Distorting history at will

Much has been said about the televised cozy chat between the ousted dictator’s son and namesake Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile on the eve of the 46th anniversary of Martial Law. It was a ploy to rewrite history to sooth the ears of the Marcos heirs and the millennials, whom they think are clueless, and are thus sympathetic to their plight.

So who would be Bongbong’s preferred guest but the maestro himself, Enrile, who orchestrated Proclamation 1081 starting with his own claim of an assassination plot against him.

Whichever way one looks at the interview, however, it was a dud because no matter how much Enrile distorted events at will to please the interviewer, the dark years of the Marcos regime has been etched in stone and is firmly established in the annals of Philippine history.

Perhaps Marcos, the interviewer, succeeded in having Enrile spill the beans the way he wanted to hear it but no one can deny that it was all staged.

We are fortunate that to this day we still have in our midst victims and patriots in their own rights whose lucidity can’t yet be questioned like former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel Jr., former senator Rene Saguisag and former senator Heherson Alvarez, among others, who had the courage to denounce the untruthful utterances of Enrile.--Jesus Sievert