Even Politics have intrigues and rumors, and this time, the buzz is true. Earlier this week, there was a rumor that the Marcoses would go to the wake of the late President which many speculated to be a half truth. But to the shock of many inside the Manila Cathedral, even Journalists and anchors on national TV, Bongbong Marcos and Imee Marcos, both Congressman in their bailwick Ilocos Norte, just suddenly showed up on the steps of the manila Cathedral to pay their last respect to the Philippine Matriarch of Democracy.

There was a quiet tension inside the Church. Many of the friends and supporters of the Aquino family, stared silently on the Marcoses but were never hostile nor disrespectful to the symphatizing Marcoses. But instead, the grandchildren of Cory welcomed the Marcoses with warmth and civility. After a few minutes, the Eldest Daughter of Cory, Ballsy, went on the pew and exchanged pleasantries with the Marcoses, concluding the greeting with a check-to-cheek gesture.

It was an awkward moment, not for the Aquinos’ but for the Marcoses as people stared at them inside the church, and going to pews after pews while the media festered them.

With this, many have been asking, even the rumormongers, uzis and intrigueros, if this is a sign of a future reconciliation. If this is a start of what to become an end of the feuding families that outlined the Philippines in the map of world history.

We can remember that the initiative started when Actress Kris Aquino publicly thanked the Marcoses for offering prayers for their mom on national TV. Hours after that statement, Imelda replied by thanking Kris on the same channel just after her performance, errrr, prayer in the Catholic Church of Tondo.

Who are we to doubt their sincerity nor their intentions? only the most high can read men’s hearts. But we are all given the lesson of history to never trust a snake especially if you were bitten by it before, not only once, but a million times, equal to the figures of those who died and suffered injustice during their dictatorship.

True that if Cory would be alive, she could have easily forgiven them for their transgressions and abuses of power. But it was not only to Cory Aquino, to Ninoy and to the Aquino family whom they owe reconciliation and retribution, but to the rest of the Filipinos who endured their tyranny which scarred our memories by the lashes of vivid images of what seemingly transpired just yesterday.

So to Noynoy, Kris and the rest of the Aquino Family, this is not only your cause, but also our own.

Do not reconcile with the Marcoses, especially with Imelda until…

• they return the millions of dollars of ill-gotten wealth they stole
• they paid for the lives of those whom they destroyed by imprisoning them and sentencing them with or without the thump of gavel in court
• they accept what the history has already written
• they repent for the pomp and extravagance they waisted on endless night of parties in Malacanang while their people are starved, tortured and abused on various prison camps all over the Islands.
• they repay the endless list of human rights violations they’ve committed
• they cough up the real mastermind of Ninoy’s Asssination,
• they paid every drop of blood that were shed on Mendiola and on thousands of remote places where they used to drop the bodies of victims of extrajudicail killings
• they return vast lands they forcefully grabbed from the rightful owners, which should be the farmers and tenants
• they apologize in public all of their crimes
• they rot in jail for the crimes they committed which even their very lives cannot satisfy nor gratify…

No! Noynoy, No! Kris, No! Aquino family, to reconciliation, even if it meant their most sincerest intent. Because mercy is always served by paying first and foremost the price of cruelty and tyranny which is justice. Thats why we have the concept called parole, to give mercy to those who paid their debt to humanity, particularly to the Filipinos. But in this case, has Justice been served? Are they behind bars? Have they returned what they stole? Have they mended the broken lives which they themselves shattered into pieces? Have they paid their debts while Imelda continue to lavish herself with the empty glamour of materialism as she spends thousands of pesos celebrating her God-damned birthday on Hotel Sofitel. Have they?

Reconciling with them is like throwing to the dregs everything that Ninoy died for and everything that Cory lived for….

No! Noynoy, No! Kris, No to reconciliation. This is also our fight as much as yours… Tuloy ang Laban!

Photo from REUTERS / Romeo Ranoco