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To remember the most famous celebrant this September – Ferdinand Edralin “William Saunders”* & “Fred”** Marcos – and his declaration of Martial Law, I asked my hubby Alan to whip up some recipes since he’s a wizard in the kitchen.

Alan obliged and came up with five dishes.

I said “more”. And he came up with another one.

Here they are:

Famous recipes from Martial Law

Hot Manila – by Alan Robles

Recently, a Filipino cooking page on Facebook started spouting pro-Marcos gibberish and linked to the “top 10 establishments built under the Marcos regime.”

You’d think that by “establishments” a cooking page would mean “resto,” or “auberge” or even “carinderia,”, but no it turns out it means “buildings.” And the list isn’t even complete–it doesn’t mention the millions in sleazy kickbacks and commissions the Marcoses got for each project.

Anyway, what the FB page did is just plain WRONG. It’s wrong because if you’re a Filipino food recipe page, you shouldn’t talk about Martial Law’s construction projects: you should give examples of famous recipes from the dictatorship. Don’t know any of those recipes? Well, lucky for you, those who experienced Martial Law do. Here are a few.
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Pinekeng Ambush ala Enrile

(one of Ferdinand Marcos’ personal favorites)

Ingredients:
one Enrile
one car (driver optional)
goons
automatic weapon
Procedure:
1. Take the car. Separate it from Enrile until your Enrile is very far from the car.
2. Have car drive down the road.
3. Take the automatic weapon and shoot the car 500 times, peppering it well.
4. Serve hot.
5. Declare martial law.

To read the rest, please click on this link.

[NOTE: *William Saunders was the nom de guerre Marcos used for his secret Swiss bank accounts. **Fred was the name Marcos told actress Dovie Beams to call him by.]

Comments

  1. On the 43rd anniversary of Marcos’ Martial Law

    By the numbers: What happened during martial law

    By Rosette Adel (philstar.com) | Updated September 23, 2015 – 6:12pm
    Forty-three years ago, President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines.

    MANILA, Philippines —The Philippines commemorates the 43rd anniversary of former President Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of martial law on Sept. 23, 1972.

    During the full implementation of martial law under the Marcos regime, several institutions and media outlets were closed down, officials and citizens were arrested and there activists were killed.

    Martial law officially ended Jan. 13, 1981 while Marcos remained in office until the historic EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986.

    Here’s a look back, by the numbers, at the day when Marcos proclaimed martial law 43 years ago based on the infographic from the Official Gazette.
    7: Public utilities were closed including the Manila Electric Company, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority, Philippine National Railway, Philippine Airlines, Air Manila, and Filipinas Orient Airways.
    292: Radio stations were closed all over the country
    66: Community newspapers were closed
    11: English weekly magazines were closed
    7: Major English dailies were closed
    7: Television stations were closed
    4: Chinese dailies were closed
    3: Filipino dailies were closed
    1: English-Filipino daily was closed
    1: Spanish daily was closed

    But…
    3: Media outlets were exempt from martial law – newspaper Daily Express; television station TV Channel 9 and radio station Kanlaon Broadcasting System.
    Around 60,000: estimated personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines were alerted.
    25,000: of which were from the Philippine Constabulary
    17,600: Estimated strength of the Philippine Army
    9,000: Estimated strength of the Philippine Air Force
    8,000: Estimated strength of the Philippine Navy
    4: Senators were arrested which include Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., Jose “Pepe” Diokno, Ramon Mitra Jr. and Francisco “Soc” Rodrigo.
    Approximately 8,000: Individuals were also arrested. Among these are the 1971 Constitutional Convention delegates, journalists, students, labor leaders and a few members of the elite families.
    12: Iglesia Ni Cristo security guards were killed.

    All of these numbers happened in one day according to reports.

    Source; http://www.philstar.com/news-feature/2015/09/23/1503127/numbers-what-happened-during-martial-law

  3. “Amnesty International has estimated that during Martial Law, 70,000 people were imprisoned, 34,000 were tortured, and 3,240 were killed. We are still feeling the effects of large-scale corruption and human rights violations to this day”

    http://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/opinion/a-marcos-brand-of-amnesia/ar-AAe8mru?li=AAb280R&ocid=SK2CDHP

    and yet bongbong and many of the dictator’s loyalists proclaim: “The new Marcos supporters, according to Bongbong Marcos, want to bring back the time of his father when everything was peaceful and in order. He says that even the older people tell him, “Buti pa noong panahon ni Marcos, maginhawa ang buhay.”

    ang larawan sa aking tigpaw, mauulit ang trahedya noong dekada 70 at 80 pag naluklok si bbm na panggulo!

    • binabasa ko ang mga lumang thread tungkol ke Marcos…grabe ang dami pa din loyalist commenters.
      pano ba yan?

      tapos mas powerful pa ata tong si Bongbong sa NP kesa ke Villar.

  5. RECIPE ( 10,000 days war) Vietnam war…

    Original chef is French, nakisawsaw lang ang US.. hmmn to many chefs will spoil the soup,, LBJ does”nt want to be tag as the president to lose a war.. escalate escalate.( more salt and pepper)..napadamay na ang assistant cook na si Makoy, send Philcags/entertaiments.. Ho chi min trail.. then becomes so hot in the kitchen.. the fall of vietnam followed by the DOMINOE theory. Commnunist will advance thru out Asia..then it’s history Marcos want to be the Commander in CHEF for ever,, ika nga sa Batangas ay .. Tuloy ang Bangi. I wish our youth will learn more about the 30 yrs war( Vietnam) that resulted the Martial Law in the Philippines, Napasarap si Marcos sa resulta ng Recipe.

    • “tuloy ang bangi”
      oo nga.
      ala, baken ga?
      matuling na ay nakasaing pa sa baga.
      ay alisi at mapang-os na kahit may kapaitan…
      dahil sa pait ay nagka-EDSA.
      pero ang mga minions ay naririyan pa sa paligid.
      patuloy na nagbabangi. nagpapaalab.
      kailangan diyan ay ilublob sa tubig-alat nang tuluyang masugpo at maging tugalme.

  7. kasuklam na suklam na putahe.

    Ferdie’s Lengua Estofado
    (mga dila ng kalayaan: Freedom of the Press; Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Assembly.)

    Para mailuto ang Ferdie’s Lengua Estofado, kinailangan ng kataas-taasang kasabwa’t kusinero. Bininyagang ’12 apostles’ (military, civilian officers), mas kilalaang “Rolex 12” o “Omega 12.”*

    Ayon sa ‘Oplan Sagittarius’, all media mouthpieces(TV, Radio, and Print) were to be seized or confiscated, only Marcos friendlies were allowed to cook & operate as propagandists.
    Those which belonged to the perceived enemies of the Marcos regime and its cronies were sequestered and awarded to Marcos’ other cronies.

    Propagandists’ Mantra
    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945), Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life.

    Mission Orders
    Ferdie’s Cooking Instructions & Directions for his specialty, Lengua Estofado.
    – To erase truth & justice, wash tongues by curtailing press freedom and other civil liberties
    – To soften meat population, abolish Congress, another Constitution
    – Add spices of fear, intimidatin, abduction to controll media establishments, and
    – To soften the meat population, order the arrest of opposition leaders and militant activists, including his staunchest critics Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno.

    Exclusive Ingredients
    ONLY 3 OX newspaper tongues (Mouthpieces owned by Marcos allies)
    1. Tongue of Bulletin Today, formerly Manila Bulletin
    2. Yiempo of Daily Express
    3. Gatil ng Times Journal

    ONLY 5 TV channel tongues were allowed to operate
    1. The Government owned channel 4
    2. The crony owned channels BBC-2
    3. RPN-9
    4. IBC-13
    5. GMA-7 retained some independence, and only if they cooperated with the regime.
    (The TV and Movie Board of Censors had generals and military personnel manning the helm.)

    The declaration of martial law was received with fear, since Plaza Miranda was bombed with grenades. Crime rates decreased significantly after a curfew was implemented. NO Habeas Corpus, all political dissenters, truth tellers, journos were detained, incarcerated indefinitely. Others never to be seen.

    Ferdie’s Lengua Estofado served with Martial Law for nine years. If the CROPPED tongues were still NOT effective and raw – reheat, reinstill more fear, force more disappearances, stop student & labor union marches & protests by abducting its leaders. Waiters (soldiers, operatives) are court martialled for left overs.

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