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101st Founding Anniversary of Cayetano Arellano High School today - March 4, 2022.

Stand by for a live broadcast at exactly 9:00 am for morning mass and 4:00 pm for programme proper.

Our batch72 Golden Anniversary Virtual Reunion via ZOOM..

Attention Batch72..we are cordially invited you to join us to our 50th virtual reunion via Zoom..see you there..guin72😁😃😍😘

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A LEGACY OF GREED

In a world not driven to the brink of madness, the scion of a thief who has lived off his father’s loot all these years would continue to enjoy the high life but keep everything under the radar, least the father’s crime be revisited in the public sphere or worse, re-litigated in the courts of law and public opinion. This is especially true because the father victimized not one person or family, but the whole country -- a nation robbed of its patrimony, stalled in its pursuit of destiny.

But Bongbong Marcos, son of the late dictator Ferdinand, could not resist the compulsion to carry on his father’s contemptible legacy. He must have it all – money and power -- just like his father did.

He is running for president in next year’s election. The bitter taste of a loss he suffered in 2016 to incumbent vice-president Leni Robredo still in his mouth, he has vowed it will be different this time. The instructions in his new playbook are precise: distort history, cozy up to the political moguls and the wealthy, gaslight the gullible and stoke the perceived victimhood of the poor and barely literate. Say what the masses want to hear, amplify their grievances. Deny the past. Lie, obfuscate.

In Bongbong’s retelling of history – and as has been parroted by his enablers -- the Marcos years were golden, exemplified by a robust economy, a rising standard of living, gaudy infrastructure projects, artsy vanity initiatives, prestigious international events and a thriving free press.

But reality says differently. Economic growth was stagnant, the poverty rate was high, the national debt was ballooning. Overhyped projects were just one boondoggle after another. Control of vital industries -- rice, sugar, coconut, to***co, energy, telecommunications, banking, finance -- was vested solely on cronies. Filipinos were fleeing in droves to work menial jobs in the Middle East to escape a stifling economic climate that fostered helplessness and hopelessness.

For 21 years without letup, the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda emptied the national coffers. While millions suffered grinding poverty behind freshly painted white fences and other window dressing, the Marcoses gave new meaning to profligacy. A nation that held promise in the 1960s as a future economic force in Southeast Asia lagged its neighbours, landed in the poor house, and was ridiculed as a basket case.

Those who opposed the brutal regime were dealt with by the military. Those who spoke against Imelda Marcos’s excesses were silenced. Political enemies were incarcerated, opposition parties browbeaten, student activists banished and everybody else bullied and threatened. The press was muzzled – anyone who dared publish the truth became casualties in the reign of terror.

And where was Bongbong while his father was bulldozing the country’s democratic ideals? If not at home enjoying the perks of wealth and power, he was at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, using up oxygen in a classroom he didn’t belong to. The father pulled all the stops to get Junior a top-notch education, but the son was never the smart man his father was. Bongbong flunked his course but, as history would show, always had the option of a fake degree he can wave at supplicants at home for when he runs for public office. Another fake piece of paper from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, for good measure, should do the trick.

ALTERNATIVE REALITY
In his retelling, he was just a kid when Martial Law happened. So, he wants people to disbelieve their eyes, forget what they experienced and ignore their better judgment. Anything to erase the Marcos infamy forever from memory.

Unable to defend the indefensible, Bongbong’s convoluted narrative descends into territory untouched by logic: “Martial Law didn’t happen … and if it did, it wasn’t bad … and if it was bad, I had nothing to do with it. I was just a kid.”

But reality has a habit of hitting back with incontrovertible facts. He was already 15 years old when his father declared Martial Law in 1972, was a 23-year-old adult in 1980 when he was elected vice-governor of Ilocos Norte province, was 26 when he became governor, and 29 when the Marcoses fled by helicopter to Hawaii to escape the people’s wrath. He was even photographed in army fatigues in a family picture at the Palace balcony, an ignominious photo for the ages.

One other actor in this Marcosian farce is the Marcos loyalist who walks around with a broken moral compass -- the one whose sense of right and wrong has been damaged by a culture of fluff and disinformation: “The Marcoses weren’t plunderers, that’s fake news! … and if they were, nobody could prove it … but if it has been proven, well, at least he was a strong leader. Cory Aquino was weak and Ninoy Aquino was a communist.”

The record should be set straight. First, the Marcoses bled the country dry -- there should be no debate about that. The state-sponsored robbery has been proven repeatedly. The Presidential Commission on Good Government, established in 1986, has recovered from various sources some Php 171 billion (US$3.4 billion) of the Marcos loot, the bulk of it used to pay reparations to victims of human rights abuses. That is just a fraction of what economists estimate to be a total haul between US$ 5 billion to US$ 13 billion.

How is that for proof of the Marcos plunder?

Second, Marcos was not a strong leader the Bongbong narrative portrays; he was a despot. Injecting Ninoy and Cory Aquino into the conversation is a red herring. Cory Aquino was thrust into her role as a unifier in a uniquely challenging time. Ninoy Aquino did not ask to be a hero; the brutal regime made him one.

SYSTEM IS BROKEN
Had the Philippine system been functional, democratic institutions strong and officials firm, resolute and incorruptible, the Marcos brand reboot would not have materialized. But that’s too much to ask from a country where the system is broken and corruption is systemic. Outgoing president Rodrigo Duterte, himself an autocratic thug, allowed the dictator to be buried among heroes. The Marcos siblings got the green light to ease back into political life and run for public office. Before long, it was the old days once again.

The divinity of forgive-and-forget is embedded into the Filipino ethos. It is a slap in the face of justice when plunderers go unpunished. But justice, Philippine-style, has been slapped so many times by corrupt governments it has become numb to the pain. By reflex action, it just turns the other cheek and hopes for the best.

Absent a united opposition to square off against him one-on-one, Bongbong is on track to win. If petitions against his candidacy, on grounds of tax evasion, do not disqualify him, he will be president. He has vast resources to buy votes. He has billions for troll farms that churn out inane “Solid BBM” posts on Facebook. He has formed an alliance with the kingpins of powerful political families – former president Gloria Arroyo, ousted former president Joseph Estrada and outgoing president Duterte -- in a blood compact that conjures images of Mafia crime families and South America’s drug cartels.

He has the old allies in the oligarch class on the one hand, and the vote-rich sector represented by the misinformed and the gullible on the other. This is a mix of old folks who believe the lie that Martial Law was a picnic, and young voters who couldn’t tell Marcos from Augusto Pinochet or Anastasio Somoza, but pretend to be knowledgeable about the subject, thanks to social media.

Young voters -- especially those who didn't go to college or finish high school -- by their sheer number, are a prize catch. They are the products of a declining educational standard but they grew up in the age of the internet, so they can text on their phones with lightning speed. They rarely read newspapers or anything that would challenge their critical thinking. They are easy pickings for disinformation. They are exactly where opportunists like Bongbong want them.

For a country that has rarely, if ever, tasted good governance, a Bongbong presidency right on the heels of a brutal, corrupt and incompetent Duterte government, will be devastating. As the son tries to continue the father's master plan -- until he was unceremoniously overthrown 35 years ago -- the more discerning opposition voters could only watch in horror. It will be no different from watching a freight train driving off a cliff in slow motion.

-Alfred Elicierto
Batch 71

Hi Fellow Arellanites!

We would like to inform you that there has been a change in the schedule of our 76th Grand Alumni Reunion. It will now be on Dec 12, Sunday, at the Centennial Hall of The Manila Hotel.

Registration will start at 9am and the program will start promptly at 10:45am. Lunch will be served at 12noon and the event is expected to end by 4pm.

Get your tickets now at a cost of Php1, 500 per person. Each attendee is entitled to a copy of the special edition of the Grand Reunion Magazine and a raffle ticket.

For those who cannot personally attend our reunion, they can avail of live streaming for a minimal fee of
Php 800/person. For group subscription of 5 persons to live streaming, on the other hand, the total cost is Php3,500 (or Php700 each). Each subscriber to live streaming is entitled to a copy of the magazine and a raffle ticket.

We will provide the link as soon as payment has been received by our Treasurer. Please forward your payment to: Metrobank Savings
Account Name:Ron Ryan Cadiz
Account No. 0827082 512515

Wear your Sunday’s best in attending our reunion.

For inquiries and ticket reservations, you may contact any one from the following:
Ryan Cadiz @09989859204
Monalisa Remolino - @
09275503883
Josephine Dacanay @ 09209183032
Lani Cuartero @ 09567194503

Let us take this opportunity to be with our fellow Arellanites from here and abroad. Let us come together for this once in a lifetime event considering that our alma mater is celebrating its centennial year at this time.

See you on December 12th! Salamat po...

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