Duterte Youth members, not a loss to society.
From the black Friday protest in Quirino Grandstand last Nov. 25, I crossed Roxas boulevard to have Siomai and a liter of water on the stands along the walkways of Rizal Park.
As I was crossing, I saw a long banner, I supposed it was another group of anti-Marcos protesters just stationed on the other side of the road to widen the reach of the protest, but I was wrong. It was a group of 30 people who identified themselves as Duterte Youth, holding up a banner in support of President Duterte and the Supreme Court’s decision to bury the late dictator in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
People are entitled to have their own opinions, but the Duterte Youth are just plain unreasonable.
Representatives of the "Duterte Youth" want Vice President Leni Robredo and other cabinet secretaries to step down of their government posts for criticizing President Rodrigo Duterte's decision on the Marcos burial.
In another statement, they said Marcos critics should be banned from riding the LRT. And in more statements, just more of their idiocy.
Its chairman Ronald Cardema can be described as plainly stupid for saying Marcos should not be portrayed 100% evil. If it were up to us, the scales could not even contain how much evil can be attributed to Marcos and his murderous reign.
Cardema should read more before showing up in the streets where he will be interviewed by media. Because if people read him, they’ll absolutely say he is stupid.
80% of his term is still present and enjoyed by the people today? Well, 100% of the debts he left the country to struggle in paying for is still suffered by the people today. Marcos has stolen much from the people, not only in terms of finance, but also in terms of justice and reparation for all the damages the regime has wrought to the nation.
Such arguments that keep on being used by ill-informed youth is the very sickness that keeps on hurting the victims of the murderous regime of Marcos. Reading more and inquiring deeper into the context of the history of the Martial law is imperative nowadays.
It is beyond belief that there are still students who are proud to express their being a ‘Pro-Marcos’ as if it adds to their social status or improves the way they are seen by their peers. These are the same students that criticize students like me who are willing to take the fight to the streets, where 30 years ago, the Marcos dictatorship was defeated.
Arguments by these students such as “Di pa naman kayo buhay nu’ng panahon na yun ah?,” “Ipokrito! Walang alam! Bias!,” are too pitiful to even comprehend. But I can never blame them because they are only victims of a poisoned history of Martial Law.
They have been inculcated the defiled version of the bloody regime, the revisionist perspective of the lot. It is quite saddening that historical revisionism is still persistent among youth given that the Martial Law regime is only 30 years distant to the present. It’s unbelievable that the history classes are still inadequate to tell the realities of the atrocious Marcos rule.
How can the hundreds of thousands of people that filled EDSA from Ortigas Avenue all the way to Cubao be forgotten and be claimed as simply lethargically-informed of the greatness of Ferdinand Marcos?
Martial Law is, and always will be the murderous regime that is internationally infamous. Ferdinand Marcos will always be the president responsible for it and the 3,257 murders, the billions of pesos that were stolen from the national treasury, and the stolen future from the Filipinos. And Rodrigo Duterte will forever be known as the president who buried him in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
I seriously tip my hat in respect for the supporters of these strongmen. You have officially become completely irrelevant in our nation’s struggle for true freedom and peace. You have completely taken the shape of Rizal’s “Society’s Cancer,” and with that, expect no one to touch you. Because unlike people inflicted with contagious diseases, you are not worth embracing.
