Punto-por-Punto nga pamalandong ni Zosimo Calle sa pamalandong ni Way Nada:
Political power has its relation to greed. I think Marcos is not immune to this thing when he grabbed power and declared Martial Law. But there are instances that leaders of a country will resort to drastic and emergency measure when they think that the country is in imminent danger of revolution. Marcos has this excuse of declaring "Martial Law" because in his judgment the Philippines was in danger of an armed revolution.
the constitution provides that public office is public trust. from the above, it cannot be denied that the armed revolution Marcos imagined was never true.it was only a product of an insecure man's imagination. we'll he's entitled to his own entertainment.
I believe Marcos had its good intention as every political leader in our country has. His motive in the declaration of Martial Law was to improve the lives of the people and change the Filipino society.
intention was/is/will never enough. His motive was to improve the lives of his family and cronies and change the Filipino society into his own kingdom. remember the family picture where the Marcos dressed up like a royalty?
When he declared Martial Law Marcos saw that the Philippines was in darkness and he established NEA [National Electrification Administration] and because he was a dictator he commanded; Let there be light! And light shone on every barrio of the Philippines.
every barrio? lamparilya tawn mi taman 1990s! if you mean light sa lamparilya, aw tinoud na.
When he saw that Filipino farmers were less abundant in their harvests he established NIA [National Irrigation Administration] and irrigation started flowing to every paddy and ricefield in the Philippines. Starting with the Masagana 99 program the Philippines was able to have abundance in the production of palay and for the first time in our history during Marcos time we exported rice to some parts of the world.
every paddy and ricefield? kanus-a ra gani to nagka-irrigation sa pilar? 1990s na to oi. Masagana 99 was a total failure. If anything, ang kurakot ray nigana adto.
Before our export products like copra and sugar were conducted in free enteprise style by greedy capitalists who transacted business in the high seas without the knowledge of the government. What I mean is that our export crops are smuggled outside the Philippines without paying taxes to the government. Marcos revised this method by monopolizing the export of sugar and copra by government owned corporations so that the people will be benefitted by our own export products.
marcos saw that there was big money in copra and sugar that's why he monopolized it. he wanted control of the money from the industry. and look where it ended. the sugar and coco industries was in doldrums at the time of his ouster.
remember the coco levy funds guys? the fund was created by our farmers from their hard earned money. it was used by Marcos and cronies, particularly danding cojuangco, to buy shares in the phils foremost bluechip company, San Miguel.
During Martial Law the Philippine economy was entirely an agriculturally based nation and because of Marcos lofty ambition to promote the lives of the Filipinos he started to industrialize the whole Philippines. He invited foreign capitals to invest in our country. He established EPZA [Export Processing Zone Authority] in Bataan, Intel in Baguio, the Mactan Export Processing Zone in Cebu and the processing of electronic spare parts in Pasig. To generate power for these industrial zones he commended the expertise of Westinghouse Inc. to start building the nuclear plant to power electricity needs for these industrial complexes and electric consumption for the people of Luzon.
and what happened to the bataan nuclear power plant? billions and billions of dollars ended up nothing. bisan flashlight na lang unta di jud kapasiga.
He also invited foreign capitals of the car industry to invest in the Philippines and with Filipino automotive engineer's designed cars we started designing for Filipino use and export to other countries. Toyota has the Tamaraw model, Mitsubishi has the Cimmaron, Volkswagen has the Sakbayan and Ford has the Feira. These are the initial models for development in the Philippines. Expecting the rise of the transport industry Marcos built the Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway from Mindanao to Luzon. He built also the two super-highways, the north and the south.
from Mindanao to Luzon? where is it? can't see it there. i had the chance to take a landtrip from manila to bohol last year. was it marcos idea? were the roads built by Marcos? NO!
With this development there was no mass migration of Filipino workers to the Middle East. And the political opposition did not like this that they called Marcos a power hungry dictator. They protested that Marcos should conduct elections. Marcos conducted election but the opposition don't have a ghost of a chance of winning because they cannot show to the people any performance that will attract voters to vote for them. So the started the issue that Marcos was a cheat. Not only that they accused him as a thief.
Marcos had long been a thief and cheat. and by the way, he was a murderer, too!
They demanded an election because they had had enough.
The leftists not to be outdone with issues started destabilizing the government of Marcos by penetrating the workers with communists propaganda and urging them to unionize. The first two processing plants to fall were in Cainta and Pasig. Barbie who was making dolls in Cainta and employing thousands of Filipinos transferred to Bataan EPZA but Bataan EPZA was also penetrated by leftist union and eventually like a sand castle everything crumbled because of the penetration of labor unions.
labor unions are for the protection of our lowly paid workers. its for the protection of their rights. if the factories closed, it was because they were violating labor laws. they were violating the rights of the Filipino workers in their own land.
And then the Philippine economy collapsed and rumors floated that Ninoy Aquino is coming back to the Philippines. True enough to our expectation he returned bringing along with him a number of journalists. Inside the plane while interviewed he averred that he is not the enemy of Marcos but the economy. Of course he is the enemy of the government because some people believed that he orchestrated in the collapsed of the Philippine economy.
i could not imagine how ninoy orchestrated the collapse of the phil economy. economics 101: kung walay kwarta mga tawo kay toa ang kwarta sa gawas gitaguan ni marcos, especially in switzerland, way demand, way halin mga kompanya, so magsira sila, mawad-an ug trabaho ang mga empleyado,etc...
The reason why he brought along with him a phalanx of news reporters is because he knew that he is the enemy of Marcos and any untowards incident these newsmen will be witnesses to his execution.
the reporters were not brought by Ninoy. they went with him.
After his assassination at the airport tarmac is also the start of the demonization of Marcos. The sympathy of the people was with Ninoy even if Marcos had done more to the Filipinos than any other leaders of the Philippines.
he need not be demonized. he was a demon long before that.
According to the words penned by a famous bard it says; "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones..."
way nada!
Filipinos today forget the good deeds of Marcos because Marcos political enemies are still with us and they are now in power in government. And the industrialization of the Philippines which Marcos started is completely forgotten. The EPZA, the Bataan shipyard and the car industry which he started come to a complete halt and for this reason started the mass migration of laborers to the Middle East and some parts of the world.
Marcos deeds? we didn't forget, and never will. and we'll always remember.
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