Category: marcos

postmortem: horrid media owe marcos kids a public apology

i thought that imee and bongbong marcos (with wife lisa araneta) showed a lot of class by showing up at cory’s wake, probably at the behest of their mother, who herself had the delicadeza to stayaway.

though it was clearly an ordeal for the marcos siblings (nakatutok sa kanila ang mga camera every step of the way) they nevertheless went through the paces with as much poise as they could muster.   nice of the aquino grandsons to meet them, take them to cory, and sit with them in an an empty front pew.   and yes, what a relief when ballsy finally came out to greet them, shake hands, beso-beso, small talk.   a show of good manners and right conduct all around.   cory would have approved.

when ballsy had exited frame, imee and bongbong left the pew tagged “family” and moved to another, some pews behind.    they must have thought the media cameras would finally leave them be, but no, the media know nothing of good manners and right conduct!

the media behaved absolutely horrendously, gathering around, thrusting microphones and tape recorders at the sibs, asking what they said to ballsy and what ballsysaid to them — an assault that no other guests had been subjected to, and which succeeded only in driving the marcoses away.   was that the point?   how bastos.

my sympathies to imee and bongbong, who did not deserve to be embarrassed so.   cory would have been horrified.

those media people and their bosses — attention, ANC! — owe the marcos kids a public apology.

september 22

manolo quezon is right. it’s good to see that we’ve stopped thinking of september 21 as martial law day. it’s good to see rin that the debate has moved on.

the question now is: so which day did marcos’ military rule begin — september 22, the day he signed proclamation 1081? or september 23, the day we woke up to martial law?

going by the numbers and how martial law turned out, no question about it, september 22 is the day to mark.

in numerology 22 is the most powerful of all numbers, the master builder, combines vision with action. . .

It is unlimited, yet disciplined. Itsees the archetype, and brings it down to earth in some material form. It has big ideas, great plans, idealism, leadership, and enormous self-confidence. If not practical, the 22s waste their potential . . . can easily shrink from its own ambition, causing difficult interior pressures . . . It must work toward the realization of goals that are larger than personal ambition.”

in astrology 22 is associated with the planet pluto — yeah i know, it’s been demoted to dwarf — in turn associated with revolutionary change, upheaval, transformation — which is what martial rule was all about in the mind of marcos, except that personal ambition was larger than national goals, and it ended as suddenly as it began, which is so 22.

take note.  the military rebellion that triggered off the edsa event that ousted marcos commenced also on a 22. but lacking vision, the military action was overtaken by people power the very next day, and that’s another number, another story altogether.