Overview
If there will be a search for the best lap dogging in Philippine politics, Mayor Pengson can be the best contender. No wonder his son Louie can hardly swallow it. When placed side by side, Louie's and his father's outlook in life best fits a juxtaposition of ironies. The son inherited the activist-gene of his father; the latter shed it off in exchange for the new found glories of a traditional politician. It seems that Louie and his American girlfriend, Pam Snorton, will pay for the sins of the old man later. This is the time after Ferdinand Marcos had martial law as his wisest option in then chaotic Philippines - his tool also in his try to perpetuate his power. This is when he said it was the way of attaining his political line "this nation can be great again". The Nixon White House seem to be much 'aware' of it; making its fight with the communists a lot easier, while its interests were focused on 2 billion dollar investments and of course, the two US Military Bases in Clark, Pampanga and Subic, Zambales in the Philippine island of Luzon. The era when The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, and other singing groups that complemented the "British Invasion" had great influence to the Filipino youth alongside the Leninism-inspired themes, which had to be but cut short when Marcos closed down the media networks and deprived his people of access to entertain themselves. Get ready to suppress your emotion as you will gasp for your breath reading "The Sins of the Fathers" when its future was very far from the Internet and the accompanying social media forms of today.
- | Author: Raf Echanova
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 142 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1497465281
- | ISBN-13: 9781497465282
