Prof. Copernicus thinks I am right (Part 1)

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson

By Alex P. Vidal

NEW YORK CITY -- Around past three o'clock one afternoon inside the cold Central Park, Professor Jozef Copernicus told me he instantly recalled having visited Manila after the 1986 EDSA Revolution.
"It was my first and only visit in your country," the professor mused. "I was a speaker in an international conference held in a hotel by the bay (Manila Hotel?)"
Professor Copernicus thought the Marcos family made the right decision to fly to Hawaii when the mob was already a cinch way from capturing Malacanang Palace evening of February 25, 1986.
The late former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the professor insisted, should also be credited "for aborting a bloodshed that would have tarnished the reputation of your country (as the only Catholic in Asia)."

NO CASUALTY

"It was supposed to be a revolution, right? But why nobody was shot; why no one was killed?" Prof. Copernicus inquired like a classroom teacher doing a recitation test.
"Nobody was killed, yes. There was no bloodshed because President Marcos rejected the appeal of Armed Forces Chief, Gen. Fabian Ver, to shoot the rebel soldiers led by Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and (AFP Vice Chief of Staff) Gen. Fidel Ramos, who were being protected by the People Power," I answered looking straight at both his eyes.
Prof. Copernicus: "And they were also being protected by nuns praying the rosary and holding the statues of Virgin Mary, right?"
APV: "That's correct, Professor! The nuns also gave flowers to government soldiers manning the tanks."

RELIGIOUS

Prof. Copernicus: "Filipinos are mostly Christians and deeply religious by nature?"
APV: "We were the only country in the world that has not experienced a bloody revolution; and basically we are mostly religious, having been Christianized by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 at the time when Martin Luther was starting to spread the protestant movement in Europe."
Prof. Copernicus: "We are talking about the EDSA Revolution, which happened only more than 20 years ago, but you are jumping to the events that happened more than 500 years ago. You are mixing the dates."
APV: "I'm sorry, professor. But they are related to the hypothesis on how we, Filipinos, became a Christian country." (To be continued)