AND TODAY, Feb. 25, is a holiday. So what are we celebrating or whose death anniversary are we commemorating?
Not that I’m complaining. Any day declared a holiday is always a welcome respite from work and it being a Monday made it a long weekend, perfect for a three days, two nights Boracay or Bohol beach fun or just a staycation in any of the lovely hotels in the city. Oh it’s the celebration of the spirit of EDSA, what utter nonsense!
Every time the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” mention in revered tones the so-called spirit of EDSA somehow it never fails to bring a sudden urge to either throw up or laugh, probably both.
People, there’s nothing mystical about the former Highway 54, it’s just a road. Perhaps its only historical significance was that it was named after Epifanio Delos Santos who happens to be some sort of literary and artistic genius.
For more than 30 years the government has been spending huge amounts of the people’s money celebrating the grandeur and conquest of the Republic of the Philippines by the Aquino family, their cronies and the oligarchs. After more than 30 years the Philippines is no better off or probably worst than it was before until this hick mayor from Davao City took everyone by surprised and became president and started dismantling the oligarchs.
I’d say we’re now much better off after the “lost years” of the Aquino regime.
There is no “EDSA Revolution” as a true revolution is a complete change of systems and form of government.
What happened was that a government run by a percieved strong man and his cronies was just replaced by an incompetent woman and her family and their crony oligarchs.
There is no “Miracle on EDSA”. Perhaps the only miracle was that Filipinos were duped into believing that Cory Aquino was the “saint” that would deliver the Philippines from the clutches of the “evil empire” into the promise land. Of course we all know that nothing of that sort happened.
What really happened in EDSA or Camp Crame to be exact was a mutiny of then Defence secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and Philippine Constabulary chief Fidel Ramos; the so-called heroine of EDSA was not even there for the whole duration of the mutiny.
Cory Aquino was hiding in a convent in Cebu and only came out when she learned that then President Ferdinand Marcos left Malacañang.
Perhaps the miracle there was how she maneuvered herself and snatched the presidency from the true leader of the opposition, Salvador Laurel.
We had 12 years of the Aquinos in power; Cory served for six years as President and her son Noynoy also served as President for six years. Now tell me, was the Philippines any better under the Aquino mother and son presidency?
What is Cory Aquino’s legacy to this nation? Please don’t tell me she restored democracy; we were already a democracy before she became president. We were having local and national elections before she became president. So what was there to restore?
I remember during the Cory years the eight-hour brownouts in Metro Manila, the start of what is known today as Metro Manila traffic, the almost monthly coup d’etats of disgruntled soldiers, the high unemployment as the economy was below recession as we had almost zero foreign investments.
Cory Aquino was probably the most incompetent President we ever had. Of course second only to her nincompoop son Noynoy who also became President because she died.
Her son Noynoy became President because she died just before the 2010 elections and people were swept with a mass hysteria of sympathy that literally they voted for Noynoy as President when all they wanted was just to say condolence because his mother died. Mind you there was nothing dramatic about her death; she died of natural causes – colon cancer, I think, from a lifetime of eating high cholesterol and fatty food.
And what is that nincompoop’s legacy after six years as our President, never mind the 12 years he spent in Congress and Senate doing exactly nothing as after 12 years not a single bill or law was passed by him.
Let’s start with the Quirino Grandstand Hostage Massacre wherein nine hostages died – all tourists from Hong Kong.
And then we have the Mamasapano Massacre: 44 troopers from the Philippine National Police’s Special Action Force or SAF were massacred by members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Force or MILF.
All these people died because of Noynoy Aquino’s arrogance and incompetence.
Let’s not forget the Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF and the Development Acceleration Fund Scam where the country lost billions of pesos in a sanctioned system of corruption authorized by, of course, Noynoy Aquino.
Finally, the rise of the illegal drugs trade becoming the growth industry under the presidency of Noynoy Aquino.
And for the grand finale: we have the state-sponsored inadvertent genocide of 800,000 schoolchildren sentenced to death by vaccinations of the experimental drug Dengvaxia manufactured by French pharmaceutical Sanofi Pasteur courtesy, of course, of then President Noynoy Aquino and then Department of Health secretary Janette Garin.
Please let us no longer glorify the Aquinos; they are not in power anymore, thank God! We have enough of the hypocrisy. EDSA celebration? Really, who cares! (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
