General History of the Philippines

We could recall that what was dubbed as the EDSA People Power Revolution (EDSA 1) was triggered by an extremely minuscule group that began agitating for that happening around midnight of February 21, 1986 at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and EDSA in Cubao, Quezon City.

Going back to that short but significant part of history that the liberals have always kept from us, let us all understand the beginnings of this monster and how it came about.

When the NASA probe Perseverance recently landed on Mars, it found a dense landscape no different from the hollowness of the views of the yellow mob led by Vice President Leni Robredo who keeps on insisting that democracy is threatened and that efforts to rewrite history continue.

In our history textbooks, it is recognized that the journalistic profession helped create the nation. We studied about how the Propaganda organ, La Solidaridad, not only advocated for reforming Filipino society under colonialism, but it also became the vehicle for cultural studies and debates that eventually defined the Filipino identity.

The three-year war, apart from its other effects, killed about 200,000 Filipinos. We only remember the so-called legacies of education and governance, which, although not small achievements for the Americans, also cast over our nation a culture of dependency that still affects us today.

While Dr. Jose Rizal is considered by some as a reformist, or someone who wanted to have changes in Spain's treatment of the Filipinos without necessarily fighting for independence, General Paciano Rizal is seen as more radical. He was a revolutionary through and through.

The mothballing of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was a criminal conspiracy by a foreign-installed government to financially defraud the government. It was a conspiracy committed by a government that claims to be holier-than-thou to financially discredit Marcos. Maybe we can say it was not the original plan of Marcos to put up a nuclear power plant but was suggested to him by the very people who will work to derail the project that culminated in his ouster from office.

At this time of year, the Communist Party, its cultural bases like the University of the Philippines (UP) and its fronts celebrate what made possible that party's rise, the so-called "First Quarter Storm" from January to March 1970 and on a much lesser scale, the "Diliman Commune" of February 1971. These two events convinced - or fooled - droves of idealistic youth that a Philippine revolution was at hand, and the Communist Party was its vanguard.

More than three decades after Ferdinand Marcos' rule ended in 1986, we still do not have an objective, fact- and document-based history of that crucial period of our history.