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Being gunned down does not make one a hero. Ninoy Aquino is not a hero.

Posted on August 6, 2019 By ilda 1 Comment on Being gunned down does not make one a hero. Ninoy Aquino is not a hero.
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Aquino supporters are still insisting Ninoy was a hero. No, he was not. A lot of politicians all over the world get gunned down by political rivals. The most famous one was John F Kennedy. The Americans did not make him a hero after his assassination.

The trouble begins when people like former Congressman Teddy Casino presumes to prescribe a preferred line of thinking and put it up as some sort of gospel truth that is not open to challenge…

Everybody dies. But it takes a special person and a special death to rouse a nation against a fascist dictator. And that is why Ninoy Aquino is a hero. https://t.co/d9G5Ivq6HR

— Teddy Casiño (@teddycasino) August 5, 2019

The fact is, it was the coup d’état organised by then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and then General Fidel Ramos that triggered the protest rally, not Ninoy’s death. If the US government at the time didn’t whisk deposeed President Ferdinand Marcos out of the country and had Marcos used military fire power against the plotters, Cory wouldn’t have been illegitimately installed as President.

Protest rallies were a dime a dozen even before Ninoy died. A former member of the communist movement even claimed Ninoy organised the rallies and provided grenades. The Aquinos and their communist allies use rallies today to the point where these have lost any power to move the public.

Ninoy, for his part, was overrated. His speeches are not even great — which means beyond his “martyrdom” he didn’t leave much of a political legacy nor any significant contribution to thought leadership. Filipinos need to think twice about what they’ve been fed by a small clique of oligarchs over the last 30 years. If they examine the historical record carefully, they will find that it was all just a narrative designed to seal a status quo that served the members of a small but powerful oligarchic clan.

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Comment (1) on “Being gunned down does not make one a hero. Ninoy Aquino is not a hero.”

  1. angelito_orito says:
    December 20, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Of course he is not a hero… how can you make a person a hero if what he did in his entire life was all against the government….ninoy aquino was an NPA and nothing he did good to our country when l was alive … l don’t remember any !!!

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