His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte reasoned out that there can be healing among the divided Filipinos if the then strongman Ferdinand Edralin Marcos of Batac be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Can there be really healing when the people are still divided? Nine Supreme Court justices, almost the same justices who were appointed by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo an ally of Duterte who absolved Arroyo from the case of plunder, ruled in favor of Marcos' burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Days after the rendition of the highest tribunal of its decision and without waiting for the result of the Motion for Reconsideration filed by the petitioners, the Marcos family decided for the interment of their patriarch at the Heroes' Cemetery just recently. The people protested as a result and the protests are simply sprouting from the different places of the country. The question now is this ... is this the HEALING that President Duterte would like us to see?
Now, it is for the people to judge whether or not our President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had discerned with all his heart, mind and soul regarding his decision to bury Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. If the people feel like the president committed a grave abuse of his discretion as the supreme leader of the country in his decision to order the interment of Marcos in the hallowed grounds of the heroes' final resting place, then let there be a gargantuan protest against him to reconsider his decision to bury Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani for a dictator does not deserve any honor from the people he had betrayed.
In connection to this, I hope and pray that the good president will always consult the people in cases like these, for failure to consult the people in national issues as gigantic as this would mean uselessness on the part of the people of electing their supreme national leader who they feel like their hero who would save them from the abyss of hopelessness.
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