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BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
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Monday, June 5, 2017
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IT’S REALLY getting to be boring to the point of irritation watching on the six o’clock news these bleeding hearts gullible idiots whine and complain about President Rodrigo Duterte’s placing the entire island of Mindanao under martial law.
Are these idiots aware of the fact that right now there’s s a war in Marawi City and that people are dying every day?
Perhaps in their minds the ISIS-wannabe Maute group are just out for a Friday stroll and from out of the blue started killing residents and burning buildings without malice of course as the Maute group are not terrorists but really lovely people.
And it is really the fault of President Rodrigo Duterte when the military started shooting the “poor and helpless” ISIS-wannabe Maute group using helicopter gunships because really, they’re lovely people that the “yellow ribbon devotees” would love to bring home for a cup of tea with mother.
I say President Rodrigo Duterte is missing something here; there are experts who have the solution to this crisis in Marawi City i.e. Leah Navarro, Jim Paredes, Etta Rosales, and Risa Hontiveros; the President should immediately appoint them as chief negotiators and send them to Marawi City.
While we’re at it, perhaps President Duterte should also send Vice President Leni Robredo to cook lugaw for the ISIS-wannabe Maute group as these guys must be hungry from all that killing of helpless civilians and we certainly can’t have malnourished terrorists.
And then we have the gullible trendy latte- and frappuccino-infused students from Ateneo, UP and St. Scholastica who have been protesting against their imagined abuses of martial law but not against the actual atrocities of terrorism happening now in Marawi City.
It makes one wonder why they are up in arms against the so-called abuses and evils of martial law when nothing of that sort has happened or is happening in Mindanao but are totally cool about the actual atrocities of terrorism happening now in Mindanao.
There is only one simple explanation why this sort of mentality I’d like to call “martial law bogeyman syndrome” is prevalent among the millennials and the usual “yellow ribbon devotees” and this line by Winston Churchill best illustrates it: “History is written by the victors.”
“One of the most unfortunate and widely-accepted ideas about historical thinking is that ‘history is written by the victors.’ This talking point asserts that the truth of the past is not shaped by reasoned interpretive historical scholarship or a factual understanding of the past, but by the might of political and cultural leaders on the ‘winning’ side of history who have the power to shape historical narratives through school textbooks, public iconography, movies, and a range of other mediums.
“To be sure, these mediums are powerful venues for establishing political ideologies and shaping personal assumptions about the way the world works. And it’s definitely true that governmental or ‘official’ entities can and do exploit this power to achieve their own ends.”
From the book Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century, by historian John Bodnar, applying it to post-EDSA Philippines it fits perfectly why we have this “martial law bogeyman syndrome.”
The Aquinos and their cult of “yellow ribbon devotees” ruled the Philippines for 30 years that is until this probensyano mayor from Davao against all odds shattered the rule of the oligarchs and the cult of the “yellow ribbon devotees.”
So now you see why they hate Duterte and anything associated with him, particularly his declaration of martial law to save Mindanao from becoming another ISIS caliphate.
This blind faith to the cult of “yellow ribbon devotees” destroys rationale thinking and the ability to differentiate between the 1937 Constitution provision on martial law and the current 1987 Constitution provision on the same.
Incidentally, when then President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law he did it based on the powers granted to the President of the Philippines under the 1937 Constitution, in short what he did was perfectly legal.
Fast forward to May 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte placed the entire island of Mindanao as a response to the invasion of the ISIS-wannabe Maute group.
According to Article VII, Section 18 of the 1987 Constitution: “The President shall be the Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces of the Philippines and whenever it becomes necessary, he may call out such armed forces to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion or rebellion. In case of invasion or rebellion, when the public safety requires it, he may, for a period not exceeding sixty days, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus or place the Philippines or any part thereof under martial law.”
Martial law is a legal instrument provided for in the Constitution which authorizes the President whoever he maybe to use it to protect the republic and the constitution which he has sworn to do so.
If it is evil as what his detractors say then why did Cory Aquino’s people included it in the 1987 Constitution?
Let me put it this way for the “yellow ribbon devotees”: martial law is evil if any president declares it except if you are an Aquino. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
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