Filipinos in stupor, must wake up

I write the Inquirer not just for the negatives but also for the “good things” that I see it is doing as a service to the reading public. Please allow me to congratulate the Inquirer on the series of articles about martial law. Through real people still living in our midst, it put human faces to the atrocities committed during those dark years in our history, making fresh again the stories of the plunder, excesses and rights violations of the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.

Our youth do not seem to know what really went on during those years and cannot relate to that part of history—a very sad thing indeed. Something just went wrong with the way that part of Philippine history has been written and taught in schools.

As Raissa Robles stated in her very well-written article, Marcos family members are now very well-placed in government while continuing to fight to the hilt to keep their ill-gotten wealth. And watch out! They are now parked on the very doorstep of Malacañang, just waiting for the opportunity to regain the presidency and its powers.

How can we allow this to happen? It’s like a whole nation has been lulled into a

stupor from which we have to

wake up!

Let me thank the writers of the articles and the Inquirer for

keeping the memories of martial law alive.

—LOT ORTIZ- LUIS,

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