Marcos clan publish 'bright' side of dictator's life

[emad]

Source: guardian

Teresa Cerojano and Associated Press in Manila
Monday July 9, 2007
The Guardian


The family of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has launched seven books that aim to give a kinder view of his 20 years in power, including former aides' accounts of his years in office.

The books and the Marcos Presidential Centre within the national library were launched on July 7 2007, because Marcos considered seven a lucky number, his family said.

"It is time that we respect what was past and what was part of our story, and it is time indeed that all these stories be told ... as many times as they need to be told until they are heard," said Marcos's eldest daughter, Imee.

Alluding to the many unfavourable accounts of her father's year's in office, she said it was important "that history write both sides of the story, or better yet, write all sides of the story".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2121700,00.html

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Maybe they cal illustrate it with something like:

[Ian_rd]

1. This sounds familiar

Hmmmm ...Remember this?

The New York Daily News reports, “President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign — an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.”

Bush is attempting to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Bush fund-raisers hope to get approximately $250 million from what they call “megadonations” of $10 million to $20 million each. Among the candidates for “megadonations,” whose names will remain anonymous:

Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry as potential “mega” donors and are pressing for a formal site announcement - now expected early in the new year.

Bush allies feel they need enormous funds to shape how history views Bush’s legacy. A Bush insider said, “The more you have, the more influence you can exert.” Much of the money will be used to build a “legacy-polishing” institute:

The legacy-polishing centerpiece is an institute, which several Bush insiders called the Institute for Democracy. Patterned after Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Bush’s institute will hire conservative scholars and “give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President’s policies,” one Bush insider said.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/27/bush-library|Full Story>

[Turbineguy]

7. I'm gonna have to take a whole new view of

vandalism.

[sutz12]

10. I wonder what they will fill that tank with?

:evilgrin:

[insanad]

12. The Gee Duh-bya Prezudenchul Lie-Bury

Something I've been ruminating in my head is the series of lies and cover ups that have defined this Bush Administration. From the very start, even before he was elected his employment, military, and other factors in the supposed "making of" this cretin have been uncovered as a series of lies.

If I were so inclined I suppose I could do a tree chart of the lies that led to other lies, and so on. What I'd love to see is a parody of this done on the net that is designed in the form of the "Prezudenchul Lie-Bury", where as one enters they are assaulted with various little bats and gnats of his famous verbal blunders and on the floors and walls are piles of rubbish, with vermin and other stinking trash oozing out. As one clicks on these piles they are led to a tree chart style list or clips that track the lies from start to present and how they involve much more than just the initial lie.

The Lie-Bury could have infectious rodents and vile vermin scurrying around behind and through things with the faces of Carl Rove, Dick Cheney, and other contributors menacing around. There could be a children's section with a Dick Cheney Puppet Show, where he's making several of the Bush Admin. puppets do his bidding. The Gee Duh-bya puppet could be a monkey clapping cymbals or something, or one of those inane paper puppets that just moves the lower jaw up and down. There could be a Punch and Judy show with Fox TV commentators getting into fights all the time, screeching in falsetto voices and smacking each other with plastic axes.

Condy Rice could be the tour guide working furiously to try to steer the visitors away from the more damning stuff but in the end, just looking like a stool pigeon. At the end of the maze could be a gift & snack shop where you could buy various lies to wear or eat, and some alkaseltzer to go with them or a wet-nap to clean oneself with after the experience. The entire structure could be made to look like a house of cards and when one selects a card, the whole thing comes crumbling down.


Well, that's my idea. I'd love to see some of the more creative and skilled pod people on the net run with it and add to it. I'm sure it would be very entertaining and informative, in a sad and heart sickening way. Since you seem to have this blog stuff down so well I thought I'd toss the idea to you to get out to others. I'll look forward to seeing it on the net. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by a long shot but I do think there is much more under the covers that will be revealed eventually. The cost to the nation can probably never be measured.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. Write something nice about buhs! Make money!

Ummmmm, okay. How about this: "Former president George Walker Buhs seldom picked his nose and ate it in public. When he did, he usually chewed with his mouth closed."

That'll be $10 please.

[NV Whino]

2. Wow!

I bet there's an entire book on shoes. I bet Condi rushes right out to buy it.

[dbackjon]

3. Why did Monty Python just come to mind...

[mbperrin]

4. When will the brighter side of Stalin be published?

nt

[otherlander]

11. I'm sure the USSR published a few of those too, back in the day.

:puke:

[UTUSN]

5. The Shrub twins & Jeb Crow Shrub's kids ought to pay attention how to do it!!1 n/t

[Javaman]

6. I heard the victums of Pol Pot are giving him a second look as well, wait they can't they'er dead nt

[Turbineguy]

8. Let me guess...

authors were paid from as yet unearthed Swiss bank accounts.

[Phrogman]

9. As an expat American living in the Philippines for many moons....

The ONLY good thing that Marcos did was not to order the AFP to fire on the crowd at Malacanang during the People Power general strike and revolt.
He ripped the country off blind and concreted cronyism and corruption in Philippine public service. I don't know if this country will ever recover from the Marcos family's greed. They're doing much better, but you see signs of it all the time.
But he wouldn't order the military to fire on his own people when the gig was up.
And for that Fred gets honorable mention.

[insanad]

13. How many orphans can be fed for a year from the sale of Imelda's shoe collection

I met a woman several years back that had been to a museum of some sort in the Philippines devoted to the riches of the Marcos's. Rather than gain tourist dollars from viewing these atrocities, why not sell the diamonds and jewels from these shoes and clothes and feed the thousands of orphans of the Philippines?

I'm always amazed that the countries that embrace zealous religion most fervently are the easiest to manipulate and oppress. Philippines, Mexico and much of S. America, most of the Middle East, Utah, they all seem to be filled with people willing to give up every ounce of common sense and personal thought to the "Great Leader". Of course many get caught in the web and are executed or expelled if they dare to speak out or think for themselves, but history seems to only remember the leaders and not the skeletons used to build the tower they perch on.

It doesn't surprise me that there are those that romanticize the past, even for one as heinous as Ferdinand Marcos. There's still Nazi skinheads and supporters marching in Germany and other places. I suspect there will always be a portion of the stupid, the bigoted, the racist, the underemployed and uncreative that want some iconic dictator to come to power so they won't have to think for themselves, be responsible for their own actions, or create their own future. There's still ditto heads and even if Rush Limbaugh blows up in some Hindenburg style explosion under the pressure of his own hot noxious gasses, there'll be some other blowhard to take his place and play puppet master with the fools who line up to be manipulated.