“The past is never dead,” author William Faulkner always insisted. “It is not even past.” But are we, as a people, shackled by perpetual amnesia? Is 37 years ago beyond our capacity to remember?
Evening of September 21, in 1972, Ferdinand Marcos told us, without blinking: slavery was the price tag for democracy to survive here. Proclamation 1081 suspended human rights, padlocked Congress, censored the press. He managed to prostitute a number judges and military into service. And 14 years of the “New Society” ( a.k.a. dictatorship ) followed with looting, murder and mayhem.http://bit.ly/4COFmO
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