Tag: ferdinand marcos

Anti-Marcos movements highlight a lack of national vision for the Philippines

February 6, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

We hear a lot about clamours to block the candidacy of vice presidential candidate Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr coming from the alleged ‘victims’ of the rule of his father, the late former President Ferdinand E Marcos. The most recent is one reportedly organised by “a coalition of martial law victims” calling their movement the ‘Campaign…

Politics, Society

Filipinos need to rise and defeat the villains of Philippine society

January 23, 2016 Ilda 31 Comments

It has been said that every search for a hero must begin with something that every hero requires — a villain. In the Philippines, the search for a hero has been very hard. That’s because identifying the villain or villains who keep Filipinos chained to their wretched existence is harder. I believe that if Filipinos…

Politics, Society

We Should ‘Move On’ From The Supposed ‘Legacy’ Of The Aquino Family

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 Grimwald 20 Comments

The Aquino family and, by extension, the LP have always been adamant about how the Aquinos changed the country for the better. However, once one looks past all the propaganda and media support, one will be forced to question the veracity of their claims. Truth be told, over the years, we are spoonfed with silly…

Culture, Government, Media, Religion, Society

Let’s Change what #NeverAgain Means

October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 ChinoF 70 Comments

Seems that #NeverAgain is being spread as a much-overused and tired propaganda buzzword. It’s used to make people believe martial law will be restored once Bongbong Marcos gets elected into a higher position. Really, GRP Webmaster Benign0 is right: it will never come back even if Marcos comes to power. It’s actually being used for…

Culture, Politics

Filipinos’ rotten politics mirror their inability to look FORWARD

October 20, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

Many Filipinos are too caught up with what the Philippines should “never” be or “never” suffer again. It’s become a popular political fashion statement. Trouble is, too few Filipinos could hardly imagine much more think about what their country could be. And this is why the Philippines does not move forward — because Filipinos are…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Why the #NeverAgain slogan reflects Filipinos’ total failure of imagination

October 19, 2015October 19, 2015 benign0 60 Comments

The onus on building a clear vision of what lies ahead for the Philippines during the euphoric months following the 1986 “People Power” EDSA “revolution” was on the victors. What did we get instead? Nothing more than a vacuous excuse of a roadmap to prosperity. The Yellow emotionalist rhetoric that dominated the national political “debate”…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Revising the revisionist Philippine history as told by the ‘victors’

October 18, 2015 Add 80 Comments

“History is written by the victors.” ― Walter Benjamin The quote is commonly misattributed to Winston Churchill. Maybe it wasn’t even a quote by Benjamin, but by a loser smoking a Marlboro, who knows? Who cares? In the Philippines, where poverty rules, history has hardly a room. There are victims, rather than victors. There are…

Culture, Politics, Society

In just 6 years, Noynoy Aquino’s record of failure is now worse than all of the Marcos years

October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 Ilda 488 Comments

Filipinos who can’t stop talking about the “horrors” of the Martial Law years under the late former President Ferdinand Marcos are starting to come across as hopeless and desperate for attention. While the atrocities against the victims should be condemned, their cases were already brought to court and won compensation. It is now time to…

Crime, Development, Government, Society