Ano daw?

 In Sara Duterte’s latest update, the impeached vice president has supposedly told her father, “You could end up like Ninoy Aquino if you return to the Philippines.” To which, her father supposedly responded, “So be it.”

It’s too much to expect from Sara to know her history because she is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Neither is she known to be well-read given that her only known authorship of anything is a book for kids designed on Canva. Same goes with Duterte supporters who would lap this up rabidly without thinking.

It’s outrigtht sacrilegious to compare Ninoy with Digong. Like I want to throw up just thinking about it. But let’s end this stupidity in its infancy.

Ninoy was a politicial prisoner of Marcos. He was the most brilliant and prominent opposition figure when Martial Law was declared. Ninoy and Marcos where frat brothers in U.P. that’s why Marcos was well aware just how brilliant and charismatic Ninoy was as an opposition leader. 

Ninoy suffered physical and mental torture at the hands of the dictatorship and was actually sentenced to death by a military kangaroo court on made-up charges.

He faced the court, didn’t escape to seek asylum, and actually went on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment where he almost died.

Marcos, not wanting to make a martyr out of him, agreed to send him to the U.S. as it was the best option to get rid of Ninoy without having to execute him via firing squad.

Unlike Ninoy who was jailed for political reasons, Former President Duterte is in prison facing chargers of crimes against humanity. 

Unlike the military court that tried Ninoy, the ICC is not military in nature and certainly not a kangaroo court. It’s a legitimate court formed under the Rome Statute and ratified by 125-member states.

Unlike Ninoy who was subjected to emotional and mental suffering to take out the fight in him, Duterte is not being subjected to injustice as he is being given a fair trial at the highest order possible. The charges he is facing are not made up. It is a result of 8 years of investigation and evidence gathering.

Unlike Ninoy who was held in detention in a military camp in Laur in Nueva Ecija in a small cell often in only his undies and sando, Duterte is not being mentally and physically maltreated. He is being given the best care health-wise and nutrition-wise in a First World country in a cell that could pass off as a decent European-standard three or four-star AirBnB.

Unlike Ninoy who was rarely allowed visits by his family, Duterte enjoys once a week visits from Sara and his defense team to make sure he his being cared for.

Unlike Ninoy who almost died and physically damaged his heart due to his hunger strike, Duterte is reportedly even complaining about the Dutch food being served to him that’s why according to Sara, the ICC has prepared rice perfectly cooked and suited to Filipino tastes.

So let’s be clear. Duterte is never going to be a martyr. He will have to face the charges of crimes against humanity. 

Unlike Ninoy who went home to help restore freedom and democracy while facing great danger to his life, Duterte would either come home an innocent and vindicated man raring to seek vengeance against the Marcoses backed by rabid and brainwashed DDS morons, or he will spend the rest his life in prison as a criminal and enemy of humanity who has been tried fair and square.

Even if Duterte lives several lifetimes, he will never measure up to Ninoy Aquino. Not in this universe or in any other universe. Stop this idiocy.