FACEBOOK:

The date has been set for the burial of Marcos at LNMBSeptember 18. We must start mobilizing the public. Plans and
preparations must be laid out now for the BLOCKADE. Pakiusap
lang kung pwede TIGILAN MUNA ANG ROUND ROBIN FREE-FORALL NG MGA DILAWAN VS DUTERTARDS VS KALIWA. We all need to
be united for this very important issue. If the burial happens, it
will symbolically exonerate Ferdinand Marcos from his past sins. It
will push BBM another step closer to the presidency. Lalo na
tayong mahihirapan paliwanagan ang milyon milyong gagong
mga bobotante na tunay na naniniwala na di dapat parusahan o
itakwil ang mga Marcos. Patunay ang NHCP na mali ang batayan
ni President Duterte na si marcos ay naging isang sundalo dahil
hindi
ito
totoo.
Tumututol ang Historical Commission sa pagpapalibing kay
Marcos dahil kelanman ay hindi naging guerrilla o sundalo si
marcos
noong
WORLD
WAR
II.
Ayon
sa
National
Historical
Commission
of
the
Philippines
ay punumpuno ng alamat, mga di nagtutugmang salaysay at
nababalot ng kasinungalingan ang pagiging guerrilla o pagiging
sundalo
ni
marcos.
Sinabi pa ng NHCP na mismong ang America na ang nagpatunay
na peke ang lahat ng mga medalya ni Marcos at wala ring
guerrilla unit na ang pangalan ay MAHARLIKA na pinalabas ni
marcos
na
sya
ang
namuno
nito.
President Duterte mali po kayo na naging sundalo si marcos.
Pakinggan
nyo
po
ang
pagtutol
ng
NHCP.
Tandaan nyo po na ang PINAKAMALAKING PAGKAKAMALI NYONG
ITO
AY
MAITATALA
SA
KASAYSAYAN.
GUSTO NYO PO BANG MATAWAG NA PINAKATANGANG PRESIDENTE
NA NAGPALIBING NG ISANG PEKENG SUNDALO SA LIBINGAN NG
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MGA
BAYANI.
Wag natin baliwalain ang issue na ito. Mas mahalaga ito for the
time being kaysa issue against salvaging and other matters. We
need to support prominent Duterte supporters who are with us in
this issue like Nene Pimentel, Alan Cayetano, Raffy Alunan III ,
Leoncio Evasco and many more. They may be our best bets to
make
Duterte
change
his
mind.
Pro Duterte, pro Pnoy, pro-Mar, pro Grace Poe, pro Binay, pro
Miriam
Pro Vice Leni , pro Cayetano, pro Chiz, pro Honasan at pro
Trillanes.
Magsama
sana
tayo
lahat,
Join
us
the
campaign
for...
NO
TO
MARCOS
BURIAL
IN
LNMB
HE
IS
NOT
A
HERO
ILIBING
SIYA
SA
ILOCOS!!!
AUGUST
14,at
LAPU-LAPU
PARK
LUNETA
8:00 to 12:00 PM

SENATORS ON MARCOS:
Where do all 24 Senators of the 17th Congress of the Philippines
stand on the issue of burying the late President Ferdinand
Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani?
(Say
*UPDATED

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OPPOSES/AGAINST:

Paolo
Benigno
"Bam"
Aquino
IV

Alan
Peter
Cayetano

Leila
Norma
Eulalia
Josefa
de
Lima

Pro-Tempore
|
Franklin
"Frank"
Drilon

Ana
Theresia
"Risa"
Hontiveros-Baraquel

Francis
"Kiko"
Pangilinan

Senate
President
|
Aquilino
"Koko"
Pimentel
III
Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV
SUPPORTS/IN
FAVOR:

Francis
"Chiz"
Escudero

Gregorio
"Gringo"
Honasan

Panfilo
"Ping"
Lacson

Emmanuel
"Manny"
Pacquiao
Minority Leader | Ralph Recto (When asked to comment on the
issue,
he
simply
said:
"It's
okay
with
me.")
Cynthia Villar

NO
STATEMENT/COMMENT:
Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay (But his father, former Vice
President Jejomar "Jojo" Binay publicly supported allowing the
burial of Marcos at the LNMB during the 2016 presidential
electoral
campaign.)

Sherwin
"Win"
Gatchalian

Loren
Regina
Legarda
Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri
NEUTRAL:
Richard "Dick" Gordon (When asked on the issue, he instead
suggested creating a "Libingan ng mga Pangulo" where Marcos is
to
be
buried.)
Majority Leader | Vicente "Tito" Sotto III (He stated: "I have no
strong convictions for or against it.")
"I WILL RESPECT THE DECISION OF THE

Juan
Edgardo
"Sonny"
Emmanuel Joel "Tesdaman" Villanueva

PRESIDENT."
Angara

NO
CLEAR
POSITION:
Joseph Victor "JV" Ejercito (In a recent TV interview on
GMANewsTV's NewsToGo, Kara David asked him to comment on
the issue, his response was: (non verbatim) "The law provides for
the burial of former Presidents there. But I don't want to judge or
be judged. Hayaan nalang natin ang Panginoon diyan. Yung aso
nga ni Cory na inilibing dun may full military honors pa eh, wala
namang
umalma
dun.
Let
history
define
itself.")
Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe-Llamanzares (During the 2016
presidential electoral campaign, Poe initially stated that she is
open to the idea of burying Marcos at the LNMB. She then
changed her position when asked during the live televised
presidential debates, saying that she opposed to it because, (non
verbatim) "it must be in accordance with the law because
burying Marcos is in conflict with a current law". Other reports
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suggest that her stance and position on the issue changed

variously during the campaign trail.)

DUTERTE AND MARCOS

As I have written in my recent columns, Ive put behind me my objection to
the election to the presidency of Rodrigo Roa Duterte, and I am one of
many citizens who are now giving him our support for his strategies to
make things better for our country. True, this maverick gentleman from the
south has brandished his unforgiving sword on drug users and dealers and
manufacturers (and hopefully drug lords) a reformative personal policy
that has drawn ayes and nays from the public. His vision of cleansing
society of forces of evil that destroy especially the next generation appeals
to me.
Criticisms of human rights violations do not affect the president, however.
And thats what bothers me. What he wants, he gets. And he listens to no
advice not even to solicited advice, I surmise, from his presidential
spokesperson, Ernesto Abella, whose unsullied admiration for his boss Ive
heard on various occasions, the latest one being at the celebration of
Silliman Universitys 115th Founders Day celebration sponsored by the
Sillimanians in Metro Manila.
Im still curious, with hope eternally springing from my human breast, about
whether he would listen to public opinion regarding the question of whether
the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos remains should be buried at the
Libingan ng Mga Bayani.
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Thousands upon thousands of rallyists expressed their vehement

opposition to the presidents decision to have the dictator buried in Taguig
by marching in the rain; not only were they yellow-colored elites, as
described by the pro-Marcoses, but included the best and brightest of
legislators and economists, Mar Roxas and Kiko Pangilinan, Victoria
Garchitorena, wealthy businessmen, poets and writers, poor-looking men
and women, and victims of martial law and suppressed freedoms of speech
and of the press. How can we allow a deposed dictator to be buried in the
hallowed grounds of men who valiantly, without forging tales of fake
medals, fought and died for their country?
The Marcos family was forced into exile in Hawaii in 1986. Marcos died in
1989. One recalls the 1992 agreement made between the administration of
former President Fidel V. Ramos and the Marcos family re allowing the
deceased Marcos return to the Philippines. The conditions, according to
Rafael Alunan III, who represented the Philippine government, were that
the body would be flown straight from Hawaii to Ilocos Norte, that it would
be given honors befitting a major, his last rank in the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, the body would not be paraded in Metro Manila, there would be
no burial at the Libingan, as Marcos had wanted to be buried beside his
mothers grave in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
Marcos remains arrived in September 1993. The conditions were met, the
body was kept in a refrigerated crypt in Ilocos Norte. During the last few
years, the Marcos family, some of whose members have been elected to
Congress and local political posts, has been asking for the transfer of the
body to the heroes cemetery within Fort Bonifacio in Western Bicutan,
Taguig, Metro Manila. The 1992 agreement is still binding, according to
Alunan, but President Duterte now has full authority to decide on the
transfer. On the strength of his friendship with the Marcos family, the
president has agreed to have Marcos buried in Taguig, with complete
military honors.
Opinion ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1
Now there exists a noisy recounting of the dark and cruel Marcos regime.
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The well-respected Boholano academician Jose Pepe Abueva in his

column The Bohol Chronicle, as early as 2015, wrote:
The cumulative outcome and costs of the Marcos dictatorship that added
over 13 years to his seven years as a constitutional president were
incalculable. He was not content with being the only president who had
been reelected to a second year of four years in 1969. However enormous,
his plunder of the nations wealth is only one of the costly consequences of
his evil rule.
During his two decades in power the Philippines fell far behind several
neighboring countries in East Asia in the pursuit of development, and
became the basket case in the region. Democracy was destroyed, the
economy was in ruins, and the culture of corruption, violence and cynicism
aggravated.
Thousands of Filipinos were killed, imprisoned, tortured, displaced from
their homes and communities, or simply disappeared without a trace. Also
with impunity, women were raped and degraded by the military, police, and
other criminal elements. . .
Comparisons have also been made between Ferdinand Marcos and Lee
Kuan Yews authoritarian style of governance and Singapores success,
wrote Abueva. But in his autobiography, From Third World to First: The
Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Lee relates: It is a soft, forgiving culture.
Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged
his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial.
Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and
children were allowed to return and engage in politics.
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Dolly de Leon, an active leader in the No-to-Marcos-burial in the Libingan

ng mga Bayani, in her relentless messages to her kababayans, even on
social media, cited President Dutertes pronouncement that he will allow
the burial of President Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani not because
he is a hero. He was a Filipino soldier, period.
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Dolly retorts: Not all soldiers were buried in the Libingan ng Mga Bayani.
Burying (Marcos) here will label him a hero whether he was a Philippine
solider or not. Those who were dishonorably separated, reverted, or
discharged from the service, and those who were convicted of an offense
involving moral turpitude cannot be buried at the cemetery. Marcos was
ousted from power. On these grounds alone, he is not qualified. Ferdinand
Marcos is not a hero. Only heroes are buried in the Heroes Cemetery as
the name so literally states.
Please consider your position on the matter, cries Dolly, et al.
Will President Duterte listen?
He will, if you believe that miracles happen.
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MAITUTURING si President-elect Rodrigo Duterte sa pinakasikat na

magiging pangulo sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas.
Dahil umabot ng mahigit 16 milyon ang mga Pinoy na bumoto para kay
Duterte sa nakaraang eleksiyon noong Mayo 9, maituturing na landslide
ang kanyang panalo sa kanyang mga kalaban.
Para sa mga Pinoy na dismayado sa pamamahala ni Pangulong Aquino at
sawa na sa araw-araw na nararanasang problema sa bansa, protest vote
na maituturing ang ginawang pagsuporta ng masang Pilipino kay Digong.
Hindi maikakaila ng papatapos na administrasyon ni Pangulong Aquino, na
siya at kanyang mga opisyal din ang nagpanalo kay Duterte.
Nakita ng publiko na sa katauhan ni Digong matutugunan ang kanilang
mga hinaing at mithiin na matagal na nilang kinikimkim sa kanilang
kalooban.
Ang malaganap na droga ang pangunahing problemang kinakaharap ng
publiko. Maraming pamilya na ang sinira nito at walang isa mang lider na
nakatugon sa tinatawag na pinakamalaking salot sa lipunang Pilipino.
Ito ang naging daan para manalo si Digong sa nakaraang eleksiyon.
Dinala ni Duterte sa kanyang kampanya ang isyu ng illegal drugs at
nangakong tatapusin niya ito sakaling mahalal bilang pangulo ng bansa.
Ngayon sa pormal na pag-upo ni Digong bilang ika-16 na presidente ng
Pilipinas, inaasahang tutuparin niya ang kanyang mga pangako lalo na ang
pagsugpo ng droga sa bansa.
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Magagawa niya ito kung nasa kanya ang suporta ng mga mamamayan
kaugnay ng kampanya kontra droga at kriminalidad.
Bukod sa mga isyu droga at kriminalidad, isa pang usapin ay ang
paglilibing kay yumaong dating Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos sa Libingan
ng mga Bayani.
Sinabi ni Duterte na hindi nagbabago ang kanyang desisyon na ilibing si
Marcos sa Libingan ng mga Bayani bilang dating sundalo ng bansa.
Batid ni Duterte na patuloy na nagkakahati-hati ang bayan dahil sa usapin
ng paglilibing ni Marcos sa Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Batay sa pahayag ni Duterte, nakatakdang ilibing si Marcos sa Libingan ng
mga Bayani sa Setyembre.
Ayon kay Duterte, gusto na niyang tapusin ang kontrobersiya sa usaping
ito at ang pagpapalibing sa kanya ang tuluyang magbibigay ng tuldok sa
matagal nang isyu.
Mismong si Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman
Jose Maria Sison ay nagsabi na hindi siya tutol sa pagpapalibing kay
Marcos sa Libingan kayat wala na dapat na isyu hinggil dito.
Ngunit alam natin na sa kabila nito, tiyak na patuloy na tututulan ng mga
makakaliwang grupo at maging ng mga Aquino na mailibing na si Marcos
sa Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Pero dahil kilala si Duterte na hindi nagpapatinag, tiyak na matutuloy pa rin
ang kanyang pangako.
Magiging maingay ang mga grupong ito pero sa kalaunan ay mabibigo
lamang sila.
Dapat suportahan na ng lahat ang posisyon ni Digong kaugnay ng
pagpapalibing kay Marcos sa Libingan ng mga Bayani.

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