by Dante C. Simbulan, Ph. D.

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In the course of the brutal hazing, ….there was a case of a plebe that was wounded with a bayonet thrust in the belly by a Class 1937 cadet. Spilled blood was washed away from linen to prevent laundrymen from finding proofs of brutality. Vomits and excretions from the body were thrown into the restroom bowls. Plebes who passed out were carefully nursed back consciousness so that they did not have to be taken to a hospital. All this savagery was known to the cadets, but they hid it from the public and their superior officers… In many ways, humankind finds itself involved in one form of struggle or another. The struggle to be free, for instance, is manifested in past and ongoing struggles in many parts of the world. People struggle to remove and do away with the many fetters which bind them, the blinders of ignorance and superstition inflicted on the weak and powerless which prevent them from seeing the social reality of their existence. They rebel against foreign and domestic economic, political and cultural subjugation – the chains of exploitation and oppression by rulers – all of which reduce them to servants or slaves of the few who rule and dominate their lives. The vast majority of our people, particularly the weak, the unlettered and the powerless, are involved in a daily struggle to survive. For hundreds of years, they have been engaged in a struggle to free themselves from the shackles of poverty and the miserable lives that come with it: from preventable diseases and ill-health, illiteracy and ignorance, dependence on their lords and masters, and the utter lack of genuine participation in determining their future and destiny of their families. We were told that this is the law of life. We have been indoctrinated in the belief that there will always be the poor among us, that some special type of human beings are destined by nature or by a divine being to rule and be the beneficiaries of the bounties of the earth. In my childhood and in my later years, these were the myths that I was told: We must always obey those above us, in society and those in government, for this is how things ought to be. The lowly and the poor must be obedient to those with power and authority.

Price: PHP750.00

ISBN:97897195488

Author: Dante C. Simbulan, Ph. D.

Genre: Biography, Philippine History

Publisher: Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)