PREFERRING DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY?
“mas kailangan ang
bansa natin ang desiplina,kaysa demokrasya, kaya kailangan pa 1,2,o tatlong
marcos para tumino ang pilipinas.”
“Si marcos parang sa china ang batas niya, mas
nanaisin ko pa na walang kalayaan kesa ngayon na malaya k nga puro paghihirap
nmn, tignan mo ang china at singapore ang pamamahala ni.marcos the same,
nakamit ang kalayaan kaya nga malaya pumatay,malaya magnakaw,kalayaan para
lamunin ang kaban ng bayan yun ba sasabihin.mo na kalayaan, lintek na kalayaan.”
We have already
restored democracy, no matter how limited it is. Do you mean to say that
dictatorship or one man rule where we will have a President/King for life just
like in the middle ages is far better. Ok, this democracy is not what we want.
It merely restored the elitist democracy prior to martial law. But that only
means that the struggle for a genuine democracy of the people remains and must continue to be fought for.
Lord Acton said that power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. And that is what the Marcos dictatorship was, where all governmental powers were in the hands of one man. Is that what we want. Under the Marcos dictatorship, there was no press freedom. This freedom in the internet would not even be possible. Is that what we want? I agree with you and condemn the subsequent administrations which continued to serve the interest of the elite. But most certainly, I do not agree that the Marcos dictatorship is better than a government where there is a separation of powers, where each branch of government can check the abuse of the other.
People were arrested for opposing the dictatorship and have stayed in detention for years without being charged at all. Is this what we want? We remain slaves of an unjust and exploitative system after Marcos. That does not mean that we have to restore a rotten system which we have already toppled.
We have courts before which do not have independence as the tenure of judges was dependent on the whims and caprices of Marcos, who can be removed by Marcos anytime. These are courts then which cannot have the objectivity to rule on what is right and just. Is that what we want to restore?
People dream of economic prosperity. But we are not dogs who would be happy to be well fed but without freedom.
Lord Acton said that power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. And that is what the Marcos dictatorship was, where all governmental powers were in the hands of one man. Is that what we want. Under the Marcos dictatorship, there was no press freedom. This freedom in the internet would not even be possible. Is that what we want? I agree with you and condemn the subsequent administrations which continued to serve the interest of the elite. But most certainly, I do not agree that the Marcos dictatorship is better than a government where there is a separation of powers, where each branch of government can check the abuse of the other.
People were arrested for opposing the dictatorship and have stayed in detention for years without being charged at all. Is this what we want? We remain slaves of an unjust and exploitative system after Marcos. That does not mean that we have to restore a rotten system which we have already toppled.
We have courts before which do not have independence as the tenure of judges was dependent on the whims and caprices of Marcos, who can be removed by Marcos anytime. These are courts then which cannot have the objectivity to rule on what is right and just. Is that what we want to restore?
People dream of economic prosperity. But we are not dogs who would be happy to be well fed but without freedom.
You are like the
Israelites who experiencing the hardships in the desert on the way to the
promise land, want to go back to their life of slavery in Egypt which they have
already freed themselves from. The hardships in the desert on the way to the
promise land, does not justify us going back to the slavery of Egypt that we
have already freed ourselves from.
