What do you think is the real significance of Ninoy Aquino to the Filipino people?

Question

When he said " The Filipino is worth dying for", did it really make sense to come back and face whatever comes his way? Like being assassinated? Do you think he could have waited for the right time to come back and perhaps later become the president to lead the nation towards proserity like what the other Asean nations achieved? Would you say Aquino's death is comparable to Jose Rizal's death and heroism?

Answer 1

Makes me wonder if he meant to be a hero or a martyr. I asked myself the same thing when I came across a documentary on PBS dealing with his assasination. Thinking about it now, it reminds me of a line I remember from West Wing:

"A martyr would rather suffer death at the hands of
an oppressor than renounce his beliefs...
...we don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes.
A hero would die for his country but he'd much
rather live for it... "

I personally wish they would have gone about it differently, and I don't suppose Ninoy could have done any worse than how things already were at that point when Marcos had already bent the Philippines over so many times and had his way with it.

Apples and oranges on the Rizal thing though. We were dealing with totally different types of tyrrany, and in Rizal's case, he dealt it with heroism.
Ninoy's death was pure dumbass suicidal martyrdom, and having done what he did cheated the filipinos and the future generations of filipinos of freedom and justice. We believed in him and what he stood for and a lot of people put their trust on his leadership. He robbed us of our future when he got on that plane.

Answer 2

One thing I've noticed is that in general terms, Filipinos don't have a good appreciation for history. Maybe for some the significance is that they have a public holiday because of his death, or that the airport in Manila is named after him.

Ninoy believed that the time had come to take on Marcos in the Philippines. At the time that he came, the opposition was in disarray. He was a big threat to the powerbase of the Marcos regime. Marcos didn't want to touch him..but it was apparently Imelda and Gen Ver who had him assassinated.

The Philippines really lacks a person who will stand up for what's right and be incorruptable, to bring equality to the masses and a fair system for all. Jose Rizal challenged the Spanish system in the same way that Ninoy did against the Marcoses, both were murdered....but as far as ongoing contributions to the wider community are concerned, I think that most Filipinos are too timid to take on the forces and move for a change in the way things are done.

We can always analyse things from a western perspective, but when it comes to money and politics, things are very different in the Philippines. People can disappear overnight if they cause too much of a stir.

Answer 3

maximum folk of the names i exploit have not got any magnitude; I in simple terms p.c.. them at random from names i think of the mothers and fathers could have named them. the only circumstances characters have significant names are whilst the characters call themselves with the help of names of their own choosing.

Answer 4

It's is easy to call him a hero but it is hard to prove. SAF44 is a better hero than him.