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."