Things you need to know before idolizing marcos

**Ry_Tower** · June 30th, 2014 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by shadow

Mga fanatic. Put money where your mouth is. Meron na offer si ry. Para matapos na

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Wala eh, ayaw. Gusto bigyan ko muna ticket or i-deposit ko sa bank. Aba eh papano kung hindi sumipot.

Ngayon gusto details o daw para siya na lang pupunta. Abay gaya-gaya naman ngayon. Officially troll na yan. Grabe magmura sa PM.

Mga mods puwede ba i-ban kapag sobrang foul magsalita sa PM? Below the belt eh, layo sa pinag-uusapan.

**funkeemunkee** · June 30th, 2014 12:04 PM

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**ClaNker** · June 30th, 2014 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Ry_Tower

Wala eh, ayaw. Gusto bigyan ko muna ticket or i-deposit ko sa bank. Aba eh papano kung hindi sumipot.

Ngayon gusto details o daw para siya na lang pupunta. Abay gaya-gaya naman ngayon. Officially troll na yan. Grabe magmura sa PM.

Mga mods puwede ba i-ban kapag sobrang foul magsalita sa PM? Below the belt eh, layo sa pinag-uusapan.

Sabi sa inyo troll yan eh.

Report mo sa mod ang mga foul PM nya para ma reprimand, then ban na yang troll if he persisted.

**_Cathy_** · June 30th, 2014 01:51 PM

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**ZENMasterTYL** · June 30th, 2014 02:08 PM

may nagpapakalat sa fb

**Monseratto** · June 30th, 2014 02:16 PM

Basta nakatayo ng mga tulay at kalye na may kasamang kickback, even if it meant leaving the country bankrupt and borrownig from the IMF and WB.... at napahimik ang opposisyon in the name of peace and order.

Reposting from ASIAN JOURNAL:

Chronology of the Marcos Plunder

September 1976, the Marcoses bought their first property in the U.S. - a condo in the exclusive Olympic Towers on Fifth Avenue in New York . Five months later they would also buy the three adjoining apartments, paying a total of $4,000,000.00 for the four and using Antonio Floirendo’s company, The Aventures Limited in Hong Kong, as front for these purchases.

October 13, 1977. Today, after addressing the UN General Assembly, Imelda celebrated by going shopping and spending $384,000 including $50,000 for a platinum bracelet with rubies; $50,000 for a diamond bracelet; and $58,000 for a pin set with diamonds.

The day before, Vilma Bautista, one of her private secretaries, paid $18,500 for a gold pendant with diamonds and emeralds; $9,450 for a gold ring with diamonds and emeralds; and $4,800 for a gold and diamond necklace.

October 27, 1977

The Marcoses donated $1.5 million to Tufts University in Boston, endowing a professorial chair in East Asian and Pacific Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The students and professors discovered this and forced the school to reject the donation. To save face, the Marcoses were allowed to finance several seminars and lectures.

November 2, 1977. Still at her shopping spree, Imelda paid $450,000 for a gold necklace and bracelet with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds; $300,000 for a gold ring with emeralds and diamonds; and $300,000 for a gold pendant with diamonds, rubies, and thirty-nine emeralds.

July 1978. After a trip to Russia, Imelda arrived in New York and immediately warmed up for a shopping spree. She started with paying $193,320 for antiques, including $12,000 for a Ming Period side table; $24,000 for a pair of Georgian mahogany Gainsborough armchairs; $6,240 for a Sheraton double-sided writing desk; $11,600 for a George II wood side table with marble top - all in the name of the Philippine consulate to dodge New York sales tax.

That was merely for starters.

A week later she spent $2,181,000.00 in one day! This included $1,150,000 for a platinum and emerald bracelet with diamonds from Bulgari; $330,000 for a necklace with a ruby, diamonds, and emeralds; $300,000 for a ring with heart-shaped emeralds; $78,000 for 18-carat gold ear clips with diamonds; $300,000 for a pendant with canary diamonds, rubies and emeralds on a gold chain.

After New York, she dropped by Hong Kong where a Cartier representative admitted it was this Filipina, Imelda, who had put together the world’s largest collection of gems - in 1978.

May 1979 The Marcos couple celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in a party that cost $5,000,000.00 There was a silver carriage drawn by eight white horses.

November 23, 1978 A house was purchased at 4 Capshire Drive in Cherry Hill , New Jersey (actually near to Philadelphia where Bongbong was taking courses at that time) for use by servants and Bongbong’s security detachment. The Marcoses did not neglect their annual real estate purchase. During this year and next year, 1979, they purchased two properties - one at 3850 Princeton Pike, Princeton - a 13-acre estate for use by daughter Imee as she attended Princeton.

The other was a house at 19 Pendleton Drive in Cherry Hill for use of Bongbong and under the name of Tristan Beplat,
erstwhile head of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines .

April 1979 in two days in New York this month, Imelda spent $280,000 for a necklace wet with emeralds and diamonds; $18,500 for a yellow gold evening bag with one round cut diamond; $8,975.20 for 20-carat gold ear clips with
twenty-four baguette diamonds; $8,438.10 for 18-carat gold ear clips with fifty-two tapered baguette diamonds; and $12,056.50 for 20 carat gold ear clips with diamonds.

June 1980. For $1,577,000.00 in New York Imelda buys Webster Hotel on West 45th Street . She rewards Gen. Romeo Gatan as a limited partner. Gatan arrested Ninoy at the beginning of Martial Law.

The insurgents’ ranks grew by twenty percent a year. . Meritorious officers in the armed forces experienced low moral due to Marcos’ penchant for promoting friends over more deserving officers.

February 16, 1986. In Fe’s records of monies paid out during Marcos’ last campaign, one unusually large item was authorized by “FL” (First Lady) and paid to Assemblyman Arturo Pacificador on this day. A few days later, two carloads
of men drove into San Jose , the provincial capital of Antique.

Evelio Javier, head of Aquino’s campaign, was watching the votes being counted when the men opened fire and killed Evelio after he was still able to run through town but finally got cornered in a public toilet where he was gunned down in front of shocked townspeople. Pacificador was later convicted of the murder.

February 25, 1986. Marcos fled the Philippines leaving behind a foreign debt of $27 billion and a bureaucracy gone mad. “Cash advances” for the elections from the national treasury amounted to Php 3.12 billion ($150 million). The Central
Bank printed millions of peso bills, many with the same serial number. Sixty million pesos in newly printed bills were found in a vehicle owned by Imelda’s brother Bejo in the Port Area of Manila, and another Php 100 million aboard the MV Legaspi also owned by Bejo Romualdez.

How massive and humongous a loot Marcos took can be deduced from the known losses he left behind. The known losses he left at the Central Bank included $1.2 billion in missing reserves and $6 billion in the Special Accounts.

**zoomzoom** · June 30th, 2014 02:17 PM

Ferdinand Marcos Is Not A Hero - News - Bubblews

Ferdinand Marcos Is Not A Hero

Submitted by Malaya on September 02nd, 2013 –

Category: Politics

While surfing around Facebook today, I happened upon a topic where people were praising late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. They said that he was the greatest president that the Philippines has ever had and that we would not be in our sorry state today if he had remained in power.

First of all, yes, Marcos did a lot of good for the country during his times such as providing the country with:
- Food sufficiency
- Education, agrarian, labor, political, and fiscal reform
- Primary health
- Housing
- Energy self reliance
- Export development

However, just because a person did some good in his life does not mean that the atrocities that he committed can be excused. It was noted by historian Alfred McCoy that during the Marcos regime, about 35,000 individuals were tortured, 3,257 were killed, and 70,000 were jailed. And how about the billions that he stole? When he started his term, the country had a debt that was below 1 billion dollars, but after his two decades reign, the debt was more than 28 billion dollars, with a lot of the money going into his own pockets. Don't take my word for it, just ask the people who experienced the brutality under Marcos' regime.

27 years have passed since the fall of Marcos. Sadly, the people seem to have forgotten how much we have lost, the blood that was shed in order to defeat a brutal dictator. Marcos did a lot of good, but we should never forget the evil that he did.

Never trade your freedom for your safety and comfort because you will be left with nothing

**[archie]** · June 30th, 2014 02:41 PM

Anong gdp yan... Not counted yan.

Dapat world economic figures.

Dismiss yang local gdp.

**ClaNker** · June 30th, 2014 02:55 PM

Grabe yung data o! Ouch ouch ouccchhh.

**TopEngine** · June 30th, 2014 03:22 PM

yan naman pala, sa dinami daming mga ganitong articles pala noon bakit hindi man lang napatawan ng guilty itong mga Marcoses sa korte? hindi ba pwedeng gamitin na lang mga ito na ebidensiya? mukhang mahina mga prosecution o anti-Marcos noon ah, tsk.