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If a troll says: "Our life was very peaceful during martial law ... by all means, believe him.  But that doesn't mean that when the family of the martial law victims said he was tortured, or his brother disappeared ... or incarcerated  ... they were not telling the truth.

To best explain the analogy to a troll ... Martial Law can be likened to super typhoon Karding. When people from Mindanao say, "It was sunny when Karding paid the country a visit." That's true. And it is also very true when the eye of the storm was in Central Luzon people tell their frightful stories that Karding wreaked havoc and put their place to smithereens.

#FactsFirstLive: ‘Moving on’ from Martial Law

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We should learn from the lessons of the past. We need checks and balances, especially giving blanket authority to only ONE and only ONE person alone (as in the President's power of declaring Martial Law.)

Atty. Christian Monsod, one of the framers of the constitution has a soundbite that woke us to some rude awakening.  The Supreme Court and Congress especially should have understood the gravity of the situation when ML was declared and the problems that existed.