Ninoy Aquino

This will contradict my early posting that was published by Arab News on 23 August 2003. I have since realized that Ninoy brought nothing to our country but discord and destabilization. His supporters only paint him as a modern hero by dying a dramatic death at the runway of the then Manila International Airport. Since most Filipinos are fond of soap operas ‘teleseryes’, they willingly allow Cory’s supporters to rename Manila International Airport to Ninoy Aquino International Airport. It’s a shame since the country’s premier airport should be named after the capital city. I hope PGMA would endorse the bill renaming NAIA back into MIA again.

Cory, the aging and cancer stricken widow of Ninoy, is still active in the media spotlight by criticizing the present administration. Cory should really be blamed to what is happening to our country right now. The Filipino people are still suffering from the ills of her administration. She’s the mastermind of our flawed 1987 constitution that has so many economic hurdles that stops our country from moving forward. She along with the hypocrite CBCP hindered the progress of our nation by their constant threat of destabilization and rallies at the EDSA.

A letter of Ninoy’s brother in law, Ken Kashiwahara was published in the Philippine Star today. Ken willingly give out that Ninoy was expecting to die at the NAIA. They heard rumors weeks before Ninoy departed from Boston that there’s a plan to kill Ninoy. Ninoy was dying at that time and he knows it. He believed that instead of dying from his heart condition, he might as well die a dramatic death at the MIA runway. There’s even the chance that Ninoy himself contacted those people to kill him.

The PR machine of the Cojuanco and Aquino were successful in painting that freedom was restored when the Marcoses fled the country. What the people didn’t realize at that time is that they were only free from Marcoses but not from the economic woes that they face after the Marcos downfall. Democracy and freedom should not only be restricted to the restoration of the voting rights of the people. It should first and foremost address how an ordinary citizen could feed his family. Freedom should tackle and solve poverty. Six years of Cory’s misadministration and the Filipinos are still suffering until now.