The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos per cent of all production and the tax-free 40 per cent will be divided so that each American corporation receives 32.5 per cent and each local company 7.5 per cent, x x x "The symbiotic relationship between the martial regime of Marcos and the American multinationals are very real indeed. Marcos has given and continues to give giant foreign investors, particularly American multinationals, a stake in the stability of his martial regime. The foreign investors are supposed to act as sentinels for the regime against any move to destabilize Marcos by either domestic or foreign elements. In exchange, Marcos is bargaining away the national patrimony. In the light of the commanding role of foreign capital in the Philippines, the Filipinos are being steered irreversibly by the dictator towards the de-nationalization of the national patrimony and near total dependence on foreign capital for their livelihood.
Chapter XV Spineless Judiciary Legitimizes A Pretender The existence and operation of the Supreme Court and other adjuncts of the judiciary is the best argument against martial law in the Philippines. Unfortunately, however, it is the judiciary itself, notably the Supreme Court, which sustains them unwelcome life of, and cloaks with legitimacy, the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Upon the other hand, Marcos can no longer legally style himself as "the President of the Philippines.*' His constitutional term in office expired a long time ago - on December 30, 1973. Neither can Marcos claim to be President under the so-called "new Constitution." The Filipino people never validly ratified this new Constitution. The Supreme Court itself said so.*1 (*1. Javellana vs. Executive Secretary, et al, G.R. Nos. L-36142, L-36164, L-36165, L-36236 and 36283.)
Marcos is a usurper. He is at best a "de facto" ruler who holds power in a tragic demonstration of a slogan coined by Marcos' new idol, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of China, that "power flows from the barrel of a gun." In a collective sense. Marcos' gun consists of the terrifying guns of martial law. Marcos, the man on horseback, and a supine and spineless Supreme Court that has no logical reason for being under a martial regime are engaged in a treasonous conspiracy to deprive the Filipino.people indefinitely of their civil liberties. Marcos and the Supreme Court have struck up a "you scratch my back, I scratch your back" relationship. The Marcos-Supreme Court "modus vivendi" may be akin to the relationship between a killer-kidnapper and his wretched hostage who has become cooperative in telling the neighbors what a swell and legit guy his captor is just because the kidnapper had promised not to harm him while waiting for the ransom money. Primitivo Mijares
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