Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law
‘Shameless’
Bongbong’s presidential bid a spit on the graves of martial law victims – groups
The Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (Carmma) said Marcos’s presidential bid “is a brazen show of disregard and contempt for the thousands of Filipinos killed, disappeared, tortured, displaced and violated, and the Filipino nation whose economy was plundered and wrecked during the Marcos dictatorship.”
THE 7 SINS OF BONG-BONG MARCOS
1. MARCOSES ILLEGITIMATE WEALTH
The brazen lie that his father’s unbelievable wealth is legitimate. This, in the face of the stand by the Supreme Court defining the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family as those in excess of their total legal income, which was around $304,000 only from 1965 to 1986. Of the $10-billion fortune believed to have been amassed by the Marcoses through the years, the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has managed to recover only about $4 billion.
2. ON BONGBONG’S QUESTIONABLE LIFESTYLE AND ELECTION FUND
Partaking of the fruits of the plunder of the Marcos conjugal dictatorship. While the sins of the father may not be passed on to the son, the son could very well inherit the ill-gotten wealth of the father. And Bongbong, together with the family, did inherit the fruits of the legendary Marcos plunder, much of which has yet to be uncovered, and which Bongbong will never reveal and give back to the people.
Bongbong, for 30 years, has been a mere salaried government official. How could the Marcos family live in style all these years? Where is his election fund coming from?
3. BONGBONG’S ACTIVE PARTICIPATION DURING HIS FATHER’S DICTATORSHIP
Whitewashing of the Marcos dictatorship’s crony capitalism, of which he had been a part. In 1985, when he was 26 years old, his father appointed him chairman of the board of the Philippine Communications Satellite Corp. (Philcomsat), receiving a monthly salary of anywhere between $9,700 to $97,000. This, despite that fact that he rarely even went to the Philcomsat office.
4. COVER-UP OF CORRUPTION DURING PRESIDENT MARCOS' DICTATORSHIP
Cover-up of the unprecedented plunder and economic sabotage that his father committed in the 21 years of his anti-people rule. Under the Marcos dictatorship, the number of Filipinos living below the poverty line doubled from 18 million in 1965 to 35 million in February 1986. The dictator also left behind a staggering foreign debt of $27 billion.
This belies the claim of Bongbong that Filipinos were better off under the Marcoses.
5.BONGBONG’S REFUSAL TO SAY SORRY TO VICTIMS OF MARTIAL LAW
Defending and promoting martial law that, in fact, caused Filipinos to suffer systematic, widespread, and state-sanctioned enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial executions. At least 3,000 were killed and more than 30,000 were detained, brutally tortured, raped, or suffered various forms of abuse.
Bongbong even had the gall to dismiss the 9,539 human rights victims in the Hawaii class suit and won the case against the Marcos estate as purely motivated by compensation. “Pera-pera lang ang habol ng mga iya,” he said.
As a reserve officer in the Philippine Army, Bongbong wore the military combat uniform when his father was sworn into office at the balcony of Malacañang after the dictator rigged the 1986 snap presidential elections. Bongbong upheld electoral fraud and was ready to defend the dictatorship by arms.
6.BONGBONG’S "GRAND SCHEME TO RECAPTURE MALACANANG”
At the expense of historical truth and justice, Bongbong now masterminds the Marcosian plot to foist upon our people the redemption of their ‘family honor’ and the perpetuation of the Marcos rule.
"It is as if the Marcos family, who lived like royalty, were not shamed and repudiated by the people in 1986 after their reign of impunity and greed.
7.BONGBONG’S INVOLVEMENT IN PORK BARREL SCAM
Complicity in the billion-peso Napoles pork barrel scam. He has a lot to explain about his allocation of P100 million for ghost nongovernment organizations of Janet Lim Napoles.
Fighting Historical revisionism
Reiterating Marcos’ plunder
Just days after that barefaced lie, the Sandiganbayan released a decision that all but rebutted Marcos Jr.’s cocky claim and reiterated the Marcos record of pillage. In a Sept. 24 ruling, the anti-graft court ordered Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc., formerly the Traders Royal Bank (TRB), to pay the government around P367 million plus 12 percent per year from 1993 — money it deemed to be part of the ill-gotten wealth of the former dictator and his family. How were these funds traced back to the Marcoses? Bank certificates attesting to the deposits issued by TRB from 1974 to 1979 were recovered from the crates the Marcoses brought when they fled to Hawaii in 1986.
Lies and Misrepresentations in Bongbong Marcos's BBM Vlog 148
There are at least seven false claims, misrepresentations or elements requiring context in Bongbong Marcos’s latest vlog, BBM Vlog 148, titled “Bringing Back Transparency to the Election System” posted after the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed Marcos’ protest of Vice President Leni Robredo’s victory last Feb. 16.
Contentwise, Marcos’s Vlog 148 it is a revised version of his Vlog 145, “Hybrid Election System for 2022,” which was uploaded on January 30, 2021. The “new” entry adds a title card, portions—largely from trailers, it seems—of the 2020 HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, and other additional visuals, such as a list of updates regarding the hybrid election bills filed in Congress. Marcos did not record new material for BBM Vlog 148.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bongbong Marcos unloads five inaccurate claims on election systems in vlog
A vlog posten on February 2021 by former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. that bears false and misleading claims about the Philippines’ electoral system continues to circulate on social media.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bongbong Marcos falsely claims martial law horrors fabricated
Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is wrong in saying that plunder, massive corruption, and human rights violations “did not happen” during his father’s 20-year rule.
PORK BARREL SCANDAL
In 2014, Bongbong Marcos was implicated by Janet Lim Napoles and Benhur Luy in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Pork Barrel scam through agent Catherine Mae "Maya" Santos.
Marcos was said to have channeled P100 million through 4 fake NGOs linked with Napoles through the National Livelihood Development Corporation (NLDC): Ginintuang Alay sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc (P5 million), Agricultura sa Magbubukid Foundation Inc (P25 million), Kaupdanan para sa Mangungugma Foundation Inc (P25 million), and Agri and Economic Program for Farmers Foundation Inc (P45 million). Marcos claimed that the large amounts of money was released by the budget department without his knowledge and that his signatures were forged.
2016 Commission on Audit suit
In 2016, Marcos was also sued for plunder for funneling P205 million of his PDAF via 9 special allotment release orders (SARO) to the following bogus foundations from October 2011 to January 2013, according to Luy's digital files:
Social Development Program for Farmers Foundation (SDPFFI) – P15mCountrywide Agri and Rural Economic Development Foundation (CARED) – P35mPeople's Organization for Progress and Development Foundation (POPDFI) – P40mHealth Education Assistance Resettlement Training Services (HEARTS) – P10mKaupdanan Para Sa Mangunguma Foundation (KMFI) – P20mNational Livelihood Development Corporation (NLDC) – P100m
These NGOs were found by the Commission on Audit (COA) as bogus with shady or non-existent offices.
The projects are the following:
P10 million through SDPFFI in General Nakar, Quezon with SARO issued on June 2012P10 million through HEARTS in Bulakan, Bulacan on June 2012P10 million through CARED in San Antonio, Nueva EcijaP10 million through POPDFI in Pilar, BataanP5 million through CARED in Bulacan on Jan. 2013.P5 million through POPDFI in Balungao, Pangasinan on June 2012P10 million through KMFI in Sual, PangasinanP10 million through KMFI in Calasiao, PangasinanP5 million through POPDFI in Umingan, Pangasinan on Dec. 2011P100 million through NLDC on Dec. 2011P5 million through SDPFFI in Sariaya, Quezon on Oct. 2011P10 million through PODFI in Pilar, Bataan on Oct. 2011P10 million through CARED in Umingan, Pangasinan on Oct. 2011P5 million through CARED in Rosales, PangasinanP5 million through CARED in Mangatarem, Pangasinan (later realigned to Umingan)
COA tells Bongbong Marcos: Return P10M pork
The Commission on Audit (COA) has disapproved for being “illegal and irregular” the P10 million channeled by Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to a livelihood project in Nakar town, Quezon province, through a foundation headed by pork barrel scam whistle-blower Benhur Luy.
A notice of disallowance was issued by COA audit team leader Romeo B. Limara and supervising auditor Wilhelmina R. Cabuhat to Nakar Mayor Leovegildo R. Ruzol on June 30, 2014 ordering the return of Marcos’ P10 million, which was drawn from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and transferred to Luy’s Social Development Program for Farmers Foundation Inc. (SDPFFI) for the implementation of a project called “organic farming for high value crops.”
The COA said that SDPFFI’s physical and legal existence was “questionable” as its address on its local government and tax registration certificates was a residential house at South City Homes in Biñan town, Laguna province (the same village where Napoles lived before she moved to Ayala Alabang).
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