The fear of EDSA
Posted in Vantage Point on March 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
When Gloria Macapagal Arroyo says the world doesn’t want another EDSA, she’s actually saying she won’t allow another people power uprising to happen. And when she says that the world merely “tolerated” EDSA 2 in 2001, she’s talking about her own forbearance for it more than the planet’s.
Mrs. Arroyo had said the same thing before, notably in 2006, when she said it with police guns, truncheons, water cannon, and Proclamation 1017, which she issued on the very day the 20th anniversary of EDSA 1 was being celebrated. The difference is that last February 25, she was hiding behind “the world” to say what’s been in her mind since she came to power in 2001. »