JUST ANOTHER DAY

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BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
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Get a life, fools!

SO FORMER President Marcos was finally buried noontime on Friday, Nov. 18 at the Libingan ng mga Bayani without much fanfare. There was no announcement or media coverage. It was a soldier’s burial befitting a former president attended only by family and close friends.

It was precisely what the Marcos family intended – a private moment to finally pay their respects to their father who just happened to be a former president and soldier.

Of course, when the anti-Marcos rabble learned of this – which was too late for them to actually do anything – they all went berserk. Their erotic dreams of holding a rally blocking the funeral of Marcos in front of all the television cameras of ABS-CBN and GMA TV, including the reporters of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star and Rappler, suddenly fizzled.

It was supposed to be their defining moment at the barricades. After all the posturing and stories, Risa Hontiveros will finally fulfill her fantasies of being a militant activist. She has been preparing for this to finally stand in front of the barricades holding a placard and screaming “Marcos is not a hero!” in front of the television cameras. But, alas it was not to be, she was not invited.

The Marcos funeral was also going to be the fulfillment of the nuns of St. Scholastica College to do a “Vilma Santos” and achieve orgasmic satisfaction reliving the role of “Sister Stella L.” Too bad for them, they were also not invited.

So what did the nuns do? They took it out on their 10-year-old students with a not so subtle intimidation. They had their students line up the streets in front of their schools with placards proclaiming that Marcos was not a hero. I seem to be confused here. Who said Marcos was a hero? Was there an official or unofficial proclamation of such? Burying someone at the Libingan ng mga Bayani does not automatically make one a hero because if it does, then all the wives of the generals buried there, including Cory Aquino’s dog, are heroes.

It seems to me that the only people saying Marcos is a hero are all the ones screaming he is not.

And what about Sen. Kiko Pangilinan who threatened to have the body of Marcos exhumed from his grave? According to “careless whispers” it seems Kiko had 10,000 black t-shirts printed with “Marcos is not a hero” which will be sold to rallyists at P250 during the rally to stop the burial of Marcos at the LNMB.

Well, we know now that the Marcos family outsmarted them all. Now Kiko is stuck with 10,000 t-shirts and he lost about P2.5 million, so yes he is fuming mad as Sharon Cuneta is also nagging him for losing a considerable amount of money.

The funny thing is that most of these people rabidly against Marcos’ burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani where not even born when martial law was declared or too young to even understand what it was all about. While those who have really experienced and fought Marcos and Martial Law are saying move on.

These people whose lives seem to be focused on Marcos are the so-called leftists who have become irrelevant and are riding this issue just to make themselves relevant. We also have the trendy, social climbers who do so because they think it’s fashionable. And then we have the has-beens and never-was that are using this issue to try to revive their acting or singing careers that were never there in the first place.

Over all, these people actually just hate President Rodrigo Duterte. It’s never about Marcos in the first place. They are just using this issue or any other issue to hit Duterte. All they want is to rock the boat in the hope that Duterte will fall as Vice President Lenie Robredo is tantalizingly giving them hope of a comeback.

Picture this out: if Bongbong Marcos were the vice president today, do you think the noisy minority would be making these noises? I don’t think so.

Get a life fools. Duterte will be here for six years./PN
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