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Filipinos, young and old, have a lot of good things to say about the former president. I cannot blame them, the old perhaps have experienced the "worst" during the Marcoses' "conjugal dictatorship", and the presidency of Aquino have somehow served as a breather, no curfews, no illegal detentions, no outlandish display of wealth, just a plain housewife with a penchant for yellow; the young, I'd like to blame our flawed history textbooks for teaching and disseminating misinformation of our nation's history/herstory, which glorified Cory for delivering this nation from the evils who were Ferdinand and Imelda.
For me, President Cory would forever be that housewife who could have changed this nation, but opted not to. I expect raised eyebrows here. She's just a plain housewife, what would you expect of her? Yes, that's the very reason why she should not have been elected president, and she should not have allowed herself to occupy that vital position. She could have said no, and she could have been heroic and selfless for that. But she let herself be directed by people who have their own vested interests and by people who, I would like to believe, are unthinking sentimentals.
President Cory would forever be etched in the Filipinos' hearts as the president who have instituted CARP as the pillar of her administration. It was her administration's battlecry. More than a decade after its implementation, studies have reached the same, morale-dampening conclusion: CARP is a failure.
For the hundred different reasons, these analysts, foreign and local alike, have cited as causes of CARP's failure, one stands out. It is Aquino's failure to set an example by including her family's hacienda under the agrarian reform law.
The Filipinos had time and again proven that despite repeated sufferings and innumerable deaths caused by a person/or persons, we easily forgive and more unfortunately, forget. Now, we are reaping the consequences of our mistakes, to some people, the consequence is more painful, it's death.
Death to the fourteen peasants at Hacienda Luisita who have allegedly tried to defy the law imposed to the tenants of that 6,000 hectares of hell. Whatever the reports say, I am not interested to know, all I am waiting for is Cory's appearance on tv, see some faked emotions and hear what she has to say. I am waiting for her apology a long time ago, ever since I started to ask a serious, unchildlike why. Now, I am waiting for her apology for shamelessly ruining the future of those farmer's children. All they want is a hospitalization benefit, maybe they have asked too much, too much that it needs their blood to repay for irking the smiling gods.
Let me end this by saying that we all grow old and die, and the thousands of hectares of land we have greedily acquired will be of no use when that time comes, because we'll only need six feet of soil to cover our caskets.
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sensitively emphatic. i could feel your angst between the lines.
me thinks...
tita cory was not in the first place, is not and will never be sold out to CARP. the way i look at it, the program was adopted by her administration for a rush-slash-lack of political platform and as a way to bridge the gap between cory's elite status and the majority of the impoverished masses and as means to gain support -- in short a plain propaganda with the end in view of winning the support of filipinos to lend a semblance of 'mandate' of the people to the presidency, which somehow served her well (though shaky) till the end of her administration.
you're right, she could have siezed the rare opportunity and changed the course of our nation's history for the better. but even that, she wasn't prepared for. she was mourning for the death of her husband and throughout her term the filipinos did nothing but mourn with her.
and like a wake it wasn't all crying all the time there were also some pakape/salabat at tinapay. and yes, there was the pasugal to keep the people awake.
so you may ask: where then was transparency, sincerity, and moral acendency during her term??? i'd like to believe that these words never left the pages of the dictionary.
yes,a breather, she was.
percolatte said...
2:09 PM
una kong basa, cory and the crap! wala lang. :D
i was a fan of cory... feeling ko kasi, siya ang dahilan why the philippines was finally liberated from the marcoses. i was young then.
was disturbed when i read about the news re luisita. and cory said she would offer prayers!!!
- noringai
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5:30 PM