Tag: ninoy aquino

Is the Ninoy Aquino assassination of 1983 still a significant part of our history?

August 18, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

I was one of those who joined every major protest action against the Marcos dictatorship at that time. My view, in large part, was shaped by my professors who were mostly anti-Marcos. They controlled the narrative then and I had not developed my critical thinking skillset at that point. I couldn’t see the inconsistencies in…

History

Ninoy Aquino deserves to have a tent set up in his face

April 2, 2022 benign0 30 Comments

C’mon. You gotta admit, that was funny. This was probably the most ideal spot to set up this tent. Rapplerette Lian Buan “reports”, “The main stage of the Tarlac City Plazuela for the Uniteam event fronts the monument of the late Senator Ninoy Aquino, but he has been covered by a tent so that he…

History

Mandatory military service will cure the Philippines’ sissy culture

January 20, 2022 benign0 34 Comments

In stating a categorical position on the matter of the reinstatement of mandatory military service in the Philippines, administration vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte effectively made the character of contemporary Philippine society an election issue. It pits the culture espoused by the Opposition led by Yellowtard presidential candidate Leni Robredo — pink, effeminate, and supposedly…

Society

Memo to Robredo “pinklawans” and broader Yellowtard and commie camps: Marcos-vs-Aquino narrative has gotten OLD

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 10 Comments

Do you actually believe Inquirer columnist and former Undersecretary Manuel L. Quezon III (MLQ3) when he posits that the collective political psyche of the Filipino revolves around what he refers to as the Marcos-Aquino blood feud? In his Inquirer piece today “Marcos Jr. biding his time”, MLQ3 goes even further to assert that “it was…

Politics

#NinoyIsNOTaHero trends as Commission on Audit (COA) “flagging” campaign mounted by Opposition FAILS

August 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 8 Comments

The hashtag #NinoyIsNOTaHero trended yesterday on the 38th anniversary of his death at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. It is obvious that the Filipino people have had enough of that narrative. They have repudiated the proponents of such in 2016 with the loss of Mar Roxas to Rodrigo Duterte and again in 2019…

Politics

Nobody could be bothered to solve Ninoy Aquino’s murder — not even the last two Aquino presidents, his wife and son

August 21, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

National artist F. Sionil Jose’s PhilSTAR piece today, “Remembering Ninoy”, best sums up Ninoy Aquino who, on this day in 1983, was assassinated. Jose recalls, “Immediately after EDSA I, Lt. Victor Corpuz saw me; he confirmed that Ninoy was really involved with the New People’s Army.” And so, to this very day we don’t know…

History

The LIES surrounding Ninoy’s 1983 death and the Yellowtard oligarchs’ pillaging of the Philippine economy

August 15, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

The Opposition continues to use the late former President Ferdinand Marcos as a scapegoat for the state of the Philippine economy. They refuse to acknowledge the validity of Marcos’s economic strategy from the beginning of his first term which was to focus on rebuilding infrastructure destroyed during World War II. After the declaration of martial…

Business, Economy

Would Ninoy Aquino have shared power with Joma Sison had they succeeded at toppling the Marcos administration?

August 4, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Endings. The national artist for literature asks history’s unasked questions of what if’s in his piece “Conclusive endings When does a writer end a story or a novel?”. F. Sionil Jose writes of the importance of an author knowing when to stop in order for his story to not lose “its power to make the…

History