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Us president declare martial law9/9/2023 ![]() Last night he, Flynn, Giuliani, and Powell met in the Oval Office to plot a military coup against our government. It doesn't matter what Trump rejected or embraced. Towards the end of his military-backed rule, however, Marcos’s war medals were revealed to be fake, and there was no record of his claim to have led a guerrilla unit against the Japanese occupation forces in the Philippines during the Second World War.THEY WERE PLOTTING A COUP. Throughout his strongman rule, Marcos perpetuated myths that glorified his exploits, especially his World War II escapades. The Los Angeles Times reported that during a stop at San Francisco Airport, she once spent $2,000 in chewing gum, and once ordered an airplane that was already in mid-air to do a U-turn and go back to Rome and pick up a cheese that she had forgotten to purchase. During a ninety-day shopping spree in 1983, she spent $7 million. Marcos was also infamous for her lavish shopping sprees. The construction was not halted because the First Lady did not want to miss the opening of her grand show. It also turned into a grand mausoleum, for 169 workers who were buried under drying cement when its roof collapsed. Instead it became the symbol of the Marcos government’s misprioritization of public funds $25 million that was supposedly earmarked for a new wing of the Philippine General Hospital was siphoned off to build this Imelda’s ode to ostentatious display. One of these white elephants, the Manila Film Palace, was scheduled to host the first ever Manila International Film Festival. Worse, these projects were overpriced and veritable sources of corruption. These projects were built to showcase not Philippine culture, but high-brow culture from the West. Marcos’s wife, Imelda, constructed vanity projects, such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Folk Arts Theater, and the Manila Film Palace. The Marcos family was also known for its excesses. This unbridled corruption earned Marcos the Number 2 spot in the all-time list of the world’s most corrupt leaders in 2004. Marcos also forcibly took hold of businesses owned by families of his rivals and critics-among them the TV network ABS-CBN, the power firm Manila Electric Company (Meralco), and banks such as the First United Bank-and handed them to his cronies. He abolished Congress, dissolved the vice presidency, canceled the 1973 presidential election, shut down mass media, and jailed critics of his administration, including senators, congressmen, print and broadcast journalists, labor leaders, church leaders, and student activists, among others. With one fell swoop, Marcos set up a one-man authoritarian regime. That is why declaring martial law became a necessity for Marcos, Sr.-to remain in power, to continue to plunder the Philippine economy and to suppress the growing opposition to his rule. Obviously, he was not allowed to run for the office of President in 1973. Marcos was elected in 1965 and was reelected in 1969. The 1935 Philippine Constitution allows a President a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms. Short answer: to cling to power, and to continue to enjoy the perks and funds that come with being the President. The bigger question, however, is why Marcos declared martial law. ![]() ![]() Did Marcos secretly declare martial law on September 21, and then wait two days before announcing it? Did Marcos antedate the proclamation? Was it because twenty-one is a multiple of seven, and the number seven is said to be the favorite of Marcos, who is widely believed to be obsessed with numerology? The Official Gazette, the principal publication of the Philippine government, however, dates the declaration of martial law back to September 21, 1972.įrom the outset, there was something sneaky or sinister about this declaration. spoke on national television and radio to announce that he had imposed martial law on the entire Philippines. That day, September 23, at exactly 7:17 p.m., then-President Ferdinand E. Who stole my cartoons? Who robbed me of my right to watch cartoons on a Saturday after a full week of school? And then I was mad-teeth-gnashing, lip-curling mad. Still, just static.Īt first, I was confused. I smacked the TV set, thinking that there was something wrong with the reception. ![]() But on that fateful day, there was nothing on TV. One TV channel used to show cartoons all day- Popeye, Sinbad the Sailor, Harvey Comics, Gumby, and the likes. I was still in grade school in Manila, and it was my habit at that time on Saturdays to watch animated cartoon shows on TV. ![]() I remember the day martial law took effect. ![]()
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