Marcos regime dated back to the martial law era of the 1970 that spans from 20 year rule saw the suppression of the most fundamental basic freedom rights and is a very painful touch to our history. Let us not forget that during those periods of oppression our country was in the brink of economic and political chaos while his family, political allies, and close associates enjoy enormous privileges of the elite that have access to government resources while our countrymen is on the suffering ends.
For the record there is no validity that Marcos becomes a war hero during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s. Assuming that he is a war hero and history was altered, either he died during the course of war or before his authoritarian rule, it is correct to give him the honor of hero’s burial. On the contrast his being war hero that he long sought was a reversal of his own tyranny.
Ferdinand Marcos a man of great intellect chose the path of tyrant than a path to serve the greater good. A hero cannot be made a tyrant nor can a tyrant be made to a hero. Put this simply a hero and tyrant are not compatible. Therefore Marcos is not a hero. To bury him in the “Libingan ng mga Bayani” is to bequeath a tyrant with the highest honor and tantamount to dispersed in history those true heroes who fought and died true to our country. To make Marcos a Hero is politically incorrect. A hero is someone that feels human, sacrifice, and a victim; should not be confused with tyrant. In truth Marcos neither feels human, did not sacrifice, nor the victim.
