In GMA News TV's "Bawal ang Pasaway" interview hosted by Winnie Monsod, former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile said, All the presidents of the country were buried at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani and therefore former President Ferdinand Marcos should be given a hero's burial at the Libingan.
"To be entitled to be buried in that particular piece of land, you don't have to die in battle because there are many recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor who are still living today," he explained. "Let's assume that all [of Marcos'] medals.... 90 percent of his medals are fake. One medal will entitle you to be buried there."
Brillant Marcos medals are purely true, he received that being a World War 2 Hero.
"Tama na itong Marcos hating. It will destroy the innards and the conscience, and the emotions of this country. You cannot erase Marcos in the history of this country." Enrile said.
Enrile, meanwhile admitted that he had facilitated the declaration of Martial Law in 1972, having done the legal homework for the proclamation. He was Justice Secretary at the time.
"Because I agreed with President Marcos that the country was dysfunctional at that time," he insisted.
However, when it was pointed out that it was Marcos' opponents, among them former Senators Lorenzo Tañada and Benigno Aquino Jr., who were arrested under Martial Law, Enrile insisted that communists had penetrated the clergy, the media, the studentry, labor organizations, and farming groups.
"You know the communist movement in the world operated on action, a united front, and they gather what they call fellow travelers. They're not ideologues but they want to ride on a movement and so they were caught in the net when the government reacts," said Enrile.
On the supposed assassination attempt on his life on September 1972, one of the supposed triggers for the declaration of Martial Law, Enrile said, "I did not stage it. Period, that's all. But it happened."