The former flamboyant First Lady, Imelda Marcos advices the Libyan dictator to step down and urges him to follow the example of her husband to avoid bloodshed.
I am not sure if the octogenarian Ilocos Norte House representative’s memory is failing or the news story is accurate.
Ninety per cent of the story delves with the current unrest in Libya and related international stories but there is no direct quote from Imelda (House representative from Ilocos Norte and not Ilocos Sur) urging Gadhafi to step down.
Ferdinand Marcos did not step down. The world knows that. He was ousted by the Filipino people he oppressed in an almost bloodless People Power. He clung to power till the end for like any dictator, Marcos planned to be president for life with her immediate family members as successors in a botched dynasty-institution attempt. When told to "cut it and cut it clean", Mr. Marcos said that he was so "frustrated". Said differently but with the same meaning, he did not want to leave office.
If Marcos was not indeed interested in bloodshed as his wife now claims; the contrary proves correct. Victims of his brutal rule now starts collecting $1,000 compensation per head for the suffering and bestiality they endured.
They are 7000 plus souls of young and old; rich and poor; senators and common tao. Some of them were summarily executed, tortured, imprisoned without due process, disappeared from the face of the earth, raped and treated worse than a dog.
But what else is new for a revisionist who wants to rewrite history?
Filipinos are not dumb.
They know the real score.
And so the world does.
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