The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.”
― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, If I Am Assassinated;
CHAINED
-ROBERT ACEBUCHE
As our countrymen pull the trigger on the darkest past , soldiers started to march raising the grave on the top while the tears on their eyes flickered and begin to travel around their cheeks, we are chained! Ashes begin to flew while it’s muck remain on the red roses, the mewling of the people on that era engulf the Filipinos strength but started to kneel on the ground. Some people learned how to fight but few hide. The red deminish was being raised on top, and yes, the chaos begin while the inner drums beating. But in reality, I know, you know, we know, We are in chained.
In the proclamation of martial law, Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972 “ My countrymen, as of the twenty first of this month, I signed proclamation no. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law. The declaration was criticized as a planned precursor to extending Marcos term in office. Those past 46 years, the riot between the people and the government kills a thousands of people and some we’re murdered. In accordance to the poem “ Apo on the Wall” it tacles different experiences of the Filipinos where the child on the poem was being compared to the Filipinos who are being restricted and abused. According to Mr. Aquino III, in total, there were 3,257 extrajudicial killings, 35 000 individual tortures and 70 000 were incarcerated. In the poem, Apo is compared to Ferdinand Marcos were re ruled our countrymen and compared as Jesus where he sees everything. The father in the poem is somewhat the soldiers who idolize Marcos in his genuity.
Martial Law is a great horror on our ancestors in the year 1972 were honestly they suffered pain and abuse. It was so sad hearing the stories of our countrymen who sacrificed their lives for the sake of others. According to Benigno Aquino III, he ordered state historians to compile stories of the survivors for the sake of the youth who have no memory of that period. He also said that “ The key points of Martial rule is to refresh people’s memories in the face of what he sees as attempts by propagandists and revisionist to cast it in a positive light” He want to ensure that the information we’re passing on to the youth is based on a truthful event in our history. Let us always remember that actions have consequences and that’s why the chained were being unlocked because of everyone’s participation.
APO ON THE WALL
Reader's Response Approach
Apo on the Wall
By: Bj Patino
(Gaeian Romero)
Based on our report that we’ve done we are tacled the story of Apo on the Wall assign by reader’s response approach. The flow of the poem has the similarities of the martial law and also for those characteristics that we’ve mention. Regarding this our group has decide to research about more information that connected to the Apo on the Wall. The main theme of the poem has give to our group the curiosity to find out what is the message of the poem. For being assign to reader’s response approach. I was asked to find more about it and connect it to the poem and then. I discovered that there are thing that the same in to the martial law by Marcos.
In the poem according to the characters that the portrait represent a powerful human like scary Jesus in the hall way represented by Marcos and the man that has a lot of privilege, the award with trophies he represented to his Filipino country men. Martial law is described as one of the darkest chapters in Philippine history. There’s a lot of Filipino’s who sacrificed of that day. Marcos has the powerful words you cannot speak against of him otherwise you are dead. A man rules was impose a human rights were violated and that represented of the son based on the poem.
In short, the Apo on the Wall has the historic information to the reader the idea from the poem of one soldier’s one boy and the scary Jesus has the same thing with the martial law. Based on the article of martial law I suppose to be use the reader’s response approach to the information who is the victim who was experience on that day because, I am in the 21st century, I don’t have any idea about the martial law because im too young.
REFERENCE:
https://penreflection.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/a-reflection-to-apo-on-the-wall-by-bj-patino-2/
APO ON THE WALL
Reader's Response Approach
MARTIAL LAW: A Traumatized Event
-Jerome Grutas-
Martial law is the unforgettable event in the history of the Philippines because many people are abused and many people were killed in Martial Law. If we look back in the past maybe we are also traumatized because many soldier used power to harm other people.
According to Wikipedia, Martial law in the Philippines refers to several inttermittent periods in Philippine history wherein the Philippine tread of state places an area under the control of the Armed forces of the Philippines and its predecessor bodies. Martial Law is declared either when there is near-violent civil unrest on in cases of major natural disasters, however most countries use a different legal construct like “state of emergency”.
Typically, the imposition of martial law accompanies curfews, the suspension of civil law, civil rights, habeas corpus, and the application or extension of military law or military justice to civilians. Civilians defying martial law may be subjected to military.
As the summary of these essay, Many people are abused and have no rights in the time of martial law because of the Law of the President Marcos. Martial Law is declared either when there is near-violent civil unrest on in cases of major natural disaster.
Guns symbolize “violence” or the Martial Law. Soldiers used guns to harm, killed and abused other people.
HORROR
I WOULD RATHER DIE A MEANINGFUL DEATH THAN TO LIVE A MEANINGLESS LIFE
-CORY
MARTIAL LAW, OUR GREATEST NIGHTMARE
-SHEILA RUBINO-
It’s been a long year when Martial law came at the time president Ferdinand Marcos with it’s controversy world wide, it’s been a year when people suffered when tragedy came in our country but the history and memories are still remembering. Martial law can control any area of military rather than by the police. Some of the victims open and tell to the media or press what happen to them. Many of them are tortured, raped, and force to do what they didn’t want to do. Military are controlling all over the punishment that Marcos didn’t know in Apo on the Wall. While relay and book in past to know and learned something when the time and how is scary Marcos law is.
According to Hannah Bebs Alboot in the poem show that the father is proving to Apo even when he’s not around he can still rule and see what is the movement of his son like of the rules of Marcos he has many alibis whenever he can still see you. Some of the videos that I searched are free but not free at all because they didn’t
express their own life. They were scared even if night or morning because they can still see even if you are inside your house. Base on the poem it served as a testimony for those Flipino’s who came across his period it opened up my eye’s not just me but everyone to see theirs not imagined condition.
Bj Patino has his own denotation to the characteristics to the father as a superior ruler of the family and the child feeling to fear to his father as sign of respect. For my own opinion Bj Patino wrote the poem becase he want us to know and connect in our own ruler in our house or in our family and to open our mind, hearts and eyes to see what happen from the past that every people unite for the freedom of every human. Apo on the Wall shows the real situation concern in the different perspective between millennial and those who lived through Martial Law. Bj Patino advocates reasonably close to the realization of giving importance of looking back to our past.
REFERENCE:
https://dhoommzzy.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/background-apo-on-the-wall-by-bj-patino-is-a-poem-that-talks-about-the-narration-of-a-childs-point-of-view-about-his-rigorous-father-and-the-hanging-photo-around-the-wall-called-apo-the-poem/
"DON'T KILL ME"
-HAZEL SALEN
Martial Law in the Philippines have a big part of our history,because many people had been affected by martial law by that time,September 21,1972 where former president Ferdinand Marcos signed the proclamation No.1081 which placing our country under the martial law.This is where the power of Ferdinand Marcos have being emphasized by means of his way called dictatorship.In that time,martial law accompanies curfews,and some application or extension of military law or military justice.
According to Wikipedia,president Ferdinand Marcos signed the proclamation No.1081 on September 21,1972 placing the Philippines under the state if martial law.Some says that president Marcos signed the proclamation on the date of September 17 or either September 22,but still it was considered as September 21.In our generetion ,21st century,martial law is still remembering in the way such studying it as our history.In the piece we choose to use as readers approach is “Apo on the wall “ where according to bertsnewblog.blogspot,Bj Patino writes the Apo on the wall which is a poem that talks about the narration of child’s point of view about his rigorous father and the hanging photo around the wall called “Apo”.Apo symbolizes president Ferdinand Marcos whose is called “scary Jesus”because of his power and on how he use or apply his power by the means of dictatorship resulting to proclamation of martial law.In the poem “Apo on the wall” martial law was being focused and by means of that poem, even if we can’t experience it,but we are remembering on how people suffer from this big part of our history and on how President Marcos was being called and recognize as scary Jesus.
Martial law is about how our ancestors suffer from this state and on how president Ferdinand Marcos uses his huge power by the means of dictatorship,and proclaiming the martial law.In the other side “ Apo on the wall”reflects on martial law cause maybe its not literally described as martial by its words but fully describes by its meaning so “Apo on the wall”is poem which makes you feel how people feels at that time when martial law exists.The child represents our countrymen or simply us and the picture on the wall represents president Marcos whose once called scary Jesus by the child.The author if Apo on the wall is Bj patino he wrote it for us to open our eyes and mind on what martial law is and he expressed it by the means of writing a poem as poet.
References:
https:/bertsnewblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/apo-on-wall-by-bj-patino-html?m=1
https:/en.m wikipedia.org/wiki/martiallaw-in-the philippines.
“CRISIS”
-MELCHOR LOYOLA-
When Ferdinand Marcos was in the position of being President in the Philippines he have the power what he want to do in his community. He declared Martial Law on September 1972 to force his citizen to obey his command. Like the poem “Apo on the Wall” the father has a dream to his son and it is to become a soldier.
According to the Philippine History Organization, Marcos explained that Martial Law was not a military takeover but was then the only option to resolve the country’s dilemma on rebellion that stages national chaos threatening the peace and order of our country. Martial Law was like the crisis in our country before because citizen was affected and the innocent people were tortured by the police. The poem “Apo on the Wall” tells the reality of life during the reigning of Marcos alongside with the Martial Law. It is a reflection of the scenario of how the Filipino experienced the tragic and traumatic event throughout the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
In life, you need to be strong in every struggles that you will encounter because life is like an ocean it can be calm and still or rough and rigid but in the end it is always beautiful.
http://ww.philippine-history org/martial law-philippines.htm
