“My countrymen, as of the twenty first of this month, I signed Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law.”
There have been 3 declarations of Martial Law in the Philippines and the miscarriage of logic started at the second. The truth about the “dictatorship” and the sense of “opposition” collides up until today. But what really happened before, during and after the Martial Law is the only way to dispel the truth from the grave misconception proved today by our country’s bias coup plot for self-destruction and irreversible downfall.
The main and taught of “antagonist” of the history of the Martial Law in the Philippines was the best and the worst President – Strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos. Late President Ferdinand Marcos is the only one who directly came from being the Senate President to being the 10th President of The Republic of the Philippines. He is a lawyer who took his bar examinations after bailing out of jail for a case of an accused murder, he then topnotch the bar exams, obtained one of the highest scores ever recorded, immediately took the murder case filed under him after being a lawyer – won the trial by acquittal all by himself. He is a rare persona and once in a millennia embodiment of change and destruction. Our President Marcos is a Filipino role-model person and a cause crusader for leadership and patriotism. Right after the first quarter of his first term during that time, the Philippines is at the brink of a “Golden Era” in most ways everyone hates to admit. He is the President who re-established the country in a state of real progress and competitiveness after the inconceivable World War II. Of course there will always be someone who’ll be on the other side of the coin.
What caused the Martial Law is not Marcos; it is the “protagonist” of the history and the leading oppositionist – Senator Benigno Ninoy C. Aquino Jr. In his most controversial