The Real Meaning of Noynoy Aquino’s Slogan, “Ituloy ang LABAN”
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It appears that the real meaning of Noynoy Cojuangco-Aquino’s version of the LABAN slogan is “Let the
Aquinos, et al, Bankrupt Again the Nation.” What, ituloy (continue)? Continue with the financial disaster that
was the Cory Cojuangco-Aquino Dispensation’s legacy, along with her regime’s moral bankruptcy, if not
also intellectual bankruptcy?
Can the Philippines afford a Second Coming of a Cojuangco-Aquino presidency?
Columnist Antonio C. Abaya says that he fears “a Noynoy presidency would be a Cory II interlude, which
would be a disaster for this disaster-prone country.”
So in 1985-1986, I was a yellow-shirted Corysta. But by mid-1987 I was thoroughly disillusioned, and I was
probably one of the first columnists to ask her to resign.—Antonio C. Abaya in his Sept. 16, 2009, column,
‘What about Cory II?’
T ony Abaya and I were “Cory Crusaders” during the 1986 presidential “snap” elections but soon many of us
became “Sorry Crusaders,” as I related in this exposé of the corruption that happened during the Cory
Cojuangco-Aquino presidency:
Not Getting Mad at, But Getting Even With, Tita Cory
I reiterated the public knowledge of the Cojuangco-led “Kamaganak, Inc.” that led to so many financial
scandals during the First Cojuangco-Aquino Dispensation in which nearly all the Cojuangcos participated in
the looting of the country’s assets and treasury in this article:
Revisiting Cory Aquino on Her Birthday: Should Son Noynoy and Nephew Gibo Teodoro Answer Alleged
Corruption Involving the Cojuangcos?
Here are excerpts from “What about Cory II?” by Antonio C. Abaya, as published in the Sept. 16, 2009, issue
of the Standard Today,
“Though I did not nurse any nostalgia for the kleptomanic Marcoses, I could see that President Cory did not
possess the leadership qualities needed to build a New Philippines on the ruins of the old. Cory herself
confessed in 1985 that she knew nothing about being president. Her subsequent actuations as president
provided the proofs of her own fears.
“With all due respect to her enormous positive contributions in throwing the Marcoses out, I was
discouraged by her inadequate grasp of matters of state, her naiveté towards the Communist movement
which was virtually knocking on the gates of Metro Manila during her watch, her lack of vision of what she
wanted to accomplish other than the restoration of bourgeois democracy, her preference for the advice from
perceived pro-Communists in her Cabinet – including the advice to release from detention of Joma Sison
and other top Communists - which directly led to at least two military coup attempts against her.
“That is why I am not excited by the rise of Noynoy Aquino as our possible next president. Because, like his
non-political mother, he has had no solid accomplishments as a political person, despite his 11 years in
Congress, and because his personality make-up is closer to his saintly mother's than to his combative
father's, I fear that a Noynoy presidency would be a Cory II interlude, which in my opinion would be a disaster
for this disaster-prone country.”
Will the Filipino voters cast their ballots to “Let the Aquinos, et al, Bankrupt Again the Nation” (LABAN)? I don’t
think so. Because more and more people now believe in this modified adage, “Like mother, like son.”
Yes, I know that the adage should have been, “Like father, like son.” But I knew Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr.,
and Noynoy is no Ninoy Aquino – from oratorical skill to writing prowess to leadership and what not. Noynoy
is not a chip off the old block. Here is an earlier article about my argument that very few from among the
present national leaders come close to becoming a Ninoy Aquino or a Ramon Magsaysay or even a
Ferdinand Marcos: Where Have All the Filipino Leaders Gone? (With Apology to Lee Iacocca)
And poor Ninoy Aquino “died in vain,” as I argued from this article, Two Different Views of the Death of
Benigno S. Aquino, Jr.
To be continued . . .
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