said.
He said it was an ”accepted fact that friends or foes, after Edsa, will be allowed to engage in politics, and these include the Marcos forces.”Enrile added that with the way democracy worked, it was now ”up to the people to decide if they want these Marcos elements or allies or cronies to get back into power.”
”If they do, that’s the operation of democracy,” he said.
Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. noted that Marcos ”developed a lot of political leaders” during his time, and that voters should not be blamed if they still found these leaders acceptable.
Sen. Gregorio Honasan, considered another Edsa hero, preferred to downplay Ramos’ and other comments about what took place 13 years ago.
”We should not complicate warnings issued by each administration that chooses to color Edsa other than for what it is. Edsa should not be colored by partisan politics,” he said.
Surprise
For all that, Sen. Raul Roco considers Ramos’ statement ”a very good comment.”
”It is also politically surprising because you will now see that the Edsa roots–Cory and Ramos–are now declaring a breakaway from the non-Edsa roots of Estrada,” Roco said.
”It is not party-based. But you can see that Ramos is saying that ‘All these guys we defeated are creeping back. They are the guys we were saved from by the people.”’
Sen. Sergio Osmeña III, who was ordered detained by the strongman during martial law, said that while the situation had not yet deteriorated into one where freedom and civil liberties were again under threat, ”we are now faced with the danger of seeing crony capitalism rear its ugly head again.”
‘Traitor’
The militant groups reserved their comments for Mr. Estrada.
”Acting as the laundryman of the Marcoses and their cronies, Mr. Estrada whitewashed their cases, ironed-out the recovery of their ill-gotten wealth, and brought them back to power,” Karapatan secretary general Marie Hilao-Enriquez said at a news conference.
”We cringe in disgust and anger as the Marcoses and their cronies again flaunt their wealth and power, as if the Edsa revolt never happened.”
Enriquez also said that while Marcos imposed martial law eight years after he came into power, Mr. Estrada wanted it done as early as eight months after taking over the presidency.
She cited as proof the proposed mandatory filing of statements of assets and liabilities, expanded rules on warrantless arrest, national ID system and scrapping of the minimum wage law.
Teddy Casiño, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan deputy secretary general, said the President had an ”attitude problem”–”the attitude of a budding dictator.”
”We are commemorating the 13th anniversary of the Edsa uprising by vigorously exposing and protesting the treachery of the Estrada regime against the Filipino people,” Enriquez said.
By Cristina Arzadon, PDI Northern Luzon Bureau and Cathy C. Yamsuan, with a report from Christine Herrera – Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 24, 1999
Here’s the link to the story.
Zat says
Nice selection of pictures and with the very direct subject plus a picture of ex-CJ Corona (as a forum speaker) along with Bongbong, it almost establishes something more knowing that you know how Filipinos think. Oh Raissa.
aLL_lies says
Magkano bang binigay sa yo for this “article”? This “article” is so opinionated coming from someone who is clearly biased, why state it here? Do more research and write articles in an unbiased point of view.
raissa says
Eto basahin mo.
Sagot ko sa yo.
http://raissarobles.com/2015/10/13/thank-you-philippine-daily-inquirer-for-mentioning-my-marcos-piece-in-todays-editorial/
Alan says
“Do more research” daw coming from a jobless, witless and hopeless Marcos trolloyalist loser who undoubtedly failed all its high school subjects, assuming it could afford education (it probably could, by redoubling its snatching efforts in Cubao).
CavenDish says
LMAO! Always nailing it where it hurts the most, sir Alan!
Always a great source of laughter for me to read your comments, be it on FB or anywhere else.
And as usual, great article ma’am Raissa. It’s always fun to see the Marcoses getting caught in their own web of lies.
dzandueta says
If you want people to take you seriously, then use your real name next time. Being an anonymous coward to insinuate someone will not help you.
cha says
Thr name serves as warning. Or confession? All Lies.
pal says
Matatalino sila pero parang hindi nila naulinigan ang kuwentong barbero na nagtalo si makoy at ginang imelda tungkol sa 10percent lang ang parte ng kita ng pera ng gobyernong pilipinas na idiniposito sa ibang bansa at ang 90percent daw naman na kita ay pupunta sa bansang pinas. (Weird) di ba? Yan daw ang kasulatan na ginawa ni apo makoy na inangalan ni madam imelda pero nanaig pa rin daw ang kagustuhan ni apo makoy sa pagi insist na “malaki na yang 10percent na yan..hindi natin kayang ubusin yan kahit pa ang mga kaapoapuhan natin..” at ang mga signatory daw dito ay isa si bbm. Hehe. Malay natin baka nga tutoo ang kuwentong barbero na ito. Baka nagsisiguro lang si makoy na maibalik sa bansang pinas ang pera kaysa mapunta kung kanikanino. Malaki talaga ang 90percent na tubo ng bansang pinas, bukod pa sa principal nito. Mabuhay ang pilipinas…magkatutoo sana ang kuwentong barbero…..
raissa says
hehehe.
may sira-ulong nanaginip bawat oras.
Rolly says
Baligtad. Gusto ni Imelda, 10%. Gusto ni Marcos 90% ang kamkamin nila.
Jericho says
aLL-Lies – I wonder why you chose that name, interesting? Anyway, instead of accusing her of being a paid whack, why don’t you just contest her article point by point also with facts and prove that she is biased. It seems you have researched about it because you are challenging her to do more research. That is a very general comment kasi, “do more research”. If you have a counter to it, give us that benefit to know. Malay mo she might be enlightened and most of us too. Very bold kasi challenge mo to research and for you to prove that you can stand up for what you said above, lay everything down. Otherwise, it’s all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Mary says
https://yesferdinandmarcosruinedthephilippines.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/chronology-of-the-marcos-plunder/
Yes, Ferdinand Marcos Ruined the Philippines – Just setting the record straight
Mary says
https://yesferdinandmarcosruinedthephilippines.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/chronology-of-the-marcos-plunder/
Yes, Ferdinand Marcos Ruined the Philippines – Just setting the record straight
September 1976, the Marcoses bought their first property in the U.S. – a condo in the exclusive Olympic Towers on Fifth Avenue in New York . Five months later they would also buy the three adjoining apartments, paying a total of $4,000,000.00 for the four and using Antonio Floirendo’s company, The Aventures Limited in Hong Kong, as front for these purchases.
October 13, 1977. Today, after addressing the UN General Assembly, Imelda celebrated by going shopping and spending $384,000 including $50,000 for a platinum bracelet with rubies; $50,000 for a diamond bracelet; and $58,000 for a pin set with diamonds.
The day before, Vilma Bautista, one of her private secretaries, paid $18,500 for a gold pendant with diamonds and emeralds; $9,450 for a gold ring with diamonds and emeralds; and $4,800 for a gold and diamond necklace.
October 27, 1977. The Marcoses donated $1.5 million to Tufts University in Boston, endowing a professorial chair in East Asian and Pacific Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The students and professors discovered this and forced the school to reject the donation. To save face, the Marcoses were allowed to finance several seminars and lectures.
November 2, 1977. Still at her shopping spree, Imelda paid $450,000 for a gold necklace and bracelet with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds; $300,000 for a gold ring with emeralds and diamonds; and $300,000 for a gold pendant with diamonds, rubies, and thirty-nine emeralds.
July 1978. After a trip to Russia, Imelda arrived in New York and immediately warmed up for a shopping spree. She started with paying $193,320 for antiques, including $12,000 for a Ming Period side table; $24,000 for a pair of Georgian mahogany Gainsborough armchairs; $6,240 for a Sheraton double-sided writing desk; $11,600 for a George II wood side table with marble top – all in the name of the Philippine consulate to dodge New York sales tax.
That was merely for starters.
A week later she spent $2,181,000.00 in one day! This included $1,150,000 for a platinum and emerald bracelet with diamonds from Bulgari; $330,000 for a necklace with a ruby, diamonds, and emeralds; $300,000 for a ring with heart-shaped emeralds; $78,000 for 18-carat gold ear clips with diamonds; $300,000 for a pendant with canary diamonds, rubies and emeralds on a gold chain.
After New York, she dropped by Hong Kong where a Cartier representative admitted it was this Filipina, Imelda, who had put together the world’s largest collection of gems – in 1978.
May 1979 The Marcos couple celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in a party that cost $5,000,000.00 There was a silver carriage drawn by eight white horses.
November 23, 1978 A house was purchased at 4 Capshire Drive in Cherry Hill , New Jersey (actually near to Philadelphia where Bongbong was taking courses at that time) for use by servants and Bongbong’s security detachment. The Marcoses did not neglect their annual real estate purchase. During this year and next year, 1979, they purchased two properties – one at 3850 Princeton Pike, Princeton – a 13-acre estate for use by daughter Imee as she attended Princeton.
The other was a house at 19 Pendleton Drive in Cherry Hill for use of Bongbong and under the name of Tristan Beplat, erstwhile head of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.
April 1979 in two days in New York this month, Imelda spent $280,000 for a necklace wet with emeralds and diamonds; $18,500 for a yellow gold evening bag with one round cut diamond; $8,975.20 for 20-carat gold ear clips with twenty-four baguette diamonds; $8,438.10 for 18-carat gold ear clips with fifty-two tapered baguette diamonds; and $12,056.50 for 20 carat gold ear clips with diamonds.
June 1980. For $1,577,000.00 in New York Imelda buys Webster Hotel on West 45th Street . She rewards Gen. Romeo Gatan as a limited partner. Gatan arrested Ninoy at the beginning of Martial Law.
The insurgents’ ranks grew by twenty percent a year. . Meritorious officers in the armed forces experienced low moral due to Marcos’ penchant for promoting friends over more deserving officers.
February 16, 1986. In Fe’s records of monies paid out during Marcos’ last campaign, one unusually large item was authorized by “FL” (First Lady) and paid to Assemblyman Arturo Pacificador on this day. A few days later, two carloads of men drove into San Jose, the provincial capital of Antique.
Evelio Javier, head of Aquino’s campaign, was watching the votes being counted when the men opened fire and killed Evelio after he was still able to run through town but finally got cornered in a public toilet where he was gunned down in front of shocked townspeople. Pacificador was later convicted of the murder.
February 25, 1986. Marcos fled the Philippines leaving behind a foreign debt of $27 billion and a bureaucracy gone mad. “Cash advances” for the elections from the national treasury amounted to Php 3.12 billion ($150 million). The Central Bank printed millions of peso bills, many with the same serial number. Sixty million pesos in newly printed bills were found in a vehicle owned by Imelda’s brother Bejo in the Port Area of Manila, and another Php 100 million aboard the MV Legaspi also owned by Bejo Romualdez.
How massive and humongous a loot Marcos took can be deduced from the known losses he left behind. The known losses he left at the Central Bank included $1.2 billion in missing reserves and $6 billion in the Special Accounts.
Imelda charged off most of her spending sprees to the PNB or Philippine National Bank which creatively wrote off her debts as “unresponded transfers”.
Ver also used PNB funds to finance his “intelligence” operations.
The known losses at the PNB amounted to Php72.1 billion.
At the DBP, the losses Marcos left behind totaled Php85 billion; at the Philguarantee, it was Php 6.2 billion ;
and at the NIDC or National Investment and Development Corporation (NDC) – the losses amounted to Php 2.8 billion.
These losses were primarily due to cronyism – giving loans to cronies that had little or no collateral, whose corporations were undercapitalized, whose loan proceeds were not used for the avowed purpose, and where the practice of corporate layering was common, i.e. using two or more companies with the same incorporators and officers, whereby one company which gives the loan owns the company which obtains the loan, or similar arrangements.
The cronies enjoyed their closeness to Marcos. With him they formed a Grand Coalition. They participated in the exercise of dictatorship. But Marcos owned them. The wealth of the cronies belonged to him. Because of the free rides taken by Imelda, Marcos and the cronies, the Philippine Airlines was in debt by $13.8 billion.
The conservative Grand Total for losses Marcos left behind (and therefore the kind of loot he grabbed and hid) amounted to $17.1 billion. The Central Bank, the PNB, and other financial institutions badly need an audit. The special review (not regular audit because there seems not to have been any – there are no records anyway) did not uncover Imelda’s spending – her name never appeared – and Ver’s intelligence fund. The review gave no hint of theft or missing money, only “downward adjustments” and “proposed adjustments” to “deficiencies” and “shortages of money”.
February 26, 1986. A few hours after the Marcos party landed in Honolulu, their luggage arrived – 300 crates on board a C-141 cargo jet. It took twenty-five customs officers five hours to tag the bags and identify the contents. The process was videotaped because of all the money and jewelry found inside.
There were 278 crates of jewelry and art worth an estimated US$5 million. Twenty-two crates contained more than Php27.7 million in newly minted currency, mostly hundred-peso denominations worth approximately US $1,270,000. 00 (It was illegal at that time for anyone to depart the Philippines carrying more than Php500 in cash.)
There were other certificates of deposit from Philippine banks worth about US$1 million, five handguns, 154 videotapes, seventeen cassette tapes, and 2,068 pages of documents – all of which were impounded by Customs.
The Marcos party was allowed to keep only US$300,000.00 in gold and $150,000.00 in bearer bonds that they brought in with their personal luggage because they declared them and broke no US customs laws.
There were 24 one-kilo gold bars fitted into 2 0$17,000 hand-tooled Gucci briefcase with a solid gold buckle and a plaque on it that read, “To Ferdinand Marcos, from Imelda, on the Occasion of our 24th Wedding Anniversary.”
February 1986. When Marcos departed the Philippines, the losses in the three Central Bank accounts surpassed Php 122 billion (more than $6 billion). The big bulk of losses was attributed to the RIR account mainly due to two items: forward cover and swap contracts.
Forward cover referred to foreign exchange provided by the CB at a fixed exchange rate to importers of essential commodities. Swap contracts referred to CB’s receiving foreign exchange from banks in exchange for pesos at the prevailing rate with a promise to deliver the foreign exchange back to them at an agreed future date. There was no mention of losses due to CB transactions in gold or foreign exchange.
February 28, 1986. On this day, Jim Burke, security expert from the US Embassy, was tapping on the wooden paneling in Imelda’s abandoned Malacanang bedroom when he heard a hollow sound. It was the walk-in vault. Inside were thirty-five suitcases secured with locks and tape.
They contained a treasure trove of documents about Swiss bank accounts, New York real estate, foundations in Vaduz , and some notepaper on which Marcos had practiced his William Saunders signature. They also contained jewelry valued at some US$10.5 million.
March 16, 1986. Did Marcos steal any gold from the CB? The CB always refused to comment. Why?
Today, the LA Times reported that 6.325 metric tons of gold was unaccounted for in the Central Bank. Between 1978, the year Marcos ordered all gold producers to sell only to the CB, and end 1984, the Bureau of Mines reported that 124,234 pounds of gold were refined. But the CB reported receiving only 110,319 pounds during this same period.
That left a difference of 13,915 pounds (6.325 metric tons).
March 1986. Jokingly referring to themselves as the Office of National Revenge, a vigilante team led by Charlie Avila and Linggoy Alcuaz received a tip in the morning that Marcos’ daughter Imee had kept a private office in the suburb of Mandaluyong at 82 Edsa. They obtained a search warrant, then rushed to Camp Crame to pick up some soldiers.
After devising a plan, they boarded four cars and drove to the premises, arriving around midnight. The soldiers scaled a fence and sealed off the area. Avila , Alcuaz, and their men moved in and found documents in cardboard boxes, desks, and filing cabinets. Gunfire could be heard outside but it didn’t deter the search.
The documents revealed the names of offshore companies and overseas investments of Marcos and his cronies – a late link in the paper trail that had been started abroad by the teams of Avila, Steve Psinakis, Sonny Alvarez, Raul Daza, Boni Gillego, and Raul Manglapus.
March 09, 1986. A Greek-American, Demetrios Roumeliotes, was stopped at the Manila International Airport before he could leave with eight large envelopes stuffed with jewelry that he admitted belonged to Imelda – valued at US$4.7 million.
March 15, 1986. Ernie Maceda, Minister of Natural Resources, revealed today that some 7 to 14 tons of Philippine gold are sold to the Binondo Central Bank annually and then smuggled to Sabah , Malaysia – this gold being part of some 20 tons produced by 200,000 panners all over the country. Maceda’s query was whether part of the gold they produced was siphoned to the “invisible gold hoard of Ms. Imelda R. Marcos.”
“We deliver to the Central Bank,” the miners said. “If it happened (the siphoning), it happened in the Central Bank.”
Is it true that Marcos propagated the Yamashita myth to hide the fact that he looted the Central Bank, that its gold bars were melted down and recast in odd-size bars to make them look old (how does gold look old, anyway?). Marcos claimed that he “received the surrender of Gen. Yamashita” after a battle with his guerrilla outfit.
History has recorded that Yamashita surrendered to Lt. Co. Aubrey Smith Kenworthy and that there was no battle. Yamashita’s peaceful surrender had been arranged at least two weeks before the event.
In one entry in Marcos’ diary he noted, “I often wonder what I will be remembered for in history. Scholar? Military hero…?” In a supreme irony, he did achieve what he so vainly sought – lasting fame – but not in the way he envisioned:
The largest human rights case in history – 10,000 victims.
Guinness Book of Records – the world’s greatest thief.
The largest monetary award in history – $22 billion.
September 30, 1986. Questioned by Philippine and US lawyers about his hidden wealth, Marcos took the Fifth Amendment 197 times. Imelda followed suit – 200 times.
December 1989. An American jury found the Marcos estate liable for $15 million in the killing of anti-Marcos activists Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo. Manglapus, Psinakis, Gillego and other erstwhile exile oppositionists testified at the trial.
November 04, 1991. Today, a Sunday, the circus came to town. The Swiss Federal Tribunal had ruled the year before that the Philippine government must comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, especially due process. There had to be a lawsuit filed within one year. Thus, the solicitor general’s office filed all sorts of cases against Imelda and the government had to allow her to return to answer the charges.
“I come home penniless,” she tearfully said on arrival. She then repaired to her suite at the Philippine Plaza Hotel which cost $2,000 a day and rented sixty rooms for her entourage – American lawyers, American security guards and American PR firms.
December 1991. The Central Bank had accumulated losses of Php324 billion in the Special Accounts.
November 30, 1992. The Central Bank losses were Php561 billion and climbing. Cuisia asked that the CB be restructured. Sen. Romulo asked to see the 1983 audit of the international reserves. He couldn’t get a copy. It was “restricted”.
January 05, 1993. Imelda didn’t show up for the scheduled signing of a new PCGG agreement. She kept vacillating on the terms and conditions – demanding she be allowed to travel abroad for thirty-three days to confer with bank officials in Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong and Morocco to work out the transfer of the frozen funds.
Actually she was hoping a guy she had authorized, J.T.Calderon, would be able to move the funds just as the order was lifted, before the government had a chance to transfer them to Manila . When the government discovered the authority, all negotiations with Imelda were halted and her requests for travel suspended.
August 10, 1993. Georges Philippe, a Swiss lawyer of Imelda, wrote today a confidential letter to the Marcoses’ old Swiss lawyer, Bruno de Preux, who handled almost all of the Marcos family’s hidden accounts in Switzerland . Philippe requested de Preux for the status of:
A $750 million account with United Mizrahi Bank in Zurich ;
Various currency and gold deposits at the Union Bank of Switzerland , at Kloten airport and at Credit Suisse;
A $356 million account (now in escrow and worth almost $600 million) which was being claimed by the PCGG.
In 1994, the human rights jury awarded the victims $1.2 billion in exemplary damages, then $766.4 million in compensatory damages a year after that, for a total of $1.964 billion. Two days after, another $7.3 million was awarded to twenty-one Filipinos in a separate lawsuit.
In 1995, the US Supreme Court upheld the $1.2 billion judgment.
March 29, 1995. The Swiss Parliament passed a law (an amendment to a previous act) that removed the need for a final judgment of criminal conviction of the accused (such as the Marcoses) in the case of criminally acquired assets which could now therefore be returned to claimants (such as the Philippine government) by Swiss court order.
July 1996. In part because of the torture of Roger Roxas, $22 billion was awarded to his Golden Budha Corporation.
December 10, 1997. The Swiss Supreme Court promulgated a landmark decision that took into account the March 1995 Swiss Parliament act and the fact that new criminal cases had been filed against Imelda Marcos.
The court held that there was no need for any criminal proceeding; that a civil or administrative proceeding would suffice, and the Marcos Swiss deposits which had been “criminally acquired” can be returned to the Philippines in deference to the final judgment of the Philippine court as to the ownership of these deposits.
The Swiss court also announced that the interest and reputation of Switzerland was at stake if it would become a haven for money launderers laundering money obtained by crime. Therefore, in the case of the Marcos deposits, because “the illegal source of the assets in this case cannot be doubted” the Swiss court ordered that the money be returned to the Philippines to be held in escrow account in the PNB to await the judgment of the Sandiganbayan in the forfeiture case.
By the way, in January 17, 1975, a secret decree not made public until after the Edsa insurrection was signed by Marcos stating that in the event he became incapacitated or died, power would be turned over to Imelda.
On June 7, 1975, in his own handwriting, Marcos amended the January 17th decree and clarified imelda’s role as chairperson of committee with presidential powers.
In February 1979, Imelda was named chairman of the cabinet committee, composed of all ministries, to launch the BLISS (Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services) program, an ambitious attempt to centralize control of all economic and social development. She assumed responsibility for the “11 needs of Man” codified in her ministry’s multi-year Human Settlements Plan,1978-2000.
By 1986, the number of Filipinos living below the poverty line doubled from 18 million in 1965 to 35 million. And the ecological balance of the country had degraded from 75 % to 27% forest cover remaining – with 39 million acres of forest falling victim to rampant logging. This was BLISS.
She was also the head of the Metro Manila Commission, which by year-end 1985 had managed to accumulate debts of Php 1.99 billion (which included $100 million in foreign loans) in its ten years of existence. Imelda had accomplished nothing and left the people embittered and even more disillusioned.
In September 1992 Marcos was found guilty of violating the human rights of 10,000 victims. The ruling occurred just after a judge found Imee Marcos-Manotoc guilty of the torture and murder of Archimedes Trajano, a 21 year old engineering student at Mapua who had the temerity to ask Imee after a speech she gave whether the Kabataang Barangay (a national youth group) “must be headed by the president’s daughter?”
Imee and brother Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. have been active in the political scene. Bongbong, who finished 3 terms as Ilocos Norte governor, is now running for Senator under Presidential bet, Manny Villar’s senatorial slate.. he’s been quoted as saying that if given a chance, he’d like to run for President one day…(gads).
Bongbong is now a Senator, Imelda is Governor of Ilocos Norte and Imee is in Congress. The MARCOSES are back in full force thanks to our “despicable amnesia” as aptly described by the eminent writer, F. Sionil Jose.
PLEASE PASS THIS IMPORTANT PART OF PHIL HISTORY TO YOUR FRIENDS, SO WE WILL NOT FORGET…
SOURCE: http://asianjournalusa.com/chronology-of-the-marcos-plunder-p10909-67.htm
babe says
dyosko naiyak ako sa binasa ko…anong pagkagahaman at pagkaganid ng mga taong ito na walang takot sa diyos at walang pagmamahal sa kapwa-tao..nakakapangilabot!! nakakaawa ang mga mangmang na pinipikit ang mga mata sa pagkahidhid ng mga marcos! basahin nyo to.. nakakapanindig-balahibo!! saka nyo sabihin na sila ang dapat mamuno sa pilipinas…maawa naman kayo sa magiging kinabukasan ng mga anak at apo nyo!!
Mary says
kaya nga, babe, mag tulong tulong tayo na maipaliwanag ito sa mas nakakarami para malinawan din sila, para di na uli makabalik ang alin man sa mga Marcos family sa gobyerno.
NEVER AGAIN!
ml says
I’ll say it again.. Never again!
miguel patron says
sana mabasa din ito ng kasalukuyang pangulo at magising sa paniniwalang dapat i-idolize si marcos
Luntiang Balaraw says
A well written piece… I was browsing through the comments and all i can say is… wow.. A lot of Loyalist Macoytards and historical idiots who romanticize Martial Law as the best thing that ever happened to the Philippines still abounds. We need more articles like this to enlighten the youths. To prevent the return of the Marcos to Malacanang.
raissa says
Thanks for reading.
Do watch out for the coming pieces on the same topic.
Mary says
Thank you, raissa and allan for your tireless effort to help the Filipinos (with short memories and attention span) remember the accurate events of that period of our history. We will help in any way we can. The DEPED should have dome more so that our youth who were born after that dark years would not fall prey to the Marcos propaganda.
BTW, I had a rather long link that went under moderation entitled “Marcos Graft Staggering”
Investigators Trace Billions in Holdings
March 23, 1986 |By John Crewdson, Chicago Tribune.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-03-23/news/8601210600_1_jose-y-campos-eduardo-cojuangco-ferdinand-marcos/3
Did the link violate something?
dzandueta says
Looking forward to those. :)
Marietta Gapud says
Raissa thank you so much for patiently educating Marcos loyalists and further propagating the plague of amnesia among our millenials. we are all behind you for the sake of accurate journalism.
raissa says
Thank you, Marietta.
simplydblues says
I was searching for the book Conjugal Dictatorship by Mijarez when I stumbled upon this article.
I want my son to be enlightened with the facts about how marcos plundered the Philippines during his presidency because I was surprised to hear from him that their professor is telling them that marcos was the best president we had. Just like the Kob he believed that!
Anyway, this article is really interesting and I sent the link to my son for him to realize that what he thought about marcos are all lies. But I also have to admit that the comments amused me much which makes me think that the marcos years must be thought also in schools so the young generation would know what martial law has done to us and in order for us not to commit the same mistakes.
john says
This is what I say!!!!
No matter what
Na matter how
No matter when
Marcos is the best president in Philippine presidency of all time….
raissa says
Tsk, tsk, tsk
Alan says
Moron pa rin / Moron pa rin
Parekoy says
Sabi nga ng biyenan mong si Donya Delilah,
“Kaya ikaw John, magsumikap ka!”
:)
ayan na si Matu at itataboy ka na…
leslie agoncillo says
mr john “doe”or whoever you are. How old are you? I am now 64 years old. i was there when marcos started to implement his martial law strategy. it was a grand plan. very meticulous, very well executed. it was an evil plan and much worse there were so many evil men who connived with marcos. Anyway, before i get ahead of my story.let me say that in the early years of marcos rule he really was very good, very effective, and yes the best president the philippines ever had. there is one detail though that you failed to write – and it should go —-the best presidency during his LEGAL TERM! all these good things he did came to naught WHEN HE EXTENDED his term through martial law.
I was then 17 or 18 years old. i was once impressed with this ferdinand marcos. but once they started arresting my friends, and then i never heard from them again even to this day. that’s when i was convinced that there was something wrong with this presidency. i guess i was never arrested because my father was in the government then holding some key position and that gave me a blanket i only realized many years after.
i was one of those who went to malacanan and even stormed it. yes i did join up with this group. mind you i was not an activist per se like a kabataang makabayan or anything like that. i just joined these demonstrations because i believed and i would have very heated discussions with my father who told me that our leaders – barican, especially, were being paid and funded by marcos to sow fear among the citizenry – so he can declare martial law because we were being overrun by communists. like the bobotantes of binay the masa bought this junk and so we had martial law!
now pray tell mr john. how could marcos be the best of all time? in his “extended term” the exchange rate jumped from P8 to $1 to P16 to P1 and so much farther down. He did have the best technocrats surround him but what happened to these technocrats? they became his puppets, and worse they became part of his machinery which to this day exists and still tries to perpetrate his kind of economics- which is to control all kinds of income from the government agencies and get their 70% cut. what remains for the public is the remaining 30%. this is the current practice, a legacy of marcos.
So mr john before you write or talk about how great marcos for that matter any man is. please do your research and back them up with facts!!!
kahit ano pa yan. says
Marcos. Nagnakaw pero madami nagawa. Karamihan ng opisyales nagnakaw pero walang nagawa. Daming planong ndi natuloy si marcos dahil nabulag ang mga pinoy sa kagandahan ng polisiya ni marcos. Pasakit at paghihirap nung panahon na un ang laging nakikita. Daing ng daing. Ayaw nyang makuha ng iba ang kapangyarihan baka kasi alam nyang mapapabayaan ang pilipinas kung yun nga iyon. Ndi sya ngkamali napaka bulok na ng systema ng pilipinas. Mahirap lng iwanan ang pilipinas dahil akoy isang pinoy. Umaasa pa din ako na magbabago ang systema dito. Walang direction. yumayaman lalo ang mayayaman. Hindi ako maka marcos or kung sino man ibang iba lng talaga ung pamamalakad nya. If theres a man who can do something great i think bong bong marcos is the perfect man for it.
raissa says
Ninakaw niya ang hinaharap ng mga anak o magiging anak mo. OK lang sa yo yon?
Alan says
Marcos. Nagnakaw pero ang daming pinapatay. At tinorture. At kinulong ng walang basehan.
[email protected] says
Ang galing po! Dami ko pong natutunan :>> wait ko po yung next na blog nyo hehe :))
raissa says
Sure.
Meanwhile. sala ka sa mga diskusyon dito.
kob says
kung corrupt at scumbag si MACOY, ano na lng kaya si aquino
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raissa says
Ano?
Vhin AB says
Eh di kabaligtaran ni Macoy si Aquino. Walang ninakaw sa bayan. Walang pinapatay. Hindi nang-abuso while in power. Saka wala sa Guiness record sa laki ng kinulimbat sa kaban ng bayan.
Inggit na inggit ang mga Marcos sa Aquino. Biro mo na napatalsik si Apo Marcos ni Cory. Sobrang kapipigil kay Ninoy na mapalitan siya hayun at ang babae ang pumalit. To add more salt to Marcoses’ wound ay naging pangulo rin si Noynoy. Ang masakit pa ay hindi pa napapalitan ang pangalan ni Marcos sa isa sa pinakamalaking ninanakaw sa kasaysayan ng mundo.
Alan says
Poor kob, poor twisted silly boy. We — Filipinos and the world — can access mountains of evidence about the crimes and douchebaggery of your scumbag idol: the details of his murderous regime, his plunder, his deceits. We have eyewitnesses, we have victims testimonies, we have cronies testimonies, we have government and non-government reports, financial institution reports, media stories, copies of your idol’s secret Swiss bank account certificates, the actual looted jewelry, paintings, property abroad. They’ll always be there in the archives and on the Internet. And what do YOU have? Lies. Incredibly crude, fabricated “facts.” A list of buildings and projects that you didn’t even compile, you just got it from someone else. Lie and deny. That pretty much sums up the ebolaloyalists
andrew lim says
kung madaling mauto at namimili lang ng babasahin si naddy ano na lng kaya si kob
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vander says
napakaliwanag kob,
bayani.
si ninoy.
si cory.
at noynoy.
nakakaawa nga si makoy. intelehente. bar topnocher. sharpshooter. daming medal kahit gawa-gawaan lang.
hayun. character.
wax na ngayon.
genius na walang legacy.
meron pala.
2nd sa mundo. most corrupt and biggest plunderer.
Ken Warren says
Good day Ms. Raissa. Your blog is well written and very informative. It just saddens to realize that there really is an abundance of misinformation and pro Marcos propaganda that has spread through the minds of these loyalists. The fact that FM has been declared one of the most corrupt leaders in world history should make anyone deplore the Martial Law era. Definitely one of the darkest ages in our Philippine history. Thankfully, we ( the Phils) are already on the verge of growth and positive change. I, being an OFW based in Australia, am very excited to be part of something that will bring our country back to the top. I support your cause Ms Raissa Robles! Never again for Marcos!
raissa says
Thanks, Ken,
Do come over and join the discussions.
Raissa
andrew lim says
Ito request ko sa mga batang Marcos loyalist na nagsulputan dito:
Pakitanong nga kay Imelda at Bongbong:
#SaanGalingAngPeraMo
kob says
nababara na ata sila, ang dami kong lists,comments,reply dto pero di naipopost :)
Alan says
Ho hum
Jovito Osias says
Paano kahit aso hindi babasahin yang listahan mo.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
vander says
ano kayang ipinaglilista nito?
kung magkano ang commission sa bnpp?
magkano ang dekwat sa picc?
magkano ang harbat sa mga center-center?
magkano ang kawat sa treasure na kinamkam?
ang pronouncement ni Imeldific nuong makabalik na sa Pinas,” practically, we own the philippines!”
wow, lupeeeet.
panis ang mga hari at reyna sa europa!
Alan says
In 1984, the US State Department said in a report that the New People’s Army had grown in strength to up to 15,000 armed regulars. “The reason for its growth was Marcos and his policies. In particular, the report noted that the regime’s corruption, failed economic policies, repression, and authoritarian rule were the sources of the NPA’s appeal.” – David F. Schmitz, “The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships”. Cambridge University Press, 2006. p. 234
Parekoy says
Ano ang Parusa sa mga Marcos? Utot or Kurot?
Sa tagal ng panahon ay di pa nabibigyan ng hutisya ang ating bayan sa mga pinatay at tinorture noong panahon ng Martial Law at pati na ang pagnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan. Nakulong na si Enrile, Jinggoy, at Bong, at ngayon naman eh namumuro na si Binay, pero si Bongbong, Imelda at kanilang angkan ay patuloy na nabubuhay ng malaya, marangya, at makapangyarihan at pilit na binabaon ang kanilang kabuktutan at gusto pang baguhin ang istorya ng nakaraan para sa kanilang pagsubok na makatunton ulit sa Malacanyang.
Matagal na ang panahon at wala na atang lakas at napagod na ang mga dating lumalaban sa mga Marcos para humingi ng hustisya.
Kung si Satur Ocampo na halos patayin ang buong pamilya ni Marcos eh ipinagbili na ang kanyang kaluluwa sa pakikianib ng pwersa sa pulitika kay Bongong, at may misteryo pa sa walang aksyon ni Aquino na buksan muli ang mga kaso ng pandarambong ng mga Marcos, ano ba talaga ang plano ng ating gobyerno at Taumbayan sa usaping Marcos?
Si Satur Ocampo siguro eh pinera na lang at may secret settlement galing sa mga Marcos. Uso yan sa Amerika, yung settled na at huwag ng isulong ang kaso dahil may napagkasunduan ng bayad.
Ito ring misteryo na nababalot kung bakit ni walang ingay ang administrasyong Aquino sa paghanap ng hustisya sa kanyang yumaong amang Ninoy pati na sa mga nasawing naglahong mga nilikida ng mga Marcos sa panahon ng Martial Law, at ang masigasig na ipagpatuloy ang paghabol sa mga kinulimbat na bilyones na ninakaw ng mga Marcos na ngayon ay ginagamit sa pagbili sa medya, mga hurado, mga pulitiko para mabura ang at di lumabas muli at mapag-usapan ng ating lipunan ang kanilang salot sa pagpapaphirap sa ating Taumbayan at pati na sa mga hindi pa isinisilang, dala ng epekto ng kanilang malawakang kurapsyon at pagnanakaw.
Siguro may kaalaman dyan si Paquito Ochoa, na partner sa MOST Law Office. At pwede ring mahilot dahil sa pinsan ni Louise si Mar Roxas.
Eto ang mga partners o founders ng MOST Law Office:
M = Marcos (Louise Araneta, a cousin of Mar Araneta Roxas), asawa ni Bongbong. Former GF ni Puno sa Ateneo.
O = Ochoa (Paquito), Executive Secretry ni Aquino, dating QC administrator ni Speaker Belmonte at isa sa leader ng Noy-Bi sa LP Samar faction.
S = Serapio (Edward), nakulong ng dalawang taon dahil sa Erap Plunder Case at sya ang nagtatag ng ERAP Muslim Youth Foundation. Nasan na nga pala yung P200,000,000 sa Erap Foundation? Erap is Marcos Loyalist, go figure na surrogate ni Erap para sa pagtanggol sa mga Marcoses. Si Erap kasama na si Tabako ang dahilan at nakauwi at nakabalik ang mga Marcoses na wala man lang isang kurot galing sa gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Napaka talino ni Edward, Valedictorian yan sa Ateneo de Manila Law School, a seminarian, and a bar topnocher. Nakurap na rin ng sistema lalo na ng makadkit kay Erap.
T =Tan (Joseph), former Special Counse of Agus Cruz & Manzano Law Firm and Puno and Puno Law Firm. Maybe catering for the Chinese clients.
Sa akin lang siguro para naman kahit na konti eh tayo ay makabawi at ang mga Marcoses eh may masabing pinagbayaran na nila ang kanilang mga kasalanan, ang mungkahi ko eh papiliin sila ng ating parusa.
Ang aking mungkahing parusa sa mga Marcoses, simula kay Imelda, mga anak nyang si Bongbong, Imee, at Irene, pati na ang mga apo ni Makoy eh papiliin sila sa parusang kaya nila.
1. Utot
Bawat miyembro ng pamilya Marcos eh may oxygen mask na nakakabit sa kontrapsion na imbakan ng utot. Bawat Pilipino ay uutot sa mukha nila. Pag natapos makapag-utot ang 100,000,000 Pilipino sa mukha nila eh
2. Kurot
Bawat miyembro ng pamilya Marcos eh kukurutin ng 100,000,000 Pilipino. May opsyon ang bawat Pilipino kung ang kukurutin ay kanan o kaliwang mata.
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Pag nangyari yan eh quits na o bayad na ang mga kasalanan nila at isara na natin ang nakaraan.
Ayon ba kayo o approved ba sa inyo ang parusang ito?
Parekoy
08-05-2015
PS
Ngayon ako ay nagsisi kumbkit ko pinigil ang kaibigan kong gusto ng saksakin si Irene noon kami ay nagbisita sa Kuala Lumpur at nagsimba kami at naroon ang mag-asawang Irene at Greggy (Eto ay bago sila bumalik sa Pilipinas at nasa proteksyon ng mga kaibigan ni Marcos na mga Malaysiano…Ano kaya kung pinabayaan ko yon? Maging aral kaya yon? Maging bayad kaya yon? Nagkaron kaya sila ng lakas ng loob na bumalik sa Pilipinas kung may halimbawa na kapalit buhay? Maraming haka-haka pero ang katotohanan ay nakabalik sila ng wala ni isang utot sa mukha, kurot sa mata, o galos sa kalmot ng mga nabiktima ng Martial Law. Ang katotohanan ay sila ay namamayagpag at namumuro pang makabalik sa Malacanyang…Hwag nating payagan at patuloy ang laban sa mga Marcos.
Vhin AB says
Sayang si Ka Satur. Dati ay bilib ako sa katapangan niya kaso noong naging kaanib niya si Bongbong nonng 2010 ay nadismaya ako. Sabi jiya na ang kasalanan daw ng ama ay hindi naman naipapasa sa anak.
Ang hindi ko maintindihan kay Ka Satur ay alam niya ang mga pinaggagawa ni Bongbong noong panahon ng dikatadurya. At ngayon nga ay nakikibang ang anak sa mga ninakaw ng tatay niya.
Ayaw kong maniwala na nabayaran na si Ka Satur ngunit iba ang nakikita ko sa mga ikinilos at ikinikilos niya.
Hindi pwedeng basta kakalimutan na lamang ang kahayupan na ginawa ni Marcos sa Pilipinas. NEVER AGAIN!
vander says
parekoy, hindi na ako sasama sa uutot.
hindi na rin sasama sa kukurot.
ako na lang ang pinakahuli sa pila, pang 100M.
isang kalamansi lang ang sa akin.
pipigaan ko ng kalamansi kong dala ang kinurot na mga mata nila.
bwahahahaha!