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RET @retviking.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Perspective. Life under a #Dictator. Call, write letters, support those who have lost their work. #BOYCOTT. And prepare. Be frugal. Know where your family is. All.the.time. #PeacefulProtest (peacefully). Don't give up!

Me and 5 guys from college volunteered in the Philippines summer of 1985 at the behest of a classmate from there.
To get supplies we bribed Marcos' guards for cement, rebar, cement blocks, paint... We were followed by Marcos soldiers. I was almost kidnapped. People in bandanas w machine guns came out of the jungle surrounding the small building I was in. I ran down the hill where everyone else was. They lived like that every day and night under Dictator Marcos. He made his own laws. Arrested and killed whoever he felt was a "threat". Teenage boys and men disappeared. No one talked about it they were afraid...