#and look at what happened :\ anyway lino brocka was right about the marcoses etc. read mabini's work. fuck the fascists.

[brother-emperors]

APOLINARIO MABINI July 23, 1864- May 13, 1903

VIII Strive that your country be constituted as a republic, and never as a monarchy:  a monarchy empowers one or several families and lays the foundation for a dynasty.

-Mabini’s Decalogue for Filipinos

Skipping pleasantries when introduced to Aguinaldo, [Mabini] asked if the Americans had committed to help Filipinos gain independence from Spain in writing. Aguinaldo had no such commitment. Mabini then ruined the festive mood by saying that the declaration of independence was premature. He criticized the wordy document and its statement that the colors of our flag mirrored those of the US. Worse, the document stated that we owed Philippine independence to the grace of “The Great North American Nation.” That afternoon, Mabini made his first political enemy by replacing Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, author of the declaration of independence, as Aguinaldo’s principal adviser.

Months later, when Aguinaldo submitted Mabini’s appointment as [President] Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the Malolos Congress for confirmation, Rianzares Bautista seized the chance for revenge by exposing Mabini’s physical disability in a newspaper article. Writing under the thinly disguised pseudonym “Zerzarian,“ he asked: “How can a man without feet be appointed or elected to such high office?”

To which Mabini replied: “Does the job of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court require constant walking? No? Therefore, he can be a man without feet, as long as he possesses the brains and able hands for the office.” Not content with that, Mabini gave the dagger a few twists before pulling it out. In an open letter to “Zerzarian,” Mabini, writing under the pseudonym “Paralitico,” said: “Being assured that old age produces in definite persons a sickness at least as inconvenient as paralysis, I shall not bear you any grudges.”

-Mabini: Conscience of the nation, Ambeth Ocampo [the open letter being referenced here is Mabini’s October 5, 1899 letter to Zersarian]

anyway, I love him

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#apolinario mabini #philippine history #listen. listen to me. i love him. Love™ him. #I Am Always Thinking About Him #if i think about him for too long i get so emotional about literally everything ಥ_ಥ #im going back in time and strangling paterno with my bare fucking hands. aguinaldo too tbqh!!! #there's a line that a lot of people echo in texts about machiavelli echo regarding him as a sort of prophet: that but mabini :| #i feel so sad about it too. like. man. what the fuck has this country come to. our revolutionaries fought and bled and died for us #and look at what happened :\ anyway lino brocka was right about the marcoses etc. read mabini's work. fuck the fascists.