Blogpost #1: What really happened during the martial law

Everytime I open my social media account, every friends who are online wants to go back where Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law even though they don't know what really happened during those time. Even my father wants to go back there,too, because he told me that the law were so strick and every filipino citizens used to obey those law. Unlike in the present, every single filipino citizens breaks the law because the isn't strong enough because there is too much freedom that Noynoy Aquino gave us.

Base on my observation in the present, the Manila was a mess like everyone is breaking the law. Crimes were too populated, the city is full of trashes, the road is too mess that it's hard to pass by because there are full of obstruction sites and others part that our country has changed without Ferdinand Marcos.

When I read an article called "Experiences During Martial Law" by John Toledo, he experienced the cruelty during those time when he was an activist after the declaration of martial maw by Ferdinand Marcos. He was tortured ion the year 1977 for being a part of an activist and he was released in the year 1988 after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.

According to Toledo "The harshest of these were the illegal arrests and detention, forced disappearances, tortures, extrajudicial killings... Millions of people were directly victimized while the entire nation was intimidated".  He was trying to explain that all the innocent citizens were victimized by the cruelty of law without a reason and everyone died to it.

At least all the citizens were all disciplined and they got intimidated from the authorities and the military force unlike the present, mostly frequently filipino citizens were all breaking the rules like they can fight back to the authorities and they have the freedom to say something bad about the government. However, the problem about the days in Martial Law, the military force were abusing their powers to control the innocent citizens like they want to kill anyone all they want.

 Benjamin Pimentel wrote an article called "To Young Filipinos who never knew Martial Law and Dictatorship". This article talks about of how young Filipinos considering Ferdinand Marcos as the hero of this country because the country was neat and peaceful unlike the present. However, the author didn't agree that he was a hero because there were too many Filipino citizens and student were being tortured or killed by the military force.

According to Pimentel "Someone blew up that bust many years ago-which is really shame. It was hideous, but still, it could have served as a reminder of what we went through". He was trying to tell us that he had the worst experiences when he was young during the time of martial law.

This is the reason the young citizens from the present must know about what really happened during martial law days. It's true that everyone was feared and Marcos was an outstanding president but he cannot considered to be as a hero if he killed so many innocent citizens and students. Everyone was saying that he wasn't his fault to kill them it's the military but he let them kill anyone, so he's still remains as a bad person.

As a student from the present, I don't really know what happened during those times but on my opinion, I'm no one's side because Marcos killed too many innocent people and the present is worse as same as the martial law because the law wasn't really obeyed by the citizens and there are so many crimes here in the present that everyone dies everyday because of the number of crimes. The worst part of all this is the corruption, Marcos corrupt so many cash but for a good reason unlike here in the present, they do it for their greediness