TODAY is National Heroes Day so it’s just fitting that we debunk the myth created by media that Ninoy Aquino is a hero.
For starters, as a senator of the Republic his legislative performance was almost zero. All the time he spent in the Senate he was not able to pass a single bill into law. All he did was to make speech after speech proclaiming President Ferdinand Marcos as evil and projecting himself as the “knight in shining armor” out to slay the “dragon”, which of course was Marcos.
Now take note here that the “dragon” mentioned has no reference to that dead “dragon” that used to be lording over the drug trade in what was once referred to by President Rodrigo Duterte as the most “shabu-lized.” Fortunately for the natives of “I Am Iloilo City” that has come to pass or has it.
So following the footsteps of the father, his nincompoop son and namesake Noynoy Aquino who spent 12 years in Congress, nine years as a congressman and three years as a senator also did not pass a single bill. It is public knowledge that Noynoy Aquino spent his time in Congress either sleeping during sessions or smoking in the back alleys of Congress.
So what did Ninoy Aquino did or gave to this country that qualified him as a hero?
His so-called assassination made his incompetent wife President who also did nothing in her six years term as President. Most notable in those six years of Cory Aquino were eight to 10 hours brownout in Metro Manila, our economy reaching the bottom of the barrel, massive unemployment and the start of the hell known today as “traffic.”
Her death this time by natural causes made their nincompoop son Noynoy Aquino President whose most notable in those six years were: the hostage massacre in Quirino Grandstand, Mamasapano Massacre, the plunder through the DAP and PDAF, and the Dengvaxia Genocide of 800,000 schoolchildren.
The floods now in Metro Manila, worst ever in history, is another fiasco caused by Noynoy’s scrapping the P19-billion Laguna Lake Rehabilitation Project which would been the answer to the flooding. Of course that’s another story but not now.
And then there’s Kris Aquino. Just by being herself is enough to drive most sane people insane.
So do these “contributions” of Ninoy Aquino make him a hero? Certainly not! If this was in another country people would probably burn him at stake or have him drawn and quartered!
All his political life what Ninoy Aquino did was to promote himself and make his perceived rivals, in this case Marcos, look bad. It’s the classic case of “good versus evil” – him being the “good” and Marcos the “evil”.
One important incident that happened was the Plaza Miranda Bombing in which all the Liberal Party senatorial candidates were attacked with grenades during a proclamation rally, killing several people and mortally injuring the Liberal senatorial candidates. Ninoy Aquino, himself a Liberal Party senatorial candidate, blamed Marcos for the attack although strangely enough when the attack occurred he was nowhere near Plaza Miranda.
Years later it was proven that the attack was done by the communist and not Marcos. What is curious is that the leadership of the communist party at that time were all known associates of Ninoy Aquino from Tarlac.
And then there were talks that his so-called assassination was actually self-inflicted. Marcos lifted martial law in 1981 and what ensued was a general feeling of well-being and complacency. There was peace and the streets were safe and crime was down. People seemed contented as rice was plentiful and prices were stable so much so that they lost interest in the opposition mainly led by exiles in the United States.
Ninoy Aquino saw this and felt that his presidential ambitions were fading; he needed a spark to revive the people’s interest so he decided to go back to the Philippines. There were talks there would be an attempted assassination on him and that he would not really be killed but wounded, and from his hospital bed like a living martyr he would rally the people against Marcos.
Well, the plan backfired. Coming down from the plane he stumbled and the “assassin” Rolando Galman (by the way he used to work in Hacienda Luisita) fired, hitting him in the head instead of in the shoulder as was originally planned.
What gives credence to this story is the fact that his wife and son became Presidents but with all that power – why his son even removed a sitting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – yet they could not find the killer of their so-called hero.
Ninoy Aquino is not my hero, neither is Marcos. My hero is Paulino Alcantara. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
