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I was invited by the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center to deliver a speech on the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

I will deconstruct why he is loved to this day.  Or seems to be loved to this day.

I hope some of you can come.

It will be at the UP Diliman Faculty Center conference hall from 9 AM to 12 AM.

But if not, that’s OK.

Comments

  1. An episode during the martial law that our youngsters need to know is about the Agrava Commission created by marcos to determine the people responsible for the assassination of Ninoy in the tarmac of the Manila International Airport on August 21, 1983.

    Marcos himself appointed jurist Corazon Agrava to head a commission to investigate Ninoy’s assassination. After more than a year, the commission concluded in their findings announced in October, 1984, that the assassination of Ninoy was the result of military conspiracy but the sandiganbayan, who was also trying the case as it involved government officials, subsequently ignored said findings and upheld the government’s story that the poor Rolando Galman was the lone assassin. General fabian ver and 24 other officers and one civilian were acquitted in December, 1985.

    Although ultimate responsibility for the dastardly act still had not been clearly determined in the early 1990s, on September 28, 1990, a special court convicted general luther custodio and 15 other officers and enlisted members of the Aviation Security Command of murdering Ninoy and Galman (Excerpt from Phillipines – A Case Study: Library of Congress)

    • …the gunman 31 years ago probably in mid-thirties at the time must be around below 70 years old now…still loose! Alive and kicking a bit…not much.

      Who is he?

      Do not believe Rolando Galman was the shooter…if he got around the ‘secured sanitized’ airport he could have killed so many Avsecom security personnel and got away with it. B.S. story Agravate commission!

      He pusilliero is still on ‘the loose!’ Believe it or not. Being dead he’s still ‘loose’!

  2. huwag na huwag tayong padadaya sa mga palabas ng diktador at ng maluho niyang asawa. mga mapanlinlang na pangakong nakatago sa gintong balatkayo. sila ang ama at ina ng bangungot humagupit sa ating bansa na pansamantalang nagpakita ng magandang panimula ngunit nahantad unti-unti ang tunay na kulay at motibo na galing din sa kanilang kapamaraanan. iyan ang bangungot na magpahanggang ngayon ay nakaakibat sa ating mga pilipino. utang kabi-kabila. mga nagkawala o naipadukot na mga mamamayang nais maghayag ng paniniwala o sariling damdamin laban sa diktaturya. alalahanin natin ang pagkabaril kay Ninoy. kay Evelio Javier. marami sila.
    huwag kalimutang ang diktador ang nagbukas ng kahon ni pandora ng pandarambong.
    huwag tayong magsawang ipaalala sa ating mga anak at apo kung sino ang ugat ng kinasasadlakan natin ngayon.
    huwag tayong padadaya.

    • Moro moro sytem of justice and Marcos just pointed his finger who who will be a leader in a particular place , mayor up to the assembyman ….almost every Generals wer extended of their tenure in the service…..madami pa he he …. Every provincial and town boundaries were also altered during the tenureof Marcos….sa mga crimes of murder and other’s or human right violations madami din noon kay APO … He he .. Magsalita kana against kay Marcos huli ka, kulong ka…

  3. Off Topic?

    News you just don’t read in the mainstream.

    Tech firms release details of US spying of their users

    Facebook, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Yahoo released reports on Monday disclosing that the National Security Agency requested for private information from at least 59,000 user accounts in the first half of last year under orders from a secret court.

    California-based Internet giant Yahoo topped the list as it received requests for “content” from at least 30,000 customers. Yahoo was followed by Microsoft which received user data requests for at least 15,000 accounts.

    At least 9,000 Google accounts, 5,000 Facebook accounts, and 250 LinkedIn accounts were also affected by the US government’s user information requests.

    Source:
    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/02/04/349150/us-spying-tech-firms-release-details/

    • …do not put any bit of asparragusting ‘content’ using the Internet whatever, whenever,wherever,however and whyever! against the security of usa.

      …even here, NSA is monitoring and could even be hicking us…all over; reenderation can happen agh ag h h uh? WTF! he…l p… zioooo…p

      • Heh he heh

        takut ka ha?

        basahin ninyo eto pa-umpisa. kalkalin ninyo ang aburol sa mga lumang mga artikulo ukol sa bosohan at silipan.

        – https://www.eff.org/

        kung gumagamit kayu ng Outlook, Google, Yahoo email programs, gamitan ninyo neto.

        Ex-NSA Computer Scientist Creates Tool To Let You Take Back Emails

        It’s a telling precaution that the creators of Virtru have already considered this possibility, and have been working with lawyers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to draft up a response before something like it might happen. They’ve also created a FAQ in which they promise to fight requests like these in court–unless the warrant is individualized, and cites probable cause.

        Sydney Brownstone
        Monday, February 3, 2014
        Article Link
        http://www.fastcoexist.com/3025683/ex-nsa-computer-scientist-creates-tool-to-let-you-take-back-emails

        Source:
        https://www.eff.org/mention/ex-nsa-computer-scientist-creates-tool-let-you-take-back-emails

        Virtru, a plug-in for Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and Mac Mail built by a former National Security Agency employee to keep messages out of reach from prying government data collectors.

        https://www.virtru.com/

        —

        o magpalit kayu ng email provider ninyo. subukan ninyo eto –

        https://help.riseup.net/en

        • …hahaha, hindi ka takot ha?

          …si ‘Ex’ if he/she was a conspirator with the NSA before; now no more, how sure are you that ‘this possibility’ [only?] allow me to take back my emails ‘SAFELY’?

          …my emails might already have been ‘copied’ TWICE before I took it back! hahaha

          …once a conspirator always a conspirator…never credible.

        • basahin mo uli, kahit na naipadala mo, you can still control from your end whether the un-intended recipient can still open it or not. ONLY by a Key the sender and the intended recipient(s) only know.

          maliban na lang kung cut or copy and paste between two different message consoles/window sent with or w/o Virtru.

  5. The conjugal partnership established a highly profitable “mining” business.

    I truly love William Saunders and Jane Ryan.

    • PICC,FAT,”Palace in the sky”, Metropolitan Theater, Cultural Center, Film Center – Multi-million Pesos went into the construction of these structures and these are barely making money. Metropolitan theater is in a sorry state of neglect for years. These structures are “monuments” of corruption.

  6. I was in grade school through high school during the Marcos era. I was in 1st year college when Marcos was ousted through the People’s Power revolution in 1986. The Marcos era was a DARK era in Davao City for it was literally a killing field. There were “salvagings” & “liquidations” daily. Crimes were rampant. People were wary or even scared to talk openly against the Marcos’s gov’t as well as against the NPAs. Transport strikes that paralyzed the whole city were constant. I remembered times when our family have to subsist on Malunggay dishes because we can’t go anywhere due to transport strikes. Some said it was “more peaceful & prosperous”, probably but it was all superficial since impunity & corruption were the norm then.

    • …in short, you mean catastrophic dictatorship! Why others believed to love it…must be naive and fickle-minded class!

      • Exactly, very disturbing how some Pinoys can be so gullible. All other countries have clearly validated the atrocities & excesses of the Marcoses & yet some Pinoys still blindly love these plunderers. If some of them were too young then or were not yet born during that era then they should at least do some research to verify if the allegations were true or not but no these people are so lazy & just believe the revisionist propaganda of the Marcoses paid by the money looted from the taxpayers then.

        • Yung mga taga ilokos o norte mai-intindihan ko kung gaano nila kamahal ang mga angkan ng marcos.
          Kasi nuong panahon nila talaga naman masagana sa lugar na yun. Pati na ang mga tao na nagtatanggol sa kanila. Syempre nakinabang sila ng husto. Talaga naman marapat lang na ipagtanggol nila kasi yun ang naranasan nila. Hindi sila naghirap, hindi nakulong o na-harass. Palaging pasko kung baga sa dami ng biyaya.
          Pero sa tao na sumalungat sa kanila, yun ang nagdusa at dumanas na hirap. Ang mga tao na malayo sa “kusina” kung baga, sila ang nagutom at nakalimutan.
          Kaya nai-intindihan ko kung bakit ganuon na lang nila ipagtanggol ang angkan na yan. Mga maswerte sila at nagpasasa to the max

        • I think those taga ilocos have been brainwashed. they were told time and again that there are all successful because the marcoses are looking after them. truth is the taga ilocos are successful because they work so damn hard for what they got, sobrang sipag ang mga taga ilocos, tapos the marcoses hitch a ride and said it was all thanks to the marcoses themselves masagana silang lahat.

  7. for a place that calls itself cyber plaza miranda, there sure are a lot of pro marcos comments/peeps.

    • Yes @reader a lot …good memeories that can never be forgotten , but the bottom line was FREEDOM of SPEECH and of the PRESS suppressed during Marcos ERA erased/eradicated all the good deeds Marcos had done to our country and to the Filipino people… Without thie freedom everything was hidden during Marcos time.

    • Haaayyyy. Kakapagod na lang i-engage ang mga kaibigan nating Macoy loyalists.

      Kasi naman konting research lang naman at malalaman nila ang katotohanan kung mas maganda nga ang ekonomiya nuon, maganda ang palitan ng dolyar at peso (whatever that means), kung mas mapayapa ang may curfew, na kesyo kapareho tayo ng Singapore o papunta na dun.

      Konting research lang sana yan. Pero mas mas gusto ng tao na i-ignore ang mga bagay bagay.

      Frustrating.

    • reader, I’ll be happy to read comments of marcos loyalists and maybe answer some. but if marcos loyalists start abusing fellow commenters and call them unsavory names, nagmumura at naninigaw, at sobrang walang manners, they risk being isolated, at baka ni walang isa ang sasagot sa comments nila.

  8. will be looking forward to read/watch video/blog … all i can remember then during the Marcos Era was the curfew hours, less traffic, better economy, but then i was in high school and living in the province where it’s more peaceful and laid back life… ;D

  9. noong panahon ni marcos, naririnig sa morning news ang salary increase ng mga guro. ngayon, rally muna bago salary increase.

  10. Raissa, can it be video taped, so that we can see it on your blog and on You Tube? I would be VERY interested in what you have to say. I even hope you will share your speech on your blog.

    • “It will be at the UP … from 9 AM to 12 AM.”

      Morning till midnight? (15 hours) OO na – typo lang.

      Kung hindi naman, burn-out si Ginang Raissa.

      That will be a first for CPM to have it in video, and streamed.

  11. I like to remember, as an ordinary citizen not involved in politics, the early years of martial law where discipline was the order of the day. No kotong cops, I was even detained overnight for violation of curfew together with my friends, and the regime had solution to fuel crisis in the aftermath of the 1973 Yomm Kippur War between the Arabs and Israel.

    Those who suffered were rival politicians and activists but for us not involved, life was peaceful and the economy stable.

    • Basic commodities like electricity ,water and etc.. should really be Government owned and controlled especially during a global oil price increases….Marcos was right in sequesterring Lopez owned Meralco. EPIRA a bad LAW for the Filipino people…..

      GREEN REVOLUTION , especilly when Families planted vegetables infront of their dwellings along highways from Manila to the northern most provinces to the north and to the south and every corner in the Philippines and that 15 days YCAP..going home to your home province once in a year to render Civic Activities and sharing your acquired expertise for FREE was good IDEAs of MARCOS…others were all bad memoriies.

    • @kalahari, ‘life was peaceful and the economy stable’, I think, that was only momentary, only on the surface. people were being kept ignorant of what was below the surface, what was agreed behind their backs. people were made to be satisfied of what they got, to be happy and contented of what they got, when marcos and his cronies are getting far more than they should have, and ought to share and pass on bounty like international aid meant for poor people. people did not know what they were missing, did not know what is rightfully theirs. ignorance is bliss. not for long though. people soon wake up and when they started asking questions, they got gagged and sent to jail.

      • FREEDOM of SPEECH and of the PRESS can never be set aside at all times otherwise , democracy will fail… @moonie best siguro if we have that FOI..

        • Life was better in the EARLY years of martial law but when Ninoy was assasinated in the tarmac, all hell broke loose.

          Early on, those living in the provinces enjoyed the protection of the courteous cops – unlike now when you’re afraid of them as if they’re worse than the criminals

        • Tama ka [email protected] …1st years ng martial law, all of us barkadas/teenagers in our hometown were caught and have our longer hairs cut and our parents told us good for us and the community , clean cut teenagers serenading at night time but with limited hours to visit a girl neighbors, otherwise he he… sa prisinto ka … No drugs then,, marijuana and shabu ,,but some especially children of the rich and famous in our place were doing some heroines but we have no evidences only rumurs… Rape in our place never happen at that time… I cant remember when it started to be magulo in our place… Somebody must have recall it… Before NINOY was shot parang nagsimula na @kalahari …pero hindi ko na matandaan…

        • In our place here in Northern Mindanao, it was abnormally normal except the usual PC campaign against the NPAs. We kept singing “Bayan Ko” in karaoke places and the like but nobody called our attention. May be in urban areas like the major cities especially Metro Manila when open struggles against marcos started when Ninoy was assasinated.

          Comparing the government today and during martial law, it’s almost the same especially in corruption except that the lion’s share during marcos time went to the first family and cronies while today, it’s almost evenly divided and some even budgeted. HATING KAPATID IKA NGA.

        • Ninoy’s assasination was the spark that started in earnest the opposition to the corrupt and brutal regime of marcos

    • … then why was our country termed the Sick Man of Asia? …twenty long years of sickness!

      China under Mao was termed the Great Leap Backwards! Now, no more.

      Philippines was top in Asia before the corruptions aggravated…now, we find we are buntot -at the tail end…like a Subic-monkey with a long tail…thanks to our leaderships!

    • … you’r lucky! …at the time…even Angels Fear To Tread here! Sooo ‘peacefool’ they couldn’t believe it!

      hehehe

  12. I would come only if there is a raffle condo prize and make sure I win as LUCKY as Cong Binay winning a condo in Rockwell Makati.

    “When it’s too good to be true it’s too good to be true”

    He he he!

    • hahaha…

      kung magkakaanak ako…if girl:

      gusto ko name nya Veenay
      if boy, Beenoy

      it seems na napa ka swerte ng surname na yan..
      may Dasma na at may Rockwell pa…

      • Ang Balita ng barbero ni baycas maraming entries dun sa raffle. Mahigit daw 100,000 na tickets na may pangalan ang niraffle ng Rockwell.

        Kaya lang isang pangalan lamang nakasulat sa 100,000 tickets
        Abigail Binay swerte talaga.

        • sa ilocano, iBingay daw. (ibigay o ipa-isang tabi sa tagalog, or put in ‘reserve’ sa ingles)

        • you mean, ‘Stakeholder’?

          Kuwentong Kutsero

          parang ‘off the plan’ promise (award) or share (unit) on hold as a condition of … ? kung may kasabihang ‘Subject to approval’, mayruon ding ‘as per agreement’.

          Stamp of Approval for Legitimacy?
          anu ang gov’t agency authorized to check the truthfulness or genuiness of raffle draws? especially involving prices including real estate (prime or high value stakes).

        • Swerte talaga at siguro lilipat sya agad para di na kailangan dumaan pa sa gate ng dasma na bawal dumaan pagsapit ng gabi ang meyor at senador. Nalaman tuloy na meron pala sya bahay sa dasma.

          Ngayon pwede na sya dalawin kahit ano oras at di na magtatanong ang mga tao, bakit sya may unit sa condo na yun….

          Napanalunan sa raffle nga kasi…

    • Sa mga napapanood ko sa tv na may pa-raffle meron taga DTI na nag-supervise ng bolahan para makasiguro na malinis (walang dikit o ipit) ang pakontes.

      Unless nga lahat ng tickets ay nasa pangalan nya. Kasi naman namakyaw ng mga goodies sa lahat ng shops (para ipamigay) kaya marami sya tickets.

  13. can’t wait for your speech!!!!

    please post it here in your blogsite?…..

    perhaps you can give clarity to my husband’s daughter who is now a colleague of my son (pseudo-son???)…..

    cheers, Raissa!

    you are the best!

  14. I think he is loved because of his dreams of a new society as people perceived it to be. I was just entering HS then and I cannot forget a policeman, after apprehending a traffic violator with the driver trying to bribe him said “Hindi na pwede iyan sir. Bagong Lipunan na tayo”. Of course dreams rarely turn out the way it should have.

    Then, as erap puts it “weather weather” lang iyan. And an old adage goes “What are we in power for?” For me and for many others, Cory is the cleanest of all presidents but not the people around her. In that end, corruption still exists and … endorse by omission.

    So, pareho lang silang lahat na magnanakaw. In the case of Marcos, many old folks remembered his dreams or promise. Presidents who follows have been less charismatic.

    There is also one thing. At one time, probably in the early 80s, when I went to Jacinto Steel I overheard some people talking. One, who is a military man said Marcos appointed him as a director of various companies with attractive compensation and benefits but with a firm order to concentrate on his job and not to be corrupt. We can say that corruption was limited to fewer people. An inner circle. After Marcos, corruption is more widespread. Anybody inb politics or in government is likely to be corrupt. I am not saying all but it would be like telling someone that a policeman or politician is clean.

    • aba, wheels are being turned yata, maybe forcibly, in preparation for bong marcos’ candidacy come 2016 election. he is going to run for president.

      in those days, marcos has put in place very effecient publicity machines, he starred in movie that made him out to be ultimate hero, recepient of questionable war medals, ubod ng swerte and so blessed to have found yamashita’s stash of gold that enriched his family thousand fold. people got only to hear the good news, rarely the bad news, the good news repeated over and over.

      true, corruption was mainly kept to close friends and family, a privelege shared, and between them, they have strangle hold of the entire economy and the nation. but people learned, if you cannot kick them, join them.

      • marcos has created so many addendums and minefield of presidential decrees, to be pulled only when he wants, where he wants. until now, we are still being hampered by his presidential decrees that often do not favor ordinary people.

        • TRUE iyan @moonie … We CPMERs must join together against the Presidential Candidacy of Bong Bong Marcos , malakas pa rin sila sa mga electorate at maraming silang PERA. Now if Gloria, Enrile ,Estrada and the fanatics of Marcos in Mindanao re-group , the only way to defeat him is to field the best say Grace Poe, Aquino’s siblings , Ombudsman Morales , Cayetano , Cong. Robredo or any of his cabinets performing above excellence and they have to stay together as a TEAM otherwise , may tulog tayo nyan… Kapag iginuhit ng tadhana pati mahirap buwagin…Danding Cojuangco are still strong in Tarlac, Pampangas Pineda’s more inclined to the Marcoses habang nandyan si father Palilio kay PNOY side , Nueva Ecija always like the Marcoses and Bulacan with Irene Araneta’s attachment sa San Miguel , Bulacan states , only Cebu remains strong agins Marcos … Remember MNLF from Jolo, Sulu, Tawi Tawi aka Misuari will go to Marcos along the way..pag si ROXAS ang candidato natin against Marcos …tapos tayo dyan…

        • Baka pwedeng mag petition ang mga Pinoy sa Comelec na gawing ineligible ang kakandidatong may kwestionableng background.
          Bakit kaya walang batas sa Pilipinas na pumigil sa pagtakbo ni Erap? Ang feeling ko tuloy lagi part of the problem ng bansa ang mga lawmakers natin.

        • No Puede yan!

          Even squatters can vote! [ the law says ‘No residence’ cannot vote; but they can!]

          …the petisyon…change the comelec!

          hahaha

        • …yea…he always was with a notarial seal and a rubber stamp with him just in case you and/or anyone can swear in an affidavit that he was a WW II hero!

          medals here medals there…for that!

      • I wish or hope that the next ‘edsa’ or whatever…people will go out with picks ‘n shovels, axes, bolos, spades, forks, spoons, sharp blades atbpa…no more roses of flowers!

        …time to cut down the culprits when they sit in power again.

  15. My brother in-law, son of a US citizen, who was living in the Philippines at that time told me that one month before the declaration of ML, the US Embassy sent them an advisory to leave the country.

    • I was a young idealist with the government during the late 70’s of the martial law years. earlier I was also with the rallies crying out against the “Marcose-US dictatorship” but we were also discussing during teach-ins” the “Red Book” of MaoTse-Tung ( Mao Zedong), the main reason I left the movement and joined the government. I remember some known activist leaders fleeing to China including Eric Baculinao, Chito Sta. Romana, etc. The media then was government-controlled during the earlier years but media like Olivarez’es and Locsin”s could print their versions of Philippine politics, in later years and after the Martial Law Years. It was not easy separating the truth from the false in media reporting- both of the government and the “rebel media”. But I was in government and I knew that we were helping to improve the community and what we were doing we could not have done if there was no martial law. It’s quite clear to me because I live to this day to see the difference. People focus on the “billions” supposedly “looted” by the Marcoses and the human rights violations committed. I have read how such compare with the records of the post-Martial law years. The latter years are worse yet people do not speak of these that have /are happening when democracy has supposedly been restored. People also overlook the positive aspects of the martial law years which the country enjoys even today- the laws, the infrastructures, the services, the political organizations (barangays), the government institutions. Hopefully, someone will also do some intensive research and reporting on the “positive” accomplishments during of what they call “dark” years which we fail to achieve under this supposed democratic space and conditions. Perhaps, too, a more objective and incisive history will be written for the future generations who must learn and make their own judgements of so many things in the past that remain uncorrected, e.g., Aguinaldo as a national hero vis-a-vis the deaths of Bonifacio and Luna; Malvar whether a bandit or a hero, etc. and so many undeclared heroisms that the nation should know and cherish as part of its legacy..

        • i WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME FRANK AND TRUTHFUL DISCUSSION. WASN’T ASKING FOR SYMPATHY AND I DEFINITELY DIDN’T EXPECT THAT KIND OF REACTION FROM YOU. ANYWAY, THANKS FOR BOTHERING TO READ MY OPINION.

      • I hope you don’t mind, can you give us more bona fides and specifics like what office you worked in, what specific organizations you joined, personalities still alive who know you so we can verify if your claims are authentic.

        How old are you and what school did you go to? Who were your contemporaries?

        • I CAN TALK TO YOU THRU MY FB ACCOUNT OR EMAIL POSTED HERE. WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHICH ORGANIZATION I JOINED. I KNOW BUTCH DALISAY, JERRY BARICAN ( RIP), BOO CHANCO WAS A CLASSMATE IN HIGH SCHOOL. I GRADUATED FROM UP-DILIMAN. THAT WILL PROBABLY DO.

        • @becky

          Would you vote for Bong bong Marcos for president come 2016 if he is a candidate?

          Do you think he’ll match or be much better than his departed father?

          Give us a run down of Bong bong’s leadership qualities to you, and attributes as a person that would make him a good and better president, compared with Mar, Binay, Poe, Duterte for starters.

        • How about the bank code given by Bongbong to Jose Almonte while they were in exile thinking to transfer all their wealth from Swiss bank to other account? Restoring democracy during Aquino time would be difficult since we were devastated by Marcoses. Halos ubusin ang kaban…apply this also in business…kinuha lahat ng puhunan how could you survive? If i do research, there are lots of articles written rationalizing all their wrongs. Good thing i trust my parents.

        • Enforced disappearances
          Hundreds of cases of enforced disappearance
          remained unresolved. According to figures released in
          August by Families of Victims of Involuntary
          Disappearance, the average number of enforced
          disappearances per year had barely changed since
          the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. There
          were 875 documented cases during his 21-year rule,
          compared with 945 in the 25 years since.
          In July, the Supreme Court ordered the armed
          forces to produce Jonas Burgos, an activist abducted
          from a Manila shopping mall in 2007 in a car
          previously impounded by the military. In its report to
          the Court, the Commission on Human Rights
          recommended that criminal charges be filed
          against a major who had been implicated by a
          witness. In June, Burgos’ mother filed a criminal
          Amnesty International Report 2012

        • Then you should check the veracity of the stats that are on the Internet. You can’t just say it’s on the Internet and leave it at that. What’s the source stated by the online mention.

        • Raissa,

          She is Rebecca Torres, indeed a classmate of Boo in UP high. She worked as a regional director of HLURB and was based in Cagayan Valley. Probably retired by now.

          Becky, I did that checking just to screen out the numerous neo-Marcos loyalists posting here who obviously did not experience the Marcos years and just picked up the propaganda provided by pro-Bongbong elements.

          In your case, you did live in that era, so the question now is how in the world did you come up with an assessment like that? Do you have any sense of proportion or scale and did you consider the malice or absence of it in the succeeding administrations?

          So who exactly are you pointing fingers at in this era?