Once people get a chance to take a closer look at what actually happened during the Marcos regime and the lead up to the revolt, they will realize that the glorious tales surrounding the Edsa revolution is like, as the saying goes, a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
If you ask several people what they remember about Marcos or the Edsa revolution, they will give you several versions of what actually occured.
But of course, we all know the media plays out only one version — that Marcos was the big bad bogeyman that had to go.
There is no question that Marcos did abuse his power and overstayed in his seat. However, if people do the math, we find that Marcos was actually only a dictator since 1972 when he declared Martial Law, curtailed press freedom, and suppressed other civil liberties.
So technically, he was only a dictator for 14 years not the 20 years that people keep harping about. Not a lot of years compared to the 25 years of banal mediocrity that prevailed after Marcos was ousted.
Although he was allegedly corrupt, NONE of the allegations against him were brought to court.
In fact during his early years in the Presidency, Marcos had spent significant amounts on infrastructure projects, which Filipinos are still using today.
He also established outstanding diplomatic relations with the international community that earned him respect with the likes of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and American diplomats.
In retrospect, Filipinos should also give credit to Marcos himself for the success of a peaceful revolution in the country because he made it easy for everybody.
The soldiers in 1986 did not fire a single bullet on any of the protesters on Edsa because Marcos and his supporters did not order them to do so.
Unlike the leaders in China who ordered the Tiananmen Square massacre or unlike Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his supporters who do not seem inclined to think twice about killing demonstrators on the streets of Tripoli, Marcos did not let the uprising lead to bloodshed.
This fact should say a lot about Marcos and his alleged hunger for power — that it may have been GROSSLY EXAGGERATED.
TODAY.....
According to NOYNOY AQUINO history taught in Philippine schools should consist only of “truthful information” and not “the web of lies spun by propagandists and revisionists.” This is what he makes the underlying principle in his latest project — to rewrite Filipino history books according to what he thinks actually transpired.
CONCLUSION....
To tell you PEOPLE, NOYNOY wants history to fit his DELUSION, that his family are FAMILY of heroes. In truth, they are: TRAITORS , SCAMMERS, and POLITICAL OPPURTUNIST...