Family Feud PH

FOCUSED ON THE call for accountability and jailingof senators and congressmen involved in stealing the people’s money in the government’s flood-control and infrastructure projects with private contractors, the country suddenly finds itself rivetted on a public spectacle of two Marcos siblings feuding like a hungry lioness trying to grab a freshly-caught gazelle from a lion already relishing its fresh meat.

In front of more than half a million INC rallyists in the Luneta, Senator Imee Marcos cried out loud and clear that his brother President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has been taking illegal drugs. Sen. Imee also said that hiswife, the First Lady, was also taking illegal drugs. 

In truth, the public has been aware, many years back and especially during the campaign period of the Bongbong Marcos – Sara Duterte UNITEAM, that there were talks of the young Bongbong taking illegal drugs, as early as when his father was the president.

Cheers from the crowd met Sen. Imee’s public revelation about drug use by her brother, including his family. Reactions quickly reverberated, most prominently from the president’s son, Majority Leader Ferdinand “Sandro” A. Marcos, saying that “IT’S NO ACT OF REAL SIBLINGS.” 

FAMILY DRAMA

Press Officer Claire Castro quickly retorted: “a desperate move,” “kwentong kutsero,” “It’s just noise!” – probably to stop her allies in the senate from being implicated in the anomalous flood-control projects investigations. Sen Panfilo Lacson expressed his disappointment, “That was very un-Filipino.” 

“A family drama,” according to Akbayan Rep. Perci Cendana and Mamamayang Liberal Rep. Leila De Lima, pointing out that the incident just highlighted the urgency of Congress’ passing an Anti-Dynasty Bill forthwith.

To the netizens and serious followers of political and economic developments in the country, this latest open display of the Marcoses’ family feud simply reminded them not to forget the long-held public awareness of a corrupt family dynasty, responsible for atrocities involving more than 200,000 Filipinos in the seventies until the 1986 People Power Revolution. 

This was heartlessly implemented by their patriarch-dictator father, Ferdinand E. Marcos. 

Among themselves, as individuals, the Ferdinand-Imelda children were probably born with the unique “corruption-DNA.”

Thus, the sister-brother feud just happened to erupt publicly before a “religious” Filipino audience numbering almost a million gathered, ironically, in the sacred grounds of the imposing monument of the country’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. 

LOYAL TO DUTERTE

Not to forget, that Sen. Imee Marcos, on the same stage, practically announced to the entire nation about her political stand, namely, her loyalty to the ICC jailbird Duterte and family. (She probably cannot forget that it was this murderer, as former mayor/president who managed, deceptively, in defiance of the people’s understandable objection, to have the remains of her father – the brutal dictator-plunderer and traitor to the Filipino people, Ferdinand E. Marcos – buried in the sacred grounds exclusively for certified heroes of the country, the Libingan ng mgaBayani).  

More pointedly today, Sen. Imee, along with what the netizens call DDS-senators, has shown her support for the archiving of the impeachment of the galivanting VP Sara Duterte. The people cannot fully understand thisapparent canine loyalty to this corrupt vice-president, publicly exposed as betrayer of public trust, havingwasted millions of the people’s money in her “confidential projects,” and clear violations of the Constitution and the Rule of Law. 

Political Analysts and citizens, concerned about the country’s progress as a nation, can only hope that the Marcos-Duterte brand of leadership, in the meantime that they are in the driver’s seat until early 2028, will abandon their stupid and corrupt style of decision-making, and use a bit of common sense, if they haveany.