Yellow streamers celebrate former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., whose assassination at the tarmacof Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, galvanized the anti-Marcos dictatorship movement that would culminate in the Edsa People Power Revolt of February 1986. (File photo from INQUIRER)
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s comparison of his group’s political struggle in the Senate to the fight waged by the late opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. against the Marcos dictatorship is “laughable,” “insulting” and “delusional,” a progressive group said.
The August Twenty-One Movement (Atom) in a statement on Saturday also called Cayetano “Lapastangan” for invoking the iconic “Laban” sign associated with the anti-authoritarian movement.
“The delusions of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano know no bounds, as he compared their so-called ‘struggle’ in the Senate to that of the fight of Senator Ninoy Aquino against the Marcos Sr. dictatorship,” the group said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
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