Recalling Edsa 2001
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
With the world now commenting on what is going on in Egypt and Tunisia, one remembers how it was here for people power, in 1986 and 2001. I’m choosing here not to dwell so much on the first one, now on its 25th year of commemoration, but on the relatively still recent, especially as last Sunday in President Joseph Estrada’s house for lunch, talk focused on how it was then for the man who could have been president again in 2010, and how much, much kinder world-wide opinion was for him. Here are snippets.
From Time magazine’s Sandra Burton, Jan. 29, 2001: “Remember Estrada — however cynically — was acting within the framework of the law and under the terms called for by the impeachment proceedings. Had he been declared guilty, he would have had to go. The troubling point remains that he had not been convicted… but they had mechanisms to legally change their head of state. The option they chose, popular uprising, while rousing and probably justified, could portend a troubling future for democracy… but if those protests lead to constitutionally questionable successions, it becomes a subversion of democracy. Even now, we don’t know what percentage of Filipinos wanted Erap to go.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110201com4.html
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