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Directive to give Marcos a hero’s burial from the defense secretary to the military chief

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Thanks for this @lalarimando

UPDATE: I just received word

The Coalition Against the Marcos Burial in Libingan ng mga Bayani will hold a press conference on Tuesday, August 9, 9 a.m. at the Kamuning Bakery Café, 43 Judge Jimenez cor K-1st St., QC.

Panelists will be:

Senator Francisco Pangilinan
Rep. Edcel Lagman
Rep. Teddy Baguilat
Susan Quimpo, Bantayog ng mga Bayani
Susan Villanueva, SAMASA
Atty. Rex Fernandez, human rights lawyer

Moderator: Vincent Lazatin, Duyan ng Magiting Coalition

Comments

  1. What comes out from the mouth comes from the heart, for out of the heart come evil thoughts, false witness and slander.

    Another telegraphed punches of DU30 after going around militart camps – constitutional crisis? Martial law?

    It gives subliminal message to the people that may result to fear from among the constituents.

  2. Consider the plunderer’s headstone… in popular Ilonggo humor, D.O M. is read as Dumduma Otang Mo ( Remember Your Debt )

  3. “Heed Duterte’s call: Protest hero’s burial for Marcos”

    “I urge you to continue placing memorial stones, now and forever, in, around, and on Ferdinand Marcos’ grave – to ensure that the Marcoses will never steal the truth, our history, and the unresolved injustices they forced upon all Filipinos

    “Go ahead,” President Duterte says, “demonstrate against the burial of Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.”

    “Despite indisputable history of tens of thousands of Filipinos victimized during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, and despite his generation-long denial of our democracy and its essential rights, and despite the truth that nobody but Marcos loyalists give a shit that the dictator’s corpse is rotting unburied – despite all that, our new strongman president, Rodrigo Duterte, has called for the despot’s burial next month in our nation’s Cemetery of Heroes.

    “Change is coming, supporters proudly crow, but they seem to care little that what remains unchanging is our culture of impunity – which Mr. Duterte brashly continues with his dynasty, extrajudicial killings, threats to dissolve democracy’s checks and balances, shameless relations with plunderers and the family of a despot, and now this: the burial of a dictator in the best spot within the most hallowed resting place in our country.

    “We Filipinos have grown used to not having a voice, a say, or any real involvement in the direction of our country. Crooked politicians get caught and prosecuted, yet all they must do is wait for the political tide to turn to snag themselves a pardon, or an acquittal by allies, or a rehabilitation of their legacy funded by the very money they stole. You and I know this is a fact: the powerful plunder, massacre, rape children, cheat in elections, and return happily a few years later.

    “How can this burial of a dictator “heal” a country if justice has never been served? How can we “move on” to a future that presents a real threat of the return of the Marcoses – who used extravagant development projects for both thievery and pomp, who used stolen billions to fund disinformation and the rewriting of history, and who have always acted and still act with the impunity that this burial perpetuate?

    “Go ahead and protest,” President Duterte says. We easily read the dismissiveness in his statement: Go ahead and protest, because your protest will never matter – I will give Marcos his hero’s burial; suspects will continue being killed without trial; I’ll do whatever I want with China, my kids will wield power, and I will coddle and empower my friends. Change is coming? Doesn’t all that sound like the same-old same-old Philippines?

    “Go ahead and protest,” So let us heed now our president’s call and protest peacefully

    “Some weeks ago, through #bawatbato, we, everyday Filipinos, gathered to occupy the grave of Ferdinand Marcos with stones memorializing his victims – ensuring that his body will be laid upon the memory of those crimes. -x-x-x

    Rappler.com http://bit.ly/2aBYNsK

    • may I suggest, not just a stone but individual carrying basket full of stones heap on the grave hanggang sa mabaon ang grave ng impostor, bogged down by the sheer weight of tons of stones. so many are agrabyado, tutol sa paglibing. and for those who find it hard to get stones, may I suggest they bring garbage, basura, to be heaped on the impostor’s grave? the more the merrier. and someone to monitor the heap getting bigger and higher, the pic posted in cyberspace. bilang handog.

      imelda is desecrating the memorial cemetery, it is only proper she receives feedback in kind, unsightly and ugly, but feedback nevertheless.

      I bet, those that inhabit sa libingan will be “kilig” with laughter. some of them prob’ly victims of martial law too, resting in peace and laughing in silent. there is justice after all, coming in all shapes and sizes, and better late than never.

      • while alive, makoy treated people like dirt and now in death, people will treat him like dirt too, justice given as seen fit.

  5. LMB is for former respected president of the country but marcos was an ousted president. This is makes a big difference diba?

    Only in the Philippines nga naman .. an ousted president magically became a hero.
    i can just imagine our country’s image in the international community

  6. the right moment shall dawn upon this proud family.
    imo, hindi matutuloy ang lnmb zarzuela na iyan.
    at kung iyan ay piliting ituloy, matatapos na siguro ang pananalaula ng pamilyang iyan sa mga pilipino.

  10. I suspect the insistence by the Marcos family and current administration to bury the dictator at the LnB is more for its symbolic value than for giving the toppled president his due.

    For the Marcoses, burying Marcos at the LnB will signify that they were not vanquished by the Filipinos and can still inflict their will on the people.

    For the current administration, burying Marcos signifies a forgetting of history which they seem to be trying to repeat.

    But let the people repeat history for them. And maybe this time without the niceties.

    • burying makoy sa libingan is how the marcoses cheapens the memorial cemetery. it’s not because the edjet is a hero. he’s imelda’s appendix, and no use to anyone.

      • Victims/relatives of martial law atrocities won’t just sit down for long as the fake hero and big-time plunderer lie in peace in a guarded mausoleum/eternal flame. In due time and under the protection of darkness, an RPG will zoom from nowhere and zeroed in on the sleeping wax until the marcos family move him to where he belongs – Sarrat, Ilocos Norte.

        • For all we know, the corpse of the dictator has already been buried in his hometown and it will just be his wax figure that will be buried at the LnB.

          The Marcoses are just being consistent in deceiving people to the end.

        • kaya, I have no respect for this makoy impostor to be buried in libingan. next time, I drop by libingan, I bring a bottle of piss and pour it over makoy’s grave and maybe, I’ll come dressed as dovie beams in drag, hic.

  11. Dear Raissa, Alan and CPMers.

    How about an “apology” to those honorable men
    whose honorable journies have ended, and they
    have earned their rightful place in the Libingan ng
    Mga Bayani. We certainly have to warn them about.
    the intrusion.

    A sign that says:

    There lies the leader of an ambitious clan
    Which still dominates two generations of crime,
    Looting, torture, corruption spread upon the land,
    A historical ravage, a calculated onslaught of all time.

    FEM does not belong in this sacred space
    Where you, our honorable heroes have all gone.
    FEM has no common bond with you — not a trace.
    It seems filthy rich folks can buy anything — and they won.

    Make way for a traitor to rest amongst you,
    And should there be another time for forgiving
    Lift not your tired heads to look around you
    He’s not worth a square inch of dirt you all fought saving.

  12. It just occurred to me that, according to Amnesty International, there were around 3,240 deaths during Martial Law. In Dutertes 2 months as President, Senator Panfilo Lacson has claimed that there are already 600 deaths because of the campaign against illegal drugs. One can argue that they are different because the current extra judicial killings are due to campaign against criminals. But the point is, both these numbers are state sponsored killings. And isn’t it that the excuse of Marcos back then was that extra judicial killings were directed towards criminals? At the rate things are going, Duterte will surpass the numbers of Marcos.

  13. Very selective promise keeping. Will bury Macoy in LnmB because he “promised the Ilocanos,” but he promised the whole country a con-con & is now quietly accepting con-ass. Which is the bigger deal?

    • sorry po, I’m not into deals. but here’s waht I think: burying marcos in libingan does not make him a hero, only an impostor. a blight on the pristine. a disease.

      repeat: burying marcos in libigan does not make him a hero. he’s an impostor to me.

      • I’m unclear about exactly what “heroic” acts are forwarded to recommend him for a hero’s burial. I’m even more unclear about what Duterte is really up to…is this just an additional layer of strife & crisis of the sort all populist demagogues depend on to brace up their power…or is there more to it than that?

        • You hit it right in the head ……there’s more to it than that. May it have something to do with Bongbong’s contribution to PD30’s campaign kitty?