Sunday, November 27, 2016
The "Confession" of Fidel Valdez Ramos
"My atonement was leading the military and the police during the EDSA People Power Revolution. From the 22nd to the 25th of February 1986 and I stand by that record.It's there in the history books."--Response of the former Philippine President to the comment of Imee Marcos, daughter of Ferdinand Marcos, that he should also apologize for the human rights abuses committed during the Martial Law years.
Christian atonement is reconciliation with God as a result of Christ's death. In Judaism, it is reconciliation with God "by means of repentance of one's transgressions or sins."
A person apologizes for a wrong or injury he or she inflicted against another individual or society.
FVR, at the mercy of Convalescence and the Almighty, was chief of the Philippine Constabulary, forerunner of the Philippine National Police, that executed Martial Law that ruled the country starting in 1972 and lifted 9 years later.
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Peter La. Julian is not writing to be remembered.
He is trying to understand the anti-Marcos rhetoric of anger and hate in Christian Philippines.
This has been a one-sided monologue of the Aquinos whose business empire expanded a million times after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos and their leftist allies for more than 30 years.
PLJ has long accepted this reality, but he could not swallow this bitter cup of judgment against the dead man.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
FERDINAND MARCOS AND THE BITTER CUP OF JUDGMENT
"Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Put them in fear, O LORD
That the nations may know themselves
to be but men."-Psalm 9: 19-20
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has spoken: It is legal to bury the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani in Taguig, Metro Manila. Not as a hero, but as a former soldier and former president of the Philippines. The vote was 9-5 in favor of the burial. That was November 8, 2016.
And following the Ilokano tradition for the dead, the body was laid to rest on November 18.
This sparked a storm of protest led by the so-called Yellowtards fanned by disinformation spread by the biased mainstream media like the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN TV Network.
They spew words that only speak volumes of their kind of persons that they are. Such expletives are just "manifestations" of the dysfunction of the egoic mind, such as:
--"Bury him at the Bataan Nuclear Plant."
-- Bury him in a landfill."
-- We will exhume the body."
--Masarap bigkasin, 'HUKAYIN'
We can still create a new Philippines with open gentle minds and hearts bereft of anger and hate conditioned by past wrongdoings and injustice.
Give us emancipators and true reformers like President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
And compassionate religious leaders who can feel the pain and agony of the Anointed One as he was dying on the cross.
Religious leaders who can weep and see the message of the Christ: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Put them in fear, O LORD
That the nations may know themselves
to be but men."-Psalm 9: 19-20
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has spoken: It is legal to bury the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani in Taguig, Metro Manila. Not as a hero, but as a former soldier and former president of the Philippines. The vote was 9-5 in favor of the burial. That was November 8, 2016.
And following the Ilokano tradition for the dead, the body was laid to rest on November 18.
This sparked a storm of protest led by the so-called Yellowtards fanned by disinformation spread by the biased mainstream media like the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN TV Network.
They spew words that only speak volumes of their kind of persons that they are. Such expletives are just "manifestations" of the dysfunction of the egoic mind, such as:
--"Bury him at the Bataan Nuclear Plant."
-- Bury him in a landfill."
-- We will exhume the body."
--Masarap bigkasin, 'HUKAYIN'
We can still create a new Philippines with open gentle minds and hearts bereft of anger and hate conditioned by past wrongdoings and injustice.
Give us emancipators and true reformers like President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
And compassionate religious leaders who can feel the pain and agony of the Anointed One as he was dying on the cross.
Religious leaders who can weep and see the message of the Christ: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
FERDINAND MARCOS AND THE BITTER CUP OF JUDGMENT
"Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Put them in fear, O LORD
That the nations may know themselves
to be but men."-Psalm 9: 19-20
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has spoken: It is legal to bury the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani in Taguig, Metro Manila. Not as a hero, but as a former soldier and former president of the Philippines. The vote was 9-5 in favor of the burial. That was November 8, 2016.
And following the Ilokano tradition for the dead, the body was laid to rest on November 18.
This sparked a storm of protest led by the so-called Yellowtards fanned by disinformation spread by the biased mainstream media like the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN TV Network.
They spew words that only speak volumes of their kind of persons that they are. Such expletives are just "manifestations" of the dysfunction of the egoic mind, such as:
--"Bury him at the Bataan Nuclear Plant."
-- Bury him in a landfill."
-- We will exhume the body."
--Masarap bigkasin, 'HUKAYIN'
We can still create a new Philippines with open gentle minds and hearts bereft of anger and hate conditioned by past wrongdoings and injustice.
Give us emancipators and true reformers like President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
And compassionate religious leaders who can feel the pain and agony of the Anointed One as he was dying on the cross.
Religious leaders who can weep and see the message of the Christ: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Put them in fear, O LORD
That the nations may know themselves
to be but men."-Psalm 9: 19-20
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has spoken: It is legal to bury the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani in Taguig, Metro Manila. Not as a hero, but as a former soldier and former president of the Philippines. The vote was 9-5 in favor of the burial. That was November 8, 2016.
And following the Ilokano tradition for the dead, the body was laid to rest on November 18.
This sparked a storm of protest led by the so-called Yellowtards fanned by disinformation spread by the biased mainstream media like the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN TV Network.
They spew words that only speak volumes of their kind of persons that they are. Such expletives are just "manifestations" of the dysfunction of the egoic mind, such as:
--"Bury him at the Bataan Nuclear Plant."
-- Bury him in a landfill."
-- We will exhume the body."
--Masarap bigkasin, 'HUKAYIN'
We can still create a new Philippines with open gentle minds and hearts bereft of anger and hate conditioned by past wrongdoings and injustice.
Give us emancipators and true reformers like President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
And compassionate religious leaders who can feel the pain and agony of the Anointed One as he was dying on the cross.
Religious leaders who can weep and see the message of the Christ: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST'S VIEW ON WHY FERDINAND MARCOS SHOULD BE BURIED AT THE LIBINGAN
as published on the Manila Standard:
"I do not want one version of history to be absolutized and enshrined as historical dogma. This is the version of those who opposed Marcos, because there is another version of the story (one which I favor) that maintains that he acted in his best lights, as the law and the system at that time allowed, as sins and faults to which all of us must in one way or the other plead guilty!
"My real question is this: What exactly is the opposition to his burial at Libingan nga mga Bayani? By what logic? By what philosophical principle? By what ethical norm? By what legal precept? By what equitable standard?"
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On November 8, 2016, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 9-5, allowed Ferdinand Marcos, dead for 30 years, to be buried at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani.
Alleged Martial Law victims including University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila so-called "activists" staged protest actions slamming the decision of the highest court of the land.
"I do not want one version of history to be absolutized and enshrined as historical dogma. This is the version of those who opposed Marcos, because there is another version of the story (one which I favor) that maintains that he acted in his best lights, as the law and the system at that time allowed, as sins and faults to which all of us must in one way or the other plead guilty!
"My real question is this: What exactly is the opposition to his burial at Libingan nga mga Bayani? By what logic? By what philosophical principle? By what ethical norm? By what legal precept? By what equitable standard?"
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On November 8, 2016, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 9-5, allowed Ferdinand Marcos, dead for 30 years, to be buried at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani.
Alleged Martial Law victims including University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila so-called "activists" staged protest actions slamming the decision of the highest court of the land.
Friday, November 4, 2016
MORE DANGEROUS THAN SMALL-TIME DRUG PUSHERS
The Muslim rebel leader is more dangerous than the drug pushers and drug addicts that Mr. Duterte's police forces kill with impunity in the streets and sub-human dwellings in Metro Manila. When he was in power as chair of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, he lived like an ostentatious Oriental Potentate. He practically stole millions of government funds that would have been spent in projects benefiting economically-deprived Muslim areas in so-called Moro lands.
Welcoming a fugitive from justice, who caused the deaths of thousands in his "war" of liberation, and "lionizing" him in Malacanang leave a bad taste in the mouth. Mr. Duterte's behavior towards Misuari was as detestable as that of Mr. Aquino who received with open arms the corrupt pork barrel queen Janet Napoles in the Palace.
What actually was Nur's war of "liberation" that started in the 1970s? Liberate Muslims from their lands allegedly occupied by Philippine Armed Forces? Or liberate them from poverty because of their kind of social structure or is it religious structure? Changing reality with so-called "noble ideas" accompanied by force has never succeeding in history. In the Philippine case, it caused deaths and destruction and loss of money, reducing us further to abject poverty.
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"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."--1 Corinthians 13;2
Welcoming a fugitive from justice, who caused the deaths of thousands in his "war" of liberation, and "lionizing" him in Malacanang leave a bad taste in the mouth. Mr. Duterte's behavior towards Misuari was as detestable as that of Mr. Aquino who received with open arms the corrupt pork barrel queen Janet Napoles in the Palace.
What actually was Nur's war of "liberation" that started in the 1970s? Liberate Muslims from their lands allegedly occupied by Philippine Armed Forces? Or liberate them from poverty because of their kind of social structure or is it religious structure? Changing reality with so-called "noble ideas" accompanied by force has never succeeding in history. In the Philippine case, it caused deaths and destruction and loss of money, reducing us further to abject poverty.
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"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."--1 Corinthians 13;2
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