THIS year, EDSA People Power celebrates its 40th anniversary. It has been 40 years since the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was forced to exit Malacañang with his family under the protection of the United States, which facilitated their exile in Hawaii. Three years later, in 1989, Ferdinand Sr. expired from cardiac arrest after a long battle with heart, lung and kidney problems, presumably arising from his bout with systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune disease, that he hid from the