Are we back to the times when this country was ruled by a tyrant, and its population cowered in fear like craven cowards? It took the people more than 20 years to wake up and force the Marcoses out of the country for their unparalleled corruption and greed.
Now they are back with a vengeance and rubbing it in. The Marcos patriarch is now a “hero”—thanks to President Duterte and the nine justices of the Supreme Court (namely: Diosdado Peralta, Presbitero Velasco, Arturo Brion, Jose Mendoza, Jose Perez, Lucas Bersamin, Teresita LeonardoDe Castro, Mariano del Castillo and Estela Perlas-Bernabe) who have shown nothing but contempt for what the people had fought so hard for in 1986.
Betrayal of the public trust could not have been more egregious. Just for whatever symbolic value it may have, someone—anyone—should file impeachment proceedings against the President and the nine justices for the gravest insult they have done to our people’s honor and sense of decency.
Granted that nothing will come out of it, given the fact that our congressmen and senators (who have the power to impeach and convict them) are no better than lapdogs of the President, still it will send a clear message to the entire world that we are not taking all this crap sitting down. If I only knew how, I would have done it myself.
A voice in the wilderness is all it takes for history to record that not everyone in this country is a coward.
ANNALEE LAUDER, annaleelau@gmail.com