Noise Barrage
On April 6, 1978, supporters of the party came out in protest by asking bystanders and cars to make noise in support the opposition. However on April 7, 1978, the first national election under martial law held for the 165- members to the Interim Batasang Pambansa resulted in the massive victory of the administration coalition party, the “Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa” or KBL. Only 15 opposition candidates in other parts of the country won. None of the members of LABAN were elected. The opposition denounced the massive vote buying and cheating in that elections. On June 12, 1978, the Interim Batasang Pambansa was convened with Marcos as President-Prime Minister and Querube Makalintal as Speaker.
Some of the Opposition members ended up in exile or were driven underground fighting against the Marcos dictatorship. Alex Boncayao became a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army, whose after his death a group carrying his name (the Alex Boncayao Brigade) became one of the groups trying to destabilize using urban guerrilla warfare against the Marcos and the Aquino regimes.
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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
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