This is an excerpt from RhinoMouse's work :temporal manipulations (https://archiveofourown.org/works/18640942/chapters/44961685#workskin). The entire chapter and the chap before? It was what our government has been doing. In this author's standpoint, would you call it martial law? Would you call it overstepping the line? Taking people like Lord and Vandal Savage... The vice president being in custody? Are they good for this make up world or were they right, it is to clean the present to have a better future?
We have our own Maxwell Lord, Lex Luthor and Vandal Savage.
We have a Vice President Baker.
What's worst? They are not after aliens, they are after fellow Filipinos who cannot fight and there is no Kara Danvers, no Supergirl, No righteous Kryptonians, no Lena Luthor, no Alex.
It's just one man who saw how hard it was, one man who decided to rise with the masses, the middle class, the poverty class and the below poverty.
This...from a standpoint of someone living in the Philippines who is not part of the privileged few, who had experienced life under the government from Marcos up to the present, from someone who I think has more say than those whose knowledge of my country and my government is base from articles mostly written by foreigners, by people who have no real insight in the inner workings of filipino minds and life, by people who hated the government's current action against oligarchs because it is stopping their bread and butter. We are fighting.
Our president would not have won and get majority of support from filipinos inside the philippines if we didnt see how he cares about the little people and not the one with money. The excerpt I have attched is my government and it is trying hard to fight that rot within, but those that benefits from these rotten tomatoes are using dirty tactics like misinformed propagandas because they want to be in power again.
The alleged stepping on the right of speech? If that were true, if you have read reports about an actor who had said a lot of mis guided informations and even threaten the government live in the internet, that rant should not have been shown, but it was and he is still roaming around making shows.
I have learned a lot of things at tumblr, political and social standpoints which I hd been blind before, I read about hardships, racism, abuse, etc, and as someone who had experience of every government since Marcos regime, I say my government is fighting corruption for real, cleaning it from the inside and out, we are trying to stop the rot from spreading.
Did you know... In 1985, Marcos did not flee from the Philippines but was abducted? Him and his entire family? You who keeps on spreading these bad informations about the Marcos Govt, about the Duterte government, have you read all the "stories" that were showed that were not embellished by the yellow turds? Do you know why the US was so invested in taking down Marcos and putting Cory in the government? Read something other than those books written during the time of Cory Aquino and the subsequent presidents reign, watch interviews of key people who had opened their mouth and tell you anecdotes of truth. But our government now... We are trying. We are fighting in the way we Filipinos know how.
How is your government doing about the rots in yours so far?
If you are not a Filipino, who knows nothing much about my country, please let us handle our own. We have a lot of cleaning to do.
And Pres Marsdin is right in this excerpt, we Filipinos have decided, "It is time to say No more."