It addles our mind how President Noynoy Aquino can ignore the rampant human rights abuses under his administration and point to the martial law regime of the Marcoses as rabid violators of the people’s human rights.
There is this very interesting segment of a news report about the on-going protest action waged by Lumads of Mindanao through their Manilakbayan - protest trek all the way from Mindanao to the NCR.
Common sense and simple logic will teach us that the de facto martial law that now prevails in the countryside is abhorred by the masses of the people.
And we can grasp the reason why the les miserables congregate and dare to storm the citadel of tyranny in order to secure for themselves social justice and liberty.
There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children – one is roots, the other, wings.