The declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972 and lifted in January 1981 by the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos in our country, is in my honest opinion was truly justified. During that period, Communism, the godless ideology which simply employ deliberate use of force and violence to wrest and seize power and to command obedience upon a group of individuals or citizens and the state therein control, supervise and own private properties and coerce persons to serve the state with the slogan all for the state, was competing with democracies led by America for world supremacy. Since our nation is a democracy, it allied itself with the latter. Marcos, a bemedalled and decorated World War II soldier and hero, a bar topnacher at that was resolute and staunch defender of democracy, a fine, noble and gifted leader of our nation seemed and appeared amazingly to be the deliverer of the great number of Filipinos from the clutches of communism and its possible takeover of our country that time and the Filipino great man of vision propelled the political, economic and socio-cultural advancement and progress of the nation in the late 70’s to the early 80’s. The then First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos, so sweet, docile and beautiful that she was and still at present was very sympathetic to every Filipino actively involved herself in socio-economic projects and built infrastructures, became Minister of Human Settlements and an inspiring emissary of the government abroad to advance political, economic and socio-cultural alliances with nations worldwide and finally instrumental in foreign negotiations that led among others to peace agreements and viable solutions with the Muslim rebels in war-torn Southern Philippines (Mindanao and Sulu) personally consulting Libyan leader Gaddafy and other foreign leaders and famous dignitaries and remarkably her significant contributions she shared for the welfare and betterment of all Filipinos then that time and the present generation today to be grateful to her will be remembered in Philippine history despite and no matter how her detractors consider her to be.
The accusations and allegations of those some cruel and dirty people specially the ruthless detractors, enemies and critics of the Marcoses of allegedly ill-gotten wealth or cleptocracy is just very unkind and unjust! The people ought and must know and be revealed to them that the late President in 1969 was already Asia’s richest man without any trace, suspicion or doubt that he unjustly enriched himself at the expense of getting money or resources from the state, government nor took them from any private Filipino citizen which is indeed true and factual. The former First Lady’s jewelries now being about to be auctioned by the Presidential Commission on Good Government or PCGG justly belong to Mrs. Marcos and must be returned to her for these jewelries were legally and lawfully acquired from her honestly earned and acquired wealth with her husband and family considering that they ruled the Philippines for more than twenty years knowing fully well that the late president was already the richest among Asian leaders in 1969 until the time that he was unjustly forced to leave or vacate his office by the American backed-up EDSA uprising on February 25, 1986 wherein the first family were exiled to Honolulu, Hawaii. According to senseless, unprincipled, unscrupulous, brutish and cruel critics and personal enemies of the Marcoses they considered during those times that the former first lady was pompous, extravagant and lavish. These allegations and accusations are baseless, unfounded and full of bias because every Filipino was happy that time and during the late 70’s and 80’s our country and the Filipino people under Marcos was truly progressive, prosperous and blissful contrary to what they pictured and observed on the nation. We flourished and the less fortunate Filipino brothers and sisters were the priorities of the government giving them more preferential attention, love, care and did justice for them upon their moral, material, physical and economic welfare, wholesome development and well being.
Although, most critics and the Marcoses’ personal enemies consider Marcos a dictator, that he plundered the nation, a violator of human rights these are but sarcastic, ridiculous, grossly unfounded without legal and factual bases intended to destroy his image, character and dignity as a former president of our country. He must be defended and vindicated now because in the Ten True Decalogue of the Brains of the Philippine Revolution and Sublime Paralytic, Apolinario Mabini adhered to the idea that the enemy of the state or republic must be killed, destroyed and annihilated when it endangers the security, harms the people as well as their well being and their very existence, survival and preservation of the people and the republic is at stake aside from the provisions of the Revised Penal Code defining crimes like rebellion, inciting to sedition and its corresponding penalties or punishments and many other laws of the state that lawless elements infracted and committed that time. I strongly submit, that it is not important whether Marcos was a dictator or not because what matters most is that there was no Filipino leader other than Marcos who could govern the Philippines better than he during that violent and chaotic period and possible communistic takeover and communist threat in this part of the world particularly upon our country except the late strong man Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. As in the very words of his brilliant eldest daughter, Congresswoman Imee Marcos said lately: “Dapat lang na ang tatay ko bilang naging isang sundalo noong Ikalawang Digmaan Pandaigdig at bilang na rin na naging Pangulo, nararapat lang na mailibing sa Libingan ng mga Bayani”. I second the motion and do have the same position because it will be history to judge the late great Filipino president and not these notorious, vicious and dubious personalities, unprincipled and unscrupulous critics and envious, jealous enemies and people to judge him but history. This man who asserted that: “For every tear, a victory”, “For honor is more valuable than life itself and what he said in one of his eloquent and fiery speeches”, “I come in the legacy of Dr. Jose Rizal…” the greatest national hero, Pride of the Malayan Race said: “I die without seeing the dawn brightens over my native land, those who have it to see, welcome it, and forget not those who have fallen during the night”. This is relevant on the status quo of our country today tracing back in the late 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s many Filipinos have given up their lives and died just so our country and people would be freed from poverty, hunger, doing justice for the poor and the oppressed but there are those who continue to be apathetic, greedy and abusive to advance their selfish ends and personal interests and motives at the expense of the nation and the Filipino people. Its high time to unite and reckon with what Marcos’ ideas and thoughts and did to our country and people and what Rizal said so that everybody must see the dawn of progress, prosperity and peace. I strongly submit again, that this man will go down in the annals of human history as a just, brilliant, illustrious, exemplary president, politician, a fine genius, soldier, lawyer and one of the greatest Asian leaders who ever lived and one and at par with the world’s finest and greatest men ever lived and ever produced by humankind who championed freedom and democracy to the extent of declaring martial law in our country just to defend it, who had a noble spirit and soul, exceptional brilliant mind, a kind heart and dedicated, sincere selfless efforts geared toward the betterment, welfare and progress of the Filipinos, who are a great people of a great nation according to the late President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos when he said in 1965 that made him “man of the year”: “This nation can be great again!”
Posted on Oct 19, 2005, 8:15 PM from IP address 71.142.6.40
