Blogpost #2: Ninoy Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos

When I was in the age of 14 during the 2010 presidential election, everyone voted for Noynoy Aquino as the new president because he's a mother of the former president, Corazon Aquino, and the father of Ninoy Aquino. On my opinion about Noynoy, the reason why he wanted to be the new president because he wants to remain his legacy as an Aquino. On my opinion, he is just famous because of his doofus charismatic sister , Kris Aquino, made him want to be as to run for president.

Base on my personal observation through my social media account, everyone was telling that Benigno Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos were arch nemesis during the martial law era and they said that Marcos ordered the military force to kill Benigno. They said that Cory Aquino was the heroine of the country for setting us free during the martial law era. This topic talks about what really happened during the martial law era when Benigno was assassinated by the military force and the untold story between the Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos.

When Gemma Namenzo wrote an article called "The Untold Story : Marcos and Ninoy were more than close friends and Ferdinand Marcos considered Ninoy as his successor". This article talks about what really happened between them. He wrote that they started their friendships when they joined together the fraternity called Upsillon Sigma Phi from the University of the Philippines and Marcos did not order the military to arrest him and assassinated him.

According to Namanzo "In early August, FM and Ninoy talked about the latter returning to the Philippines and FM (Ferdinand Marcos) told him not to come home yet because he (FM) was weak and couldn't protect Ninoy." The reason why Benigno was assassinated because the army can kill anyone they want without Marcos' permission, so Marcos warned Benigno not to come home yet in order to make him safe.

How sad that Ferdinand Marcos tried so hard to stop his friend for telling him not to return for not to be killed by his military force and he was the most hated man in our country for killing his closest friend. He doesn't deserve what people think of him as a villain. I think I should take back what I said on my first chapter.

Ed Lingao wrote and article called "A different EDSA story". He wrote about after the assassination of Benigno Aquino by being shot from the military force. His wife declared a new people's power or so-called "EDSA Revolution" to avenge Benigno. However, the truth behind the EDSA revolution was that Marcos did not kill every single communist because he is showing to everyone that he's not the villain of our country.

According to Lingao "In the past, such assertions had merely dismissed as rumblings of Marcos symplathizers keen on putting their own spin into the history books to rehabilitate a fallen icon". He was explaining that we've been fooled by the history books and history teachers that Marcos killed anyone for ordering the military force but the truth behind is that the military took the blame on Marcos.

On my opinion, Cory Aquino should never been the president of this country if she didn't know the truth behind FM and Benigno Aquino. Not only Cory was the ignorant here but also us as a present filipino citizens for brain washing us through the book and the social media.

Ferdinand Marcos might be the infamous person in the world but on the other hand, he did something for us to make our country be disciplined to be safe. Marcos was like a father to us because he declared martial law in order us to be safe and to make our country neat. However, when Cory Aquino set us free not only us but herself and everything has changed to country into a rotten place. On my opinion, Marcos did not allowed us to be free because there lot of people who abused their freedom in order for us to be killed. It wasn't Marcos' fault to kill the innocent people, it was the military force's fault for abusing us.