There is a raging “Stop Marcos” move led by victims of martial rule and they have vowed to carry this out to its logical end, which is to stop Senator Marcos from becoming the country’s vice president. As a victim myself (that Marcos Senior robbed us of our youth is painfully true), my e-mail has been receiving schedules of anti-Marcos protests with the plea to join. A journalist-friend who was also a witness to the brutality of the martial law years, has coined the phrase We Are Back, meaning the victims of Marcos are back to haunt the leadership ambitions of his son and namesake.

I will not vote for the young Marcos even with a gun leveled at my head. But neither will I join the organized protests to derail Marcos Jr.’s vice presidential quest. You know why? The rise of the young Marcos to political respectability has Mr. Aquino, yes, the president himself, as abettor and co-conspirator. Mr. Marcos is expunging the ghosts of the martial law years with assistance from the most unlikely source — Mr. Aquino

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