EDSA ek ek
The following is an article by Magdalena Torres that first saw print 27 years ago, shortly after the “EDSA revolution.” After all these years of celebrating EDSA I, we ask ourselves: What has the Feb. 25 EDSA revolution really done for the Filiinos? It is interesting to note that in spite of the “miracle at EDSA” the people of this only Christian nation in Asia have remained loyal to anyone but Christ. Note the various factions we are thanking for the so called “bloodless revolution.” Believers in the US supremacy maintain that it is the American intervention in Philippine affairs that saved the Filipinos from a bloodbath. Fans of the Enrile-Ramos block insist that the “bloodless revolution” would not have happened without their heroes’ crucial change of heart. Marcos sympathizers assert that there surely would have been bloodshed had it not been for Marcos’ love for his people. A foreign correspondent writes that the television cameras (notably those which recorde