REVISING EDSA HISTORY By Ninez Cacho-Olivares The Daily Tribune, 27 February 2014 Noynoy clearly was into revising history — the history of Edsa l, or what the yellows love to refer to as the People Power Revolution. Truth is, it was not a revolution but a revolt against the dictatorship. As nothing had changed under the presidency of Corazon Aquino, Noynoy’s mother, who brought back pre-dictatorial rule and worse, had the elite who had been on self-exile in the US during the Marcos authoritarian rule back in economic and political power and even gave them back properties which they had already sold to the Marcos government--all for free. All Cory did was to replace, for at least a year, the Marcos dictatorship with her own as she had given herself absolute powers, making herself the sole government and the sole law, as she had abolished Parliament and even the Supreme Court, when she demanded the resignations of all the justices while replacing them with her allies who never went against her even when her acts were clearly against the Constitution. She came to power and was installed in Malacañang courtesy of Juan Ponce-Enrile and then Gen. Fidel Ramos. They had the arms, and the people then embraced the two and hailed them for giving the reins of power to Cory Aquino. None of these historical facts is being mentioned by Noynoy, in his revision of the Edsa history. For him, the Edsa revolt started in Cebu, and not in Metro Manila. To the Cebuanos, he gave that honor, as he transferred the yearly rites at the Edsa Shrine to Cebu, with the claim that he would be visiting the devastated areas to mark Edsa l. Just like his mother, Cory, gave the honor of the end of Marcos and freedom, and her rise to the highest political office and the revolt, to the American media, and of course, the American officials, whom she said helped deposed Marcos. She hardly gave credit to the Filipino people, who made the revolt possible, bringing along with it, the return of freedom. She never gave us back our freedom. The people did. Cory’s propagandists, not long after, in their chronicled propaganda, airbrushed Enrile out of history, and made her the hero of Edsa l, with the priests and religious portraying the ascendancy of Cory as a miracle wrought about by the Virgin Mother, thus bestowing on her near sainthood through her “anointment by God.” Yet Cory was never in Edsa while the four day revolt was ongoing. While she was in Cebu, it was not to launch a civil disobedience movement but because word was already out that Marcos and his military would be picking up all the opposition leaders, including her and the critical media personalities. She sought refuge in Cebu and had coffee with the elite of Cebu. The civil disobedience, or more accurately called the boycott of so-called crony corporations was already being done in Manila long before the Edsa revolt started. Even the boycott of the pro-Marcos newspapers was started by the journalists who were critical of Marcos. Edsa was started, not in Cebu, but in Edsa, the day before Enrile resigned as Marcos’ defense minister. The records prove it. Malaya, the then opposition newspaper, carried the story of Enrile’s resignation on the day Enrile and his RAMboys closeted themselves in Camp Crame and began thei revolt agaisnt Marcos and his dictatorship. Nowhere was Cory Aquino around, nor for that matter, was Noynoy in Edsa. It was of course the Filipino people who made the Edsa Revolt a success, as on that first day when Enrile and his handful of RAMboys seeking a defense position in Crame as the news broke out that a coup had been launched, that the people all rushed to Crame to provide food and prayers for the coup leader and his military, More and more people from Metro Manila and the Luzon provinces joined in. Perhaps the other Filipinos in the Visayas and Mindanano also staged demonstrations then, in support of the coup, but the Edsa Revolt never started in Cebu, as claimed by the revisionist Noynoy. He was as usual, banking on his parents’ name to make him out as a hero and giving all the credit to his parents for the Edsa revolt, but it certainly is not an accurate historical fact. If Cory had been, with the Cebuanos, to start the Edsa revolt, this never was a factor in the success of Edsa. If she had started the revolt with the Cebuanos, neither she nor the Cebuanos, all those 27 years have ever been historically mentioned as Noynoy revises history. But such is expected of Noynoy and his yellow mob, who grab undue credit for themseleves. At the Edsa rites in Cebu, he again grabbed credit, this time crediting his mother, and his father and his yellow mob in Cebu for the Edsa revolt’s success. And he criticizes the critical media for not sticking to facts in their reports, when he himself makes up tall tales in revising a historical fact.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:23:56 +0000
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