Aquino Cojuangco: Facts They Don't Want You To Know

[Yoda18]

https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/08/25/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/why-celebrate-the-death-of-a-false-hero/759166/

[camiar]

On 8/25/2020 at 9:58 PM, Yoda18 said:

https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/08/25/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/why-celebrate-the-death-of-a-false-hero/759166/

The full text:

Why celebrate the death of a false hero?

The Manila Times

By Ramon T. Tulfo  August 25, 2020

“YOU have to be ready with your hand cameras because action can become very fast. In a matter of three or four minutes, it could all be over, and I may not be able to talk to you again after this.”

Those were the words of former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. during an interview with Jim Laurie of ABC News in his room at the Grand Hotel in Taipei a day before he was to take the China Airlines jet that would whisk him to Manila for a rendezvous with immortality.

Ninoy Aquino has been canonized as a martyr with an annual commemoration of his assassination on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, the country’s premier airport that was renamed in his honor.

His widow, Cory, and son, Noynoy, were both elected president of the country.

Cory was president from 1986 to 1992 and Noynoy, from 2010 to 2016.

Quite a feat for Ninoy, who had the flair for the dramatic when he was still alive.

How Ninoy Aquino was able to predict his assassination is something for the books.

Why was Ninoy so sure that he was going to be assassinated?

Before he boarded the China Airlines plane in Taipei, the former senator said he might be “hit” at the Manila International Airport, and his assassin would be shot in turn.

Holding up a bullet-proof vest, Ninoy said, “But if they hit me in the head, I’m a goner.”

Rolando Galman, a hired gun from Tarlac, Ninoy’s home province, shot the former senator in the head with a .357 magnum revolver, according to the government investigation into the murder.

Galman, who was wearing the uniform of airport maintenance personnel, was in turn, shot many times by soldiers, who fetched the ex-senator from the plane.

Why did Ninoy know he was going to be shot in the head and that his assassin would be shot by his escorts?

As the plane was about to land, Ninoy handed his brother-in-law, Ken Kashiwahara, his watch.

When Kashiwahara asked, “Why are you doing this,” Ninoy replied, “I just want you to have it.”

Was the gesture a premonition, or did Ninoy have foreknowledge of what was about to happen?

Ninoy was very sick — he was allowed to go to the United States for coronary heart bypass surgery — and he probably knew he was dying; thus, there’s no telling if he could have stage-managed his death.

The former senator was a publicity-seeker, whose every word or action was the stuff of headlines.

What baffles many people until now is why Cory and Noynoy, with all the power at their fingertips, did not form a panel of investigators to determine who was behind the assassination.

The US government made an in-depth probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and a commission was formed to do that.

Air Force M/Sgt. Pablo Martinez, in an interview with this columnist at the New Bilibid Prisons, took full responsibility for the dastardly deed but said his fellow soldiers, who were convicted with him, were completely innocent.

Martinez said it was he and his superior, Col. Romeo Ochoco, deputy chief of the defunct Aviation Security Command (Avsecom), who knew about the plot.

Martinez told me he handed Galman the .357 magnum days before Ninoy was to arrive and had the gun test-fired on the trunk of a tree.

My interview with Martinez was published in my column at the Philippine Daily Inquirer during Noynoy’s presidency.

Why didn’t Noynoy take a cue from that Inquirer column item and form a panel of investigators like the US government did on the Kennedy assassination?

There could only be one reason: the Aquinos and Cojuangcos wanted to let sleeping dogs lie.

The probe would probably have opened Pandora’s box.

Ninoy was no saint as a public official, and his flair for drama was legend.

The former senator exposed a plot by the government in the 1960s to send a commando unit to Sabah to help residents, mostly Filipinos from Sulu, launch a revolt against the Malaysian government, which would have led to the return of Sabah to the Philippines.

If he had been a true patriot, Ninoy wouldn’t have exposed that secret plan as it was a national security issue.

Ninoy was reported to have brokered the formation of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) at his residence in Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.

He was absent when a grenade was thrown at a Liberal Party election rally in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo on Aug. 21, 1971 — is it a coincidence that that incident and his assassination 12 years later were of the same month and day? — that killed nine people and wounded scores of others, including his party mates.

Why was he absent at that election rally when his presence was important?

There were reports that he was forewarned by the NPA about the dastardly act and therefore, deliberately, did not attend the rally.

Or was Ninoy behind the Plaza Miranda bombing in order that it would be blamed on President Ferdinand Marcos in the same way his assassination would be blamed on Marcos?

Why do we celebrate yearly the assassination of a false hero?

 

[rayanami]

On 11/3/2021 at 9:00 PM, camiar said:

The full text:

Why celebrate the death of a false hero?

The Manila Times

By Ramon T. Tulfo  August 25, 2020

“YOU have to be ready with your hand cameras because action can become very fast. In a matter of three or four minutes, it could all be over, and I may not be able to talk to you again after this.”

Those were the words of former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. during an interview with Jim Laurie of ABC News in his room at the Grand Hotel in Taipei a day before he was to take the China Airlines jet that would whisk him to Manila for a rendezvous with immortality.

Ninoy Aquino has been canonized as a martyr with an annual commemoration of his assassination on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, the country’s premier airport that was renamed in his honor.

His widow, Cory, and son, Noynoy, were both elected president of the country.

Cory was president from 1986 to 1992 and Noynoy, from 2010 to 2016.

Quite a feat for Ninoy, who had the flair for the dramatic when he was still alive.

How Ninoy Aquino was able to predict his assassination is something for the books.

Why was Ninoy so sure that he was going to be assassinated?

Before he boarded the China Airlines plane in Taipei, the former senator said he might be “hit” at the Manila International Airport, and his assassin would be shot in turn.

Holding up a bullet-proof vest, Ninoy said, “But if they hit me in the head, I’m a goner.”

Rolando Galman, a hired gun from Tarlac, Ninoy’s home province, shot the former senator in the head with a .357 magnum revolver, according to the government investigation into the murder.

Galman, who was wearing the uniform of airport maintenance personnel, was in turn, shot many times by soldiers, who fetched the ex-senator from the plane.

Why did Ninoy know he was going to be shot in the head and that his assassin would be shot by his escorts?

As the plane was about to land, Ninoy handed his brother-in-law, Ken Kashiwahara, his watch.

When Kashiwahara asked, “Why are you doing this,” Ninoy replied, “I just want you to have it.”

Was the gesture a premonition, or did Ninoy have foreknowledge of what was about to happen?

Ninoy was very sick — he was allowed to go to the United States for coronary heart bypass surgery — and he probably knew he was dying; thus, there’s no telling if he could have stage-managed his death.

The former senator was a publicity-seeker, whose every word or action was the stuff of headlines.

What baffles many people until now is why Cory and Noynoy, with all the power at their fingertips, did not form a panel of investigators to determine who was behind the assassination.

The US government made an in-depth probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and a commission was formed to do that.

Air Force M/Sgt. Pablo Martinez, in an interview with this columnist at the New Bilibid Prisons, took full responsibility for the dastardly deed but said his fellow soldiers, who were convicted with him, were completely innocent.

Martinez said it was he and his superior, Col. Romeo Ochoco, deputy chief of the defunct Aviation Security Command (Avsecom), who knew about the plot.

Martinez told me he handed Galman the .357 magnum days before Ninoy was to arrive and had the gun test-fired on the trunk of a tree.

My interview with Martinez was published in my column at the Philippine Daily Inquirer during Noynoy’s presidency.

Why didn’t Noynoy take a cue from that Inquirer column item and form a panel of investigators like the US government did on the Kennedy assassination?

There could only be one reason: the Aquinos and Cojuangcos wanted to let sleeping dogs lie.

The probe would probably have opened Pandora’s box.

Ninoy was no saint as a public official, and his flair for drama was legend.

The former senator exposed a plot by the government in the 1960s to send a commando unit to Sabah to help residents, mostly Filipinos from Sulu, launch a revolt against the Malaysian government, which would have led to the return of Sabah to the Philippines.

If he had been a true patriot, Ninoy wouldn’t have exposed that secret plan as it was a national security issue.

Ninoy was reported to have brokered the formation of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) at his residence in Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.

He was absent when a grenade was thrown at a Liberal Party election rally in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo on Aug. 21, 1971 — is it a coincidence that that incident and his assassination 12 years later were of the same month and day? — that killed nine people and wounded scores of others, including his party mates.

Why was he absent at that election rally when his presence was important?

There were reports that he was forewarned by the NPA about the dastardly act and therefore, deliberately, did not attend the rally.

Or was Ninoy behind the Plaza Miranda bombing in order that it would be blamed on President Ferdinand Marcos in the same way his assassination would be blamed on Marcos?

Why do we celebrate yearly the assassination of a false hero?

 

Well

1. Ninoy's writings and death was instrumental to get the people to overthrow marcos, in the same way that Jose Rizal's, our national hero, writings and death were instrumental to get the people to overthrow the spaniards

2. Surely for anyone who supports the spaniards back then, Jose Rizal is also not a hero. Isn't that right Buencamino?

3. Also the expose was done because a survivor of the jabidah massacre came to ninoy for help, to bring justice to the dozens of jabidah muslims slaughtered.

4. The most illogical thing that Pro-marcoses has always branded ninoy is that Ninoy is both an evil haciendero and a communist. I guess if people can believe that DuterTAE is both rich and poor whichever is useful to their argument

5. Also the NPA hates the Aquinos so much since they were already at 20,000 men when Marcos was kicked out, And 6-7 years of Aquino and FVR reduced their numbers to 6,000

Unlike with Marcos, the darling of NPA, in 1969 the NPA were only 60 people. By 1987 they increased to 20,000

• 1969: 60 (Encyclopedia of the Developing World)[1]
• 1987: 25,200 (Armed Forces of the Philippines)[2]
• 1994: 6,000 (International Crisis Group)[3]
• 2009: 4,874 (Armed Forces of the Philippines)[4]
• 2018: 3,700 (Channel News Asia)[5]

Notice that they never published the numbers of the communist group between 1968 to 1987. Most likely Marcos didnt want to look like the most successful NPA recruiter of all time.

https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/communist-party-philippines-new-peoples-army#highlight_text_13167

 

Edited May 10, 2022 by rayanami

[FF]

dapat meron din tayong thread for balance.

Marcos & The Martial Law : The Facts You Know But Choose To Ignore !😁

Edited May 10, 2022 by FF

[kuneho92]

Wala na ang lahi ng mga Aquino.

Wala na mag dadala ng apelyido nila.

[Raymoney]

10 hours ago, FF said:

dapat meron din tayong thread for balance.

Marcos & The Martial Law : The Facts You Know But Choose To Ignore !😁

I second this! Mukhang madaming nakakakalimot at nagiging revisionists kamakailan lang 😅

[FF]

On 8/21/2019 at 10:46 AM, will robie said:

Source: Bobi Tiglao's column in Manila Times

Would anyone care to ask around in the journalistic community on the reputation of  Bobbit Tiglao  ? The guy is a skilled paid hack. Wag agad kayo maniwala . Check the internet for more credible sources.

[JackieM]

20 hours ago, kuneho92 said:

Wala na ang lahi ng mga Aquino.

Wala na mag dadala ng apelyido nila.

Wag kalimutan may Bimbi at Josh na ang middle name ay AQUINO. Hehehe

[JackieM]

Gaano kagaling ang AQUINO: 

Tatay ni Bam nagbenta ng power plant na pag-aari ng PNOC sa mga Lopezes. Ilang months after ng bentahan, nag resign ang naging President ng naibentang power plant. Yan ang totoong AQUINO, MAKABAYAN.

Nahiya tuloy akong biruin si Timmy na Mrs ni Bam regarding sa issue.  Magkasama kami dati ni Timmy sa Unilever

[yummy_yumi]

On 5/11/2022 at 6:03 PM, Raymoney said:

I second this! Mukhang madaming nakakakalimot at nagiging revisionists kamakailan lang 😅

 

23 hours ago, FF said:

Would anyone care to ask around in the journalistic community on the reputation of  Bobbit Tiglao  ? The guy is a skilled paid hack. Wag agad kayo maniwala . Check the internet for more credible sources.

@BizMan FF said: 

dapat meron din tayong thread for balance.

Marcos & The Martial Law : The Facts You Know But Choose To Ignore !😁

 

parang ok din po eto sir biz.

[FF]

1 minute ago, yummy_yumi said:

 

@BizMan FF said: 

dapat meron din tayong thread for balance.

Marcos & The Martial Law : The Facts You Know But Choose To Ignore !😁

 

parang ok din po eto sir biz.

@yummy_yumi

Thank you po mam. Kung papalarin. Pagkakataon pong malabanan ang historical revisionism . Again with grateful thanks for the suggestion. 

 

[rayanami]

Eto isang Aquino facts na no one is talking about

Noong panahon ni Marcos, naglabas sya ng agrarian reform program, na naglalayon na mapwersa ang mga haciendero na ibenta ang kanilang lupa sa mga tenants(yung nagsasaka para sa kanila) ng lupa nila.

Sa batas ni Marcos, hindi kasama ang Hacienda Luisita

Noong naupo si Cory, naglabas sya ng agrarian reform version nya, sa batas nya kasama ang Hacienda Luisita sa dapat magbenta ng lupa.

(Yes alam ko ang deal with Magsaysay)

Edited May 12, 2022 by rayanami

[SAGITTARIAN]

I personally met and talk to madam tingting cojuangco. But we only talk about greatness in life and the future and service for the people

[jimjim21]

I want to know more about the martial law

[Mad Damian]

On 5/11/2022 at 5:39 PM, kuneho92 said:

Wala na ang lahi ng mga Aquino.

Wala na mag dadala ng apelyido nila.

Ok lang yan.

Ang bayan ay para sa mga tao at di para sa mga politika.

 

di dapat maging Aquino ang pangalan para magdala ng pag angat ng bayan.

 

marami tin naman magaling at di kurakot.  Mali lang kasi pinipili natin.