NOY VIDEO POST ON EDSA REVOLUTION LIKED, BASHED
Former President Benigno Aquino III posted on Sunday a poignant video of the crucial events that led to the ouster of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos as his way of joining the nation in commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution.
With the instrumental version of “Bayan Ko” as background music, the grainy video of the events that transpired in the 1980s included a brief clip showing his father, opposition leader Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., about to disembark from the plane moments before he was assassinated.
The video ended with his father’s famous quote, “I have weighed all the virtues and faults of the Filipinos, and I have come to the conclusion that the Filipino is worth dying for.”
Angry protests
The murder of Ninoy precipitated the people’s angry protests, culminating in the bloodless revolution that forced Marcos and his family to abandon Malacañang. The people installed his widow, Cory, as the new President.
Accompanying the video was a paragraph from the former President’s Feb. 25, 2016 speech in Filipino commemorating the 30th anniversary of Edsa:
“Dictatorship has many faces; there are people who want to bring it back—and deprive us of the rule of law and put in one person’s hand the right to say what is right or wrong, who is innocent and who is not.”
Aquino’s Facebook page has one more Edsa post with another of his father’s famous quotes: “There is no greater nation on earth than our motherland. No greater people than our own. Serve them with all your heart, with all your might, and with all your strength.”
10,000 reactions
As of Monday afternoon, Aquino’s video post has generated 10,000 reactions, more than 8,000 of which were liked by Facebook users. Around 1,300 “laughed” at the post. With 227,000 views, the post had nearly 1,400 shares.
The post quoting his father had 11,000 likes, 1,200 hearts, 835 “laughs,” and 146 angry reactions.
Aquino was not at any public gathering commemorating Edsa. The head of the People Power Commission under the Office of the President was uncertain whether Aquino was invited to the commemoration organized by the government at the People Power Monument on Sunday morning.