September may as well be declared Ferdinand Marcos Month, and not only because it was the month Marcos made himself dictator and put us under martial law ; it was also the month he did the two things that bookended, thereby sealing, our fateful, traumatic, and closure-defying relationship to him.
The conditions do seem consolidating for a second coming of martial law. After all, President Duterte is himself a professed Marcos idolater and has openly, constantly espoused martial law or some variant of it. With a sycophantic Lower House and a more or less acquiescent Senate and Supreme Court, one institution is all that remains to be co-opted to complete the gang — the armed forces.
Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law was not your usual coup; it was not the military taking over the civilian government. It was the sitting civilian President himself chucking the Constitution and subverting the democratic way of life established under it and the rights and freedoms sanctified by it, and proceeding to assume dictatorial powers. He definitely could not have managed that, or gone on managing all those 14 years, without military support.
The Philippines did have its share of coups of the classic type, but these were evidently ad hoc. All 7 were mounted by the same fraternity and against the same government , suggesting narrow motives, and at intervals so close they tend to reflect ignorant persistence rather than knowing deliberateness. All attempts failed, naturally.
Just like what's happening rn.
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