Tyrant Marcos hailed as ‘defender’ of democracy

I don’t know if this is historical revisionism by the army or if the guy tasked with producing the posters was simply a moron. But this poster hangs outside the army base along a busy road leading to The Fort and to the airport, for all the public to see, a few days before the commemoration of Marcos’s declaration of martial law on Sept. 21.

It is offensive. It dishonors not only the other men in those posters who genuinely defended this country but the whole Filipino nation as well who suffered under Marcos’s tyranny.

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