tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post953937050803007673..comments2023-10-20T21:46:49.945+08:00Comments on Philippine Commentary: The Dilemma over People PowerDeany Bocobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-66259094442263798122009-06-22T10:42:07.078+08:002009-06-22T10:42:07.078+08:00may i offer a suggestion, djb? that the name of th...may i offer a suggestion, djb? that the name of the posters be placed above the post, near the blogpost title?<br /><br />anyway, it's been a while since i read any of sassylawyer's blatherings.john marzanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08036820667908976630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-87761441446869548292009-06-22T10:12:04.467+08:002009-06-22T10:12:04.467+08:00Sparks, I'll have to agree with Dean Bocobo th...Sparks, I'll have to agree with Dean Bocobo that the problem is that there have been two "People Power" exercises--the first one apparently genuine and the second one obviously a coup led by power-grabbing entities, cheek-moled and otherwise. <br /><br />Allow me to quote from my old article, <a href="http://forthephilippines.blogspot.com/2008/02/let-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo.html" rel="nofollow">The conspiracy of Edsa 2: how Gloria Arroyo managed not to let President Joseph Estrada finish his term</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://forthephilippines.blogspot.com/2008/02/let-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo.html" rel="nofollow">The Edsa II "People Power" coup d e'tat was hatched through the coalesced leadership of elements of political opportunists galvanizing under then Vice-President Arroyo, rebel military influenced by ex-President Fidel Ramos, Catholic bishops led by Jaime Cardinal Sin, and Philippine leftists such as former communist rebel Satur Ocampo. Undoubtedly, there were other groups behind the unconstitutional fiesta mob rule of the 2001 Edsa. There were the influential business elites...<br /><br />[Mike Arroyo's own bloody revealing words, lifted from the Philippine Graphic:]<br />"And when EDSA happened, we texted everybody to go running there. EDSA, EDSA: everybody converge on EDSA!... Chavit Singson had Plan B involving elements of the military to strike the first blow... The move must be made at what De Villa called a 'defining moment.'... But the threat to march to MalacaƱang was for real. And so was the danger of bloodshed."</a>Jesusa Bernardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13216156182443307139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-54795584829074871452009-06-21T16:13:55.848+08:002009-06-21T16:13:55.848+08:00I suppose the problem is that there have been two ...I suppose the problem is that there have been two "People Power events"--the first being in my opinion a genuine revolution, as evidenced by a new constitution ratified at popular plebiscite. <br /><br />But Edsa Dos was a coup d'etat plain and simple, led by SCORP, in conspiracy with the AFP COS and GMA.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-21062949966664524532009-06-21T16:07:56.028+08:002009-06-21T16:07:56.028+08:00Sparks,
The end of the fascist dictatorship of Fer...Sparks,<br />The end of the fascist dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos was hailed the world over. The history of that era is one of acclaim for the Filipino People, under the label "people power." <br /><br />The grandeur of that achievement cannot possibly be tarnished or touched by the comments of some culinary blogger in a puny, dying newspaper in the main stream media of the Philippine Republic, indeed a dying but largely ignorable CRONY newspaper.<br /><br />But of course it is also unlikely we could aggrandize or make more of the 1986 event than what it was: the end of one dictator's rule but the restoration of an ancien regime that preceded it. <br /><br />What cannot be taken away is that 1986 was a revolution, but like all revolutions, this close to the event, the warts are entirely visible. <br /><br />Nonetheless, the vast audience of History will surely agree more with your rendition of that image than the wise cluck-clucking of those intent on unwisely forgetting the Past!Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.com