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Making Sense of Duterte's Martial Law

Last I checked, only two presidents have ever had the gall to declare it and both were vilified in our history -- Ferdinand (FM onwards) and Gloria (GMA onwards). Well, that's until Duterte (PDU30 onwards) dared to become a President with no comparison and declared a limited yet encompassing Martial Law declaration (over the entire island of Mindanao) as recent as Wednesday May 24, 2017. It's so fresh off the press I wonder why some people have already created negative responses about it. Courtesy: GMA Network Are these patterned thoughts? Canned responses? Taught anxiety? Legit concerns? Inner self truths? First hand experience dilemma? Regardless, howling after any new policy even before it sinks or rise on its own merit is utter foolishness. And don't get me started with ML (ML onwards) not being a new policy at all because of the FM and GMA template. There is insurgency in Mindanao in a scale not even Marcos or Gloria could imagine (one GMA couldn't