It's martial law, isn't it?

The day the country went under a state of emergency, I was down with a head-splitting migraine.
Can you beat that? Everyone was up and about trying to make heads and tails of GMA's announcement and there was I — in bed! Yeah, I could hardly move — my eyes were blurry and painful. Could be something I ate. Or something I was stressed about. Whatever. But painful eyes and all, I was reading the series of articles dished out by the Philippine Daily Inquirer about those four historic days 20 years ago when Filipinos stood proud in the eyes of the whole world by going to EDSA.
Anyways, 20 years later, at about 9:30 in the morning, I turned on the tv. I was looking for news about the EDSA celebration. People were gathering there in droves, I learned. Boring. I went back to bed.
Around eleven a.m. I asked my son Jairus to turn on the tv and would he please swwitch to channel 2 or 7?  (He's still stuck with cartoon network and disney channel). The radio beside me was also turned on. I heard GMA on radio. I got up and run to where the tv set was. There was GMA announcing that she had put the country under a state of emergency because some elements were trying to destabilize the government. The information hardly sank in, my brain's not working very well because of the migraine (it never does. ask ging of offtheair.prepys.com). I sent jokes about the matter to my friends.
Then the next hours saw the EDSA crowds being dispersed by policemen. Some policemen were hitting people. Some people were hurling stones at the policemen. Some respected persons being arrested. And all these because of GMA. Should we hurt each other because of GMA? Is she worth dying for?
Now, there's news that the Tribune has been padlocked. GMA said she would do that (close news or media outfits)  if they give voice to people saying bad things about the Administration.Is this the start? What's next? The Inquirer?
 May I go back to the day Marcos put the entire country under Martial Law. I was too young to understand that Law. What I remember was this: I had just waken up from an afternoon nap and went out of the house. (Why am I always in bed when history unfolds? When Ninoy Aquino was shot dead, I learned about it when my sister woke me up, saying "Ninoy has been killed." )

An elderly man told me the country was under Martial Law. What does that mean? "It means the country is under military rule." So what now? "You have to be very quiet, many people are being arrested."

The neighborhood was eerily quiet. It was a hot afternoon. I didn't understand a thing.
Now, I do understand these things. Journalists were arrested.  I'm a journalist now. Am I in danger? 

Here's for GMA: You can close all the papers. But not the World Wide Web. Certainly not the blogs?