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Article: Democracy Filipino style.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 30, 2005
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Byline: Fr. Rolando V Dela Rosa
IT is our custom nowadays to sneer at martial law and exaggerate its defects. In contrast, we extol democracy and belittle its dangers. It is about time that we reviewed such judgments. It is simplistic to say that the Marcos regime had created all our present problems. We are resurrecting repeatedly this chapter in our history as a convenient scapegoat for present failures.
Most of our problems today are not vestiges of the martial rule but the inevitable offshoot of our brand of democracy. Priding ourselves as the first democratic country in Asia, we presume wrongly that democracy is practiced in the Philippines in the ...