Marcos Truth: Criminal Allegations to Marcoses, Mere Fictions (Archive)

*A repost from my Wordpress Blog, I thought it would be relevant especially with the current platform of Senator Noynoy Aquino*

Years had passed after the EDSA People Power Revolution in the Philippines and the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) was established, yet up to now, the government has not recovered mostly of the said ill-gotten wealth and has even freed Imelda of some of her criminal convictions.

Is it because there is really NOTHING to be recovered? Is it because those accusations are mere fictions, of no facts and truth? Is it because the false accusations were only effects of the an anti-publicity campaign against the Marcoses which were said to be led by the former President Corazon Aquino? Are the Filipinos given the false hope shaped by the media and former and even recent administrations?

In 1995, Peter Cosandey, one of the persons in charge in the said Swiss accounts of the Marcoses told the PCGG that it would take 150 years or even no assurance of recovering it. This is primarily because there is no sufficient evidence of the existence of that wealth. The statement of Cosandey seems to be right because until now, PCGG has not so much boasted that they have accomplished their mission. It is funny to say that four administrations have already succeeded Marcos yet PCGG has not accomplished its battle against graft and corruption. Maybe, they have also to expand their fight against graft and corruption to the administrations proceeding Marcos.

Meanwhile, Imelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand Marcos has been freed of criminal convictions early this decade because also of lack of evidence.

These happenings among others should have long awakened the nation to stop the useless and false accusations to the Marcoses. Instead of dwelling to the long time fiction and imagination of the ill-gotten wealth, the country should spend its money to the real and tangible problems of the society nowadays.