Cory Years Failure: Pardoning Certain Convicted Criminals As "Martial Law Victims"

I don't know what to believe in anymore after many years of deceit. I could remember studying Civics and Culture in my elementary years. The whole book was painted in Yellow where it wanted to make Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. look like he was always a villain and Aquinos are always the heroes. Just because the Marcos Years weren't the golden years doesn't mean that the Aquino years are the golden years of the Philippines, too.

First, we could talk about the Light a Fire Movement which involved Jim Paredes' mother Ester Paredes. The whole Light a Fire movement was not heroic. I don't see anything heroic about trying to set on fire certain sites because those could have hurt innocent people. Just because Marcos Sr. was a dictator doesn't justify what they did. He was inside the mall but that incident was still a crime. Those who were in the Light a Fire Movement hurt and killed people. I don't see any reason why they should be regarded as martial law victims. But they were foolishly pardoned which resulted to Jim licking the boots of the Dilawans.

This would start to beg the question to Jim. How can he talk about vigilante killings as "sponsored by President Duterte" while he defends his own mother's misdeed? This is pretty hypocritical to defend his mother for taking part in a terrorist movement while condemning vigilante killings as sponsored by the current administration? That's why I even want to imagine him attempting to launch his own version of the Light a Fire Movement.

The second is something I NEVER read for seven straight years in my Civics and Culture of the Philippines textbooks one year after the other. I've read of the Japanese occupation, the martial law anomalies BUT what about the Cory Years anomalies? None at all. It's almost like how Mao Zedong's failures were whitewashed for some time after they overthrew the corrupt administration prior to the Communist takeover. One of them would be the release of Tsinoy activist leader Jose Maria Sison or Joma Sison for short.

The whole problem was that by releasing these criminals they have brought a culture of impunity. Worse, establishing the Commission on Human Rights has become useless by setting free the members of Light a Fire and the New People's Army. CHR should be investigating all human rights violations and not those done just by state agents. That line of reasoning that CHR should just monitor state agents can easily be misused and abused. No, CHR should be reorganized to help monitor all human rights abuses and not just those done by state agents.