An Analysis on the Claimed Marcos' Unworthiness
A critical essay in response to Dariwn Mendiola's "Five Reasons why Marcos should not be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani"

"The controversy is not the very act of burying Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani but to or not to consider him as a hero." This is from the article of Darwin Mendiola entitled "Five Reasons why Marcos should not be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani." It mainly states justifications why Marcos cannot be a Philippine hero. These include the violation of the law, wickedness of the Martial Law, regression during the Marcos Regime, difficulty in revising history and exoneration of the Marcoses' past crimes. This precisely written article is clearly one-sided which contains insignificant arguments and irrelevant supports with fallacious statements.

After every given reason, there is a statement to conclude and describe how immoral it is to bury Ferdinand Marcos' remains at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. This proves that the article is against Marcos which makes it biased. In addition, it also doesn't indicate any good happenings on the Marcos regime or at least talk about why people consider Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the LNMB.

The article provided specific examples and situations which occurred during the Marcos' era, making it very precise. However, some of the given examples are unimportant and unrelated to the topic. Particular republic act numbers are mentioned by the author with their content to support his arguments based on the law. Definite number of victims of the Martial Law and statistical data are also present in the article. Terms are also specified such as "imeldific" even if it cannot be correlated with the Marcoses' identities because there is no certainty; making it insignificant.

Many fallacious statements are present in the article due to his