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.