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#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today, September 21, 1972. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… ImageImageImageImage
Conclusion, what was happeniong 50 years ago today, September 21, 1972: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… ImageImage
Here is a #PhilippineDiaryProject feature comparing and contrasting the two first person accounts of the establishment of the dictatorship: philippinediaryproject.com/2013/09/21/the…
Together, both accounts conclusively prove that martial law was not imposed on September 21, 1972. officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/decla…
Informative infographics on #ML50: officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/infog…
See the front pages from September 21-24, 1972. #ML50
#ML50 in context through actual newsreels from 1965-86. See actual footage of the FQS; the ConCon; of Metrocom chasing students near the Ateneo; of detainees in Camp Crame; see independent media reports, and state propaganda and critical documentaries: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
From The Historical Atlas of the Republic, #ML50's timeline. Image
#NeverAgain September 23, 1972 Image

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Sep 23
(thread) The real question we have to ask in remembering #ML50 is less how did Marcos manage to get away with it, but rather, how did so many who knew what was coming, fail to stop it? The timeline reveals to us it was like a trainwreck in slow motion. philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… Image
I have my own theories from reading up and listening to those who were active then. My theory is it took 1962-76 he actually did it in a lot of stages. What Makoy had going for him: every institution that could resist had cells of Marcos minded people. In media, Doroy Valencia...
in the courts, Fred Ruiz Castro, the Ilocano generals and all the colonels pissed off with the Commission on Appointments; legions of parents freaked out by hippies, priests and bishops freaked out by Reds, ditto businessmen big and small. Against him the usual intelligentsia...
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Sep 22
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 1) ImageImageImageImage
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 2) ImageImageImageImage
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 3) ImageImageImageImage
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Sep 21
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Teodoro M. Locsin recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972: Image
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Chino Roces reflected on his arrest on September 23, 1972: Image
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late broadcaster Jose Mari Velez recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972: ImageImage
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Sep 21
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 22, 1972 was a truly eventful day when martial law began to be implemented. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 1) ImageImageImageImage
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 22, 1972 was a truly eventful day when martial law began to be implemented. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 2) ImageImageImageImage
#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 22, 1972 was a truly eventful day when martial law began to be implemented. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 3) ImageImageImageImage
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Sep 21
Makes for interesting listening together with some additional things, a thread. So here's an interesting thing to watch and listen to.
I myself have a theory that the march was itself one that had its origins during the Japanese Occupation.
But equally interesting is how, once disgraced, the song made a manufactured comeback for campaign purposes, a years-long process I documented through this playlist: see the scope of the revival. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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Sep 21
Personally I do consider the 1935 Constitution the best one we've ever had. One thing that went for it: Marcos had to mount a self-coup and invent "people's assemblies" to get around it and junk it to make way for a constitution he wrote for himself.
Consider this: Congress had to be complicit, by accepting his bribe for its members to be automatic members of the Interim National Assembly his 1973 Constitution would create. The Constitutional Convention delegates had to be complicit, by accepting seats in the Interim Assembly
on condition they voted to approve the draft 1973 Charter. The Supreme Court, which, in response to the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in 1971, reserved for itself the right to review the factual basis for martial law, had to be complicit in accepting Marcos's condition
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