Philippines Overprint - Inadvertently Amusing?

I collect USA Philippines BOB, but not those of the Republic, and was just sorting through a pile of them, trying to figure out what to do with them, when I found this overprint that struck me as kind of amusing.



I know the overprint was to promote an anti-smuggling drive, but you have to admit, it sounds like President Marcos was confessing.
The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

Truth is
He was smuggling, gold and currency out of the country for the use of himself and his family.
Horamakhet

Should be a semi-postal with the additional cost paying for his therapy...

The "Stop Smuggling" stamp was issued five months into the Marcos first presidency.

A few weeks later REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4712 June 18, 1966, AN ACT AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE TARIFF AND CUSTOMS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES. was approved:

http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/rep...12_1966.html

First day cover cachets for the Anti-Smuggling stamp:





It is interesting to note that in the May, 2013 elections, former First Lady Imelda Marcos won her second term as congresswoman for Ilocos Norte capturing more than 88% of the vote.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/in...vote/1130726

More on Philippines stamp issues at:

http://philphilately.blogspot.ca/

His wife was only interested in shoes

Chimo

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