Just another proof what kind of a STUPID PRESIDENT WE HAD
after Marcos. She lead our country with HATRED AND VENGEANCE in her heart, much
like what her son is now advocating.
From the lips of a dying President
By Salvador H. Laurel
Former Vice President of the Philippines
Chairman, National Centennial Commission
Manila Bulletin
Tues., Oct. 21, 1997
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and the House Committee on
Good Government are now conducting separate investigations on “Operation Big
Bird,” a cloak and dagger operation undertaken eleven years ago to bring back
the alleged “hidden wealth” of Ferdinand Marcos. The investigations were called
in response to President Ramos’ request for specific congressional authority to
settle the Marcos issue once and for all.
Mr. Ramos was quick to add that the hidden wealth issue
could have been resolved earlier by the Cory administration.
I can attest to that. Weak and already on his deathbed when
I visited him in Hawaii on February 3, 1989, Marcos personally asked me to convey
to Cory Aquino his offer to give up 90% of his earthly possessions to the
Filipino people, through a Foundation which he had set up, but Cory only would
allow him to die in his own country and be buried beside his mother.
I related this incident in a book “Neither Trumpets Nor
Drums,” published in 1992 right after I ended my term as Vice President of the
Philippines.
Pertinent portions that book I now quote for the benefit of
those who have not read it.
“One of the most unforgettable trips I took as Vice
President was my visit to Honolulu on February 3 and 4 1989.
“On February 2nd, at about 5 p.m., I received an urgent call
from Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos in Honolulu. She was sobbing on the phone. “
Doy, pwede ka bang maka-punta rito? Masama na ang tayo ni Ferdinand. Gusto kang
kausapin. Baka hindi na siya magtagal Please, please come,’ she pleaded.
“I’ll have to cancel my appointments. Maybe I can go in few
days?” I asked.
“She interrupted me, ‘Baka hindi mo na siya abutin. Please
come as soon as possible!”
“I thought about it. The cases filed against the Marcoses
had been pending for three years, yet nothing had happened. And the nation
remained fragmented. Perhaps, if I tried the Lincolnian approach – ‘With malice
toward none, with charity for all’ – we might be able to settle the issue and
unite the nation.
“Then I remembered Imelda’s plea: ‘Gusto kang kausapin.’
Maybe there is a chance – maybe he is ready to settle?
“She first briefed me about President Marcos’ condition –
that he was very weak. The doctors who were attending to him told me he had a
less than 50 percent chance of surviving, that he might not even last three
months.
“Then they took me to the Intensive Care Unit.
“I could not recognize Ferdinand Marcos when I saw him. The
Marcos I knew was athletic, active, and articulate. The man I saw was skin and
bones. About eighty-five pounds. Imelda announced cheerfully: ‘Andy, Andy,
narito na ang Batangueño, narito na si Doy.’
“His eyes opened. He recognized me. He tried to talk. But
only his lips moved. There was no sound.
“He signaled the nurse to remove the tube imbedded in his
throat.
“The Nurse pulled out the long tube and asked me to bend
closer so I could hear. Finally I heard his voice, very faint, almost a
whisper. “Salamat, brod, nakarating ka. I have something to tell you.’
“I interrupted him: ‘Before you start, Mr. President, may I
ask just one question?
“He nodded.
“Why did you call me, Mr. President? Why me of all people? I
vehemently oppose you. I was probably one of those responsible for your ouster
Why Me?’
“He signaled me to stop.
“Say no more, brod,’ he said. ‘I never held that against
you. You did what you had to do as leader of the opposition for many years. You
opposed me on principle, never on personality. You were against martial law but
you were noble about it, unlike some people. Besides, I cannot forget your
father. I owe him my life, not once but thrice. Let me talk now. I have very
little time.’
*** “Please tell Mrs. Aquino to stop sending me her
relatives. They are proposing and asking so many things. All I want is to die
in my country…I will run over 90 percent of all my worldly possessions to our
conversation to our people. I ask only 10 percent for my family.’
“Just let me die in my own country. I want to be buried
beside my mother.’
“His breathing had become more labored. The nurse stopped
our conversation. ‘He has to rest not,’ she said.
“Before leaving I told him: ‘Mr. President, I do now know if
Mrs. Aquino will listen to me, but I will try.’
“I hurried back to Manila to transmit Marcos’ message to
President Aquino. I asked for an appointment but Cory would not see me. Here I
was, her own Vice-President, asking only for three minutes of her time to
convey an important message from her predecessor, and she would not see me. I
was told by her Executive Secretary (Catalino Macaraig) she was busy. I learned
later that she had allocated an hour to Tom Cruise, an American movie star.
“In view of her repeated refusal to see me and hear what I
had to say, I wrote her a letter dated February 5, 1989: “Since my arrival
yesterday, I have been trying to get an appointment with you…
*** “I hope you will find time to listen to the highly
confidential message of Mr. Marcos considering its serious import and far-
reaching consequences upon your administration and the nation as a whole.”
The next day, Cory replied:
“As to the highly confidential message from former President
Ferdinand E. Marcos, I feel that in the light of your representation of its
‘serious import and far-reaching consequences upon your (my) administration and
the nation as a whole,’ such message should be disclosed to the public rather
than kept confidential. This is in accordance with my announced policy of
utmost transparency in the management of the affairs of the country.”
On the same day I wrote back: “ I am still hoping that you
will change your mind and receive the message in a private, non-political,
direct, and unfiltered manner, beyond any personal and partisan consideration.
“As to your published suggestion that I share with the
public the highly confidential information, I am afraid I am not yet at liberty
to do so considering that the message was entrusted to me in confidence to be
delivered to you personally. Only you and former President Marcos can
declassify or disclose this message.
“Let us give national reconciliation and national stability
every chance to succeed for the sake of our fragmented people..” (Neither
Trumpets Nor Drums, at pp 104-111, 1986 ed, Second printing)
I never received any further reply from Cory.
Cory’s refusal to receive Marcos’ message was perhaps her
biggest mistake. Had she studied it carefully, she could have settled the
Marcos wealth issue eight years ago. Perhaps we could have paid off our foreign
debt!
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Read and learn how the saint, Cory, absolutely assumed power
and how "saintly" she conducted her presidential powers.
(culled from a Palace-insider blogger during Cory's time)
(1) Thus did Madam Corazon Cojuangco Aquino Cory become
president by default since according to the US government, Enrile and Ramos,
leaders of the putsch cannot become RP’s national leaders, without courting
charges of unconstitutional accession to power.
Supposedly, the excesses of the Marcos minions who went
wayward and no longer wanted to toe the line of ideology of the New Society:
Revolution from the Center, written by Blas F. Ople, Adrian Cristobal, Jose
Crisol, then Capt. or Maj. Jose T. Almonte, and many other brainthrusts of
Marcos, were to be cured and addressed during the new revolutionary government
under the aegis of Enrile, Ramos, Cory and her Vice President, Salvador Laurel.
(2) Cory with her dyslexia, her hungry hangers-on, her
rapacious relatives and “classmates” in her frequent mahjong sessions all over
town, or in her own house in Times St., or even now in plush settings after
becoming president, drove Enrile, Ramos and Laurel away almost with a single
sweep of her hand.
She proceeded to undertake the sale of the country’s
patrimony, starting with the sale of Fort Bonifacio, to the private sector at
the promise of a windfall of skim money for her and her close ones. The sale of
many other portions of the country little by little was also made by the Cory
regime.
She signed with Swiss authorities the transfer of the Marcos
wealth to the Philippines but inserted riders that she herself, her family and
her quislings will get fat commissions from the Marcos so-called “stolen,
hidden gold.” Madre di Dios!!!
(3) She allowed the destruction of records of millions of
chinese nationals opening the country to a literal silent invasion of illegals
from China who are now occupying stalls in fast-rising buildings as sellers of
dirt cheap items and posh subdivision houses manufacturing shabu. Many or most
of them have even mastered some Tagalog words coming from their Filipina wife
or set of wives or their own handlers in the country that take care of their
billeting and the learning of a few functional terms in Filipino dialects. When
they make it big, they transfer to the exclusive villages scattered all over
Metro Manila.
Certainly, China is not only Cory’s clientele. Many
nationals from other countries benefited from her regime, thanks to the close connections
her so-called allies in the vaunted National Union of Christian Democrats
(NUCD) had with the European mafia that opened the floodgates for European
criminals to launder their money in the Philippines during the Aquino
presidency or else ply their illegal / criminal trade in or through the
country.
(4) In the time of Cory up to the time of Erap, drug
trafficking syndicates started to flood the country with dangerous drugs,
beginning with transshipment by the LIM clan that according to a government
informant, was using the front of a shipping company or group of companies,
that later became share holders of the defunct URBAN BANK -- now renamed to
Import and Export Bank.
Not surprisingly, Sergio “Serge” Osmeña and possibly the
other Osmeñas are joining the campaign for the son of Cory.
Serge and son, are one of the protectors of local lords of
transnational drug trafficking syndicates in the country.
One of Serge’s wards is now in prison but continues to ply
his illegal trade with the able runner capabilities of Serge’s son and girl
friend, a high society party goer and all time punk girl. You see them trek to
their base of operations in the heart of Makati City, just behind the RCBC
Plaza, the bailiwick of the Yellow Army commanded by its Lord Mayor, Jesus Jose
Maria! Cabauatan Binay popularly known as Jejomar or Jojo, also very, very big
in protecting drug trafficking syndicates providing illicit services to the
rich in the exclusive enclaves of Makati and the poor in the decrepit areas of
his Lordship.
(5) Noynoy
Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Cojuangco Aquino III who also fondly
known as Noy, the only male child of Sen. Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Ninoy and Cory
some say, is not really all that “well.”
According to the irritated group of the deposed president
Joseph Estrada (terribly annoyed because possibly the late FPJ’s supporter
Linggoy Alcuaz and his companions in the FPJ movement will now support Noynoy
and leave Erap behind), aspirant future President of the Republic of the
Philippines Noynoy Aquino was born an autistic child. If this is indeed true,
Noynoy must probably have been treated as a special child in his youth by
doctors expert in autism. Noynoy, as those in the same age bracket with him in
the late 40s and 50s, was observed to be one of the least exposed children of
the couple Ninoy and Cory.
(6) (We asked the Erap boys and girls why they say that
Noynoy is an autistic. They could not provide proof but in their faces, you
could see they were mightily convinced Noynoy is a mongoloid. “It’s in the
family, they say.” Is it really true? Who knows, it might just be.)
The son of Ma. Kristine Bernadette “Kris” Cojuangco Aquino
with motion pictures actor Phillip Salvador, Joshua fondly known as “Josh,” is
a mongoloid or special child and he possibly has the same genes of Noynoy. As
the Erap boys and girls are saying.
The mother of Noynoy and Josh’ grandmother, the late Cory,
on the other hand, actually was diagnosed and was being treated for a
non-contaminable but highly dangerous disease called dyslexia. Cory would
suffer bouts of mental paralysis due to the collapse of one or both of her
lungs causing the ill stricken subject to lose control while involuntarily able
to make extremity motions (hand, feet, minor ear, eye, nose movements, etc.
