Chaotic Desperation

    “With great power comes great responsibility”, Spiderman once said. He said this proudly as he became the all time superhero were everybody can lean on him. Likewise here in the Philippines we have had someone we can lean on and that is the President of our dearest Republic of the Philippines.

    September 21, 1972. The day when the herculean President Ferdinand Marcos vigorously declared Batas Militar, translated to English it is Martial Law. A government where we are under a dictatorship of a President, it all lies into him. We are in the government that all the inquiries and transactions of the country lies into the lips of the President.

    One of which is the Media Suppression, where it orders an order that directly impedes the media’s ability to report freely. This is oppressive as it is. To the journalist and as a citizen of the Philippines this has been a long burden. Unreasonably burdensome, depressing to the spirit of the citizens who doesn’t have any knowledge what are the current happenings under an administration. We all have the right to know and right of information. Disabled persons, deaf, blind, mute, girl, boy, bakla, tomboy we all have the inevitable right to be informed. But what happened during the Marcos regime is the perfect nightmare we all don’t want to happen. Media as it says is the “voice of the voiceless” and because of this suppression voiceless becomes more voiceless, found to be nowhere.

    In time, suppression of media may entail some advantages and disadvantages still we the citizens of the country also entails so much freedom. We may have this freedom it should be perfectly partnered with limitations. Also, having the power of this freedom we may not tend to overused it not like the other influential people who tend to abused this pre-existing gift of life and look at what happen a chaotic desperation.