#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Teodoro M. Locsin recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Chino Roces reflected on his arrest on September 23, 1972:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late broadcaster Jose Mari Velez recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 Interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late journalist (and at the time, ConCon delegate) Napoleon Rama recounted his arrest early in the morning of September 23, 1972:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late senator Soc Rodrigo reflected on his arrest on September 23 1972 and life as a prisoner:
#ML50 interviewed by the late Cynthia Sycip, the late Aurora Aquino recounted what it was like for a mother to hear on September 23, 1972 of her son's arrest shortly before midnight, September 22, 1972:
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(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…
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...
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=…
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
My talk's entitled "Always revise," which I think, as hopefully we'll see, is a good and necessary thing.
This is a week heavy with memory, particularly this year, as we remember 50 years since martial law was proclaimed. But what we actually remember, or are called to remember, is itself interesting for what it reveals.