"Being an activist means being aware of what's happening around you as well as being in touch with your feelings about it -- your rage, your sadness, your excitement, your curiosity, your feeling of helplessness, and your refusal to surrender."
Batas Militar or Martial Law is about one of the worse events in the Philippine History, if not even the WORST.
I won’t have watched this documentary film if it wasn’t showed in class, I won’t have been sitting in here in pursuit of coming up with a reaction paper if it wasn’t required. Most students of my age would not be curious to watch the particular film since it is so passed our time and many would just say that it belongs to the past, only written in chronicles and is not something that we should fuss about anymore.
However, after having been able to watch some parts of the documentary in class and after having been obliged to watch it in Youtube, I realized that to say that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s administration is worse than Marcos’s is totally incorrect.
Marcos, as what I’ve also found out in the film, was extremely intelligent. He took the Bar and topped it while still in prison after having been found guilty of assassinating his father’s political opponent. Furthermore, during his time as Philippine President, the country’s economy rose too. These are just two of the many proofs of his intellectual capacity.
But, think of the killings, those who were tortured, and those who had vanished instantly after taking their stand against Marcos’s tyranny. Think about them and weigh if all the roads, bridges and other infrastructures that Ferdinand Marcos had built are worth the lives of those who had bravely risked and lost their lives in fighting this dictator.
To end this and to give a clearer reaction, Ferdinand Marcos may have been brilliant, he may have done so many great things but every time people would remember his greatness, they will also reminisce all the havoc that accompanied his greatness.
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