EDSA 1: 25 years later...

**TholitzReloaded** · February 25th, 2011 06:06 PM

Halos walang nagabago lugmok parin ang mga Filipino nagbago lang ang mga players pero ang mga audience ganun parin.

**JackFlash** · February 25th, 2011 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by foresterx

mas madami educated and honorable people back then compared to now. so i think mas dumami instead of madami parin. i tend to think that back then mas madami matitino na tao ngayon mas madami na mga engot kesa sa matino.

:bwahaha:

Korek. Here's exhibit A. Hindi lang engot, kapal-muks pa, as in look who's talking: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/2011022...o-d6cd5cf.html

Erap to Noynoy: Go all out against corruption

On the 25th anniversary of the EDSA People Power revolution, former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada on Friday urged President Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III to go all out against corruption. "I hope that the incumbent President, who believed in the spirit of the 1986 EDSA 1 People Power revolt, would fulfill his campaign promise of going all out against corruption not only in the military," Estrada told reporters.

Estrada issued the message to Aquino after attending the unveiling of the historical site marker at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) where former President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, the late mother of the incumbent President, delivered a speech during the 1986 People Power uprising.

The late President Ferdinand Marcos was ousted after EDSA 1, which put in power the late President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, the mother of the incumbent President.

On the other Estrada was ousted after EDSA 2 or the January 2001 EDSA People Power uprising, which placed former President Gloria Arroyo in power.

Estrada appealed to the people to give the incumbent president time to prove himself. “Let’s give him enough time dahil sa dami ng problemang iniwan nung nakaraang administrasyon, you cannot expect a miracle, he’s only barely 8 months [in office]," he said.

Icon of corruption?
Estrada also expressed hope that Aquino will correct "all the nine years of the Gloria [Arroyo] administration who corrupted all agencies of the government."

After six years in detention, Estrada was convicted of plunder in September 2007. A month later, then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned him.

Estrada even called Arroyo, now a Pampanga congresswoman, as an “icon of corruption" while hailing former President Cory as an “icon of democracy."

**foresterx** · February 25th, 2011 07:42 PM

dapat lahat ng dumalo ngayon sa EDSA batukan si erap kahit tag iisa lang kada tao.

**Monseratto** · February 25th, 2011 08:48 PM

At least di na siya makatakbo ng pagkapresidente. He'll be too old to run again...

**projector** · February 25th, 2011 09:06 PM

Too much democracy kaya bagsak ang pilipinas

**donbuggy** · February 25th, 2011 11:57 PM

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/col...ongbong-Marcos

The delusional Bongbong Marcos
By Benjamin Pimentel
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 17:29:00 02/24/2011

Let's start with perhaps the most amusing twist in this twisted claim.

Here’s Bongbong blaming the hundreds of thousands of us who rose up against the dictatorship for derailing Marcos’s supposedly grand scheme to turn the Philippines into an economic miracle like Singapore.

But the man who did turn Singapore into an economic powerhouse, Lee Kuan Yew, didn’t exactly have a flattering opinion of the Filipino dictator.

In his memoir published in 2000, Lee recalled how he once told former US Vice President Walter Mondale that Marcos “might have started off as a hero but ended up a crook.” Lee also dismissed Marcos as a “self-indulgent ageing ruler who allowed his wife and cronies to clean out the country through ingenious monopolies and put the government heavily in debt.”

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Marcos and his alleged ambition to become the Philippines’ economic miracle worker.

Bongbong’s jaw dropping argument becomes even more outlandish if you consider this: He is claiming that the Philippines would have become another Singapore, known to be among the least corrupt nations in the world, under a president who is considered one of the most corrupt leaders in world history!

**chua_riwap** · February 26th, 2011 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by kotiko

Saw news footages on the EDSA celebration.....

- Nat'l. anthem was played 2 times
- Ka Freddies's rendition of Bayan Kong Pilipinas is I think a bit OA

**agentrambo007** · February 26th, 2011 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by projector

Too much democracy kaya bagsak ang pilipinas

well democracy wont flourish in a country where investments are low. democracy and capitalism goes hand in hand where a strong work ethic of accountability and responsibility is a requirement. when the government finds a way to increase investments and businesses here (like liberalizing the economy), corruption will be lessened since people will have more options to improve his/her welfare and being. poverty or a lack of choice in our country drives people to be corrupt, kanya kanya attitude follows and we end up in chaos

I must say Edsa is a failure. It was just a change of men in power, not a revolution in the mindset of the people. It was just a power grab from the late strongman with his cronies to the oligarchs rallying under the banner of democracy.

we need a genuine revolution not this pathetic emo-driven EDSA "uprising"!

hay

**Monseratto** · February 26th, 2011 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by agentrambo007

well democracy wont flourish in a country where investments are low. democracy and capitalism goes hand in hand where a strong work ethic of accountability and responsibility is a requirement. when the government finds a way to increase investments and businesses here (like liberalizing the economy), corruption will be lessened since people will have more options to improve his/her welfare and being. poverty or a lack of choice in our country drives people to be corrupt, kanya kanya attitude follows and we end up in chaos

I must say Edsa is a failure. It was just a change of men in power, not a revolution in the mindset of the people. It was just a power grab from the late strongman with his cronies to the oligarchs rallying under the banner of democracy.

we need a genuine revolution not this pathetic emo-driven EDSA "uprising"!

hay

Yeah, a leftist-led revolution like Cambodia and Cuba...look where they are now. Even Nicaragua and El Salvador gave up their leftist ideas...