Saturday, August 25, 2007

2 Top Tens for the Philippines

Oh Wait! Most corrupt Leaders list? I should have known. 2 Positive Top Tens for the Philippines seems a little too much to ask. Here a little story that came out from Philnews.com today.

It has been 21 years since that fateful day in February, 1986 when Ferdinand Marcos, preparing to flee Malacanang Palace, Marcos declaring Martial Law on September 21, 1972made a call to his former Defense Secretary, Juan Ponce Enrile to ask for "safe passage" for himself and his family, so they could safely leave the city for Clark Air Base in Pampanga.

What a difference two decades make! On July the seventh of this year (07/07/07), the Marcoses launched 7 books about the former dictator, and inaugurated the Marcos Presidential Center, in a desperate effort at rehabilitating his image with the public. If that wasn't enough, the Marcoses are now claiming that the late strongman was in fact the owner of many of the largest corporations in the Philippines. They assert that Ferdinand had temporarily "entrusted" his corporate holdings to friends and cronies. Now the family wants those holdings back.
Thats Philippine Politics in a nutshell! I label this post "OUTRAGEOUS"


2 comments:

Zentai said...

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balidreamhome said...

Hi,
Greetings from Bali, thanks for stopping by and leave your comment.

you have very nice blog to and nice articles..keep the good work buddy...cheers.. I am sure that suharto is the 1st...:-)