I want to share with everyone this recent short blog entry by Butch Dalisay who was also once part of the underground movement during the Marcos Sr. regime. I hope that his experience, as having been part of the movement in the past, help provide nuance to everyone. His advice?
>“Fifty years ago we may have had little choice but to go underground; today we have civil society to embrace your causes. Call me defeatist, cowardly, or myopic, or even a comfort to the enemy; but I remain alive and fighting for truth, justice, and freedom the best ways I can, which include what I’m telling you now—the strongest weapons are in your hearts and minds, not in your hands.”
My question: why can we not be Rizal? Besides, both Bonifacio and Rizal died for the Filipino people anyway.