AN OPEN LETTER TO SMF LAPULAPU TAOJO, JR.

AN OPEN LETTER
06 JUNE 2010
TO: SMF LAPULAPU
RE: TEXT MESSAGE SENT TO NF URABANG FORWARDED TO NF JOY OF KABANSALAN AND OTHERS IN IPIL SIBUGAY AND OTHER ITEMS
FM: MF PHANTOM
DEAR SMF LAPULAPU,
AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THERE IS A VERY SERIOUS LEADERSHIP CRISIS IN THE GBI HIGHER ECHELON WHICH WHEN NOT PROPERLY ACTED UPON AND ADDRESSED COULD ESCALATE DIVISIVENESS AFFECTING THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION.
YOUR PRONOUNCEMENT DECLARING THE MINDANAO ASSEMBLY ILLEGAL CORRODES RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE NOT ONLY AMONG NATIONAL OFFICERS BUT OTHER MEMBERS AS WELL.
ATTY.RICHARD “FDR GALAXY” UAYAN AND ATTY. “NF GUESUPE” MALALANG, BOTH ACTIVE MEMBERS AND PRACTICING LAWYERS, AND WHO WERE PRESENT DURING THE ASSEMBLY OPINED THAT IT WAS LEGAL.
IT WAS THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER FOR MINDANAO, ROBERTO “NF ORO” VALCONCHA WHO CALLED THE ASSEMBLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAFTING OUR PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED DURING THE CONVENTION IN OCTOBER 2010.
WHY THESE TWO (2) LAWYERS AFFIRMED IT IS LEGAL, AND WHY YOU INSIST IT IS ILLEGAL, BOTHERS ME MOST.
WHAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE AND CORE OF THIS LEADERSHIP CRISIS? IS IT NOT THAT YOUR ACTIONS IN SEEING BINAY PURPOSELY TO BANK ROLL MINDANAO, LUZON AND VISAYAS WITHOUT INFORMING ME IS THE ONE “ILLEGAL”? DID YOU ASKED MONEY FOR THE SUMMIT?
PLEASE REFER TO THE “UNDATED” COMMUNICATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ACTING PRIME MINISTER DULY SIGNED BY THE THREE (3) OF US, SUBJECT OF WHICH IS : PROHIBITION DURING THE ELECTORAL PROCESS BASED ON MY PROPOSAL BEFORE WE WENT HOME LAST DECEMBER 21, 2009!
ELABORATELY WORDED WITH RESTRICTIONS SUCH AS TO ABHOR AND CONDEMN IN THE VERY HIGHEST TERM, THE ACT OF SELLING VOTES AS A MOCKERY IN OUR DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE! LAST PARAGRAPH READS: “FURTHERMORE, ANY OFFICER OR MEMBER OF THE GBI MAINSTREAM FOUND SELLING HIS/HER VOTE MUST SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS/HER ACT”.
YOU AND THOSE WHO WENT TO SEE BINAY VIOLATED THIS, PURE AND SIMPLE! TO SHOULDER THE EXPENSES OF YOUR SUMMIT IS SELLING NOT ONLY YOUR VOTES, BUT ALSO ALL GBI MEMBERS! IS THIS HOW WE LEAD? “FOLLOW WHAT WE TELL YOU, DON’T FOLLOW WHAT WE DO?” IS THIS NOT A SLAP ON OUR FACE? WHAT A SHAME!
GOING BACK TO YOUR TEXT MSG. TO MR. URABANG, YOU STATED THAT MEANTIME YOU AND JB DO NOT INCLUDE ME IN YOUR MAJOR DECISIONS BECAUSE I SIDED WITH “HOSTILE GROUP”. (XEROX COPY ATTACHED HERETO). BY THE WAY TELL ME WHO IS THIS HOSTILE GROUP YOU ARE REFERRING TO? ARE THEY NOT OUR BROTHER GUARDIANS? AND WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME, NF ORO AND NF PHILOS TO BE NEUTRAL? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “NEUTRAL” ANYWAY?
DID WE SIDE WITH ANYBODY? ARE WE NOT GOVERNED BY DEMOCRATIC OPTION SUCH AS HOLDING OF ASSEMBLIES; TO VOICE OUR OPINIONS, AIR OUR GRIEVANCES? WE ARE IN A DEMOCRACY AND YOU ARE AWARE OF THAT. IT IS EMBODIED IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “GUIDING PRINCIPLES” WE PREACH IN OUR SPEECHES? WE ARE NOT AT WAR, SO THERE IS NO SUCH GROUP THAT IS HOSTILE! WRONG CHOICE OF WORDS!
THE NATIONAL TRIUMVIRATE IS COMPOSED OF THREE MEMBERS. YOUR PRONOUNCEMENT IN NOT INCLUDING ME IN MAJOR DECISIONS IS “MORALLY WRONG” AND A BIG BLUNDER ON YOUR PART! AM I TO BELIEVE GBI IS NOW A “CONJUGAL PROPERTY OF SMF LAPULAPU AND MF JOHNBULL?” WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE “PILLARS” OF THE ORGANIZATION. WE SHOULD LISTEN TO REASON, ADMIT OUR MISTAKES, MAKE AMENDS AND BE SORRY FOR ANY LAPSES, MISDEEDS AND WRONG DOINGS IF ANY, CONSIDERING TOO THAT WE ARE ONLY HUMANS. I TOO HAVE MY OWN WEAKNESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS! YOU KNOW ME VERY WELL, HEAD TO FOOT; INSIDE OUT!
I NEVER EXPECTED YOU WOULD JUNK ME, OF ALL PEOPLE WHY YOU? I admire your principles, I greatly respect you and idolize you as an officer and a Gentleman.
I have in my possession a copy of the Open Letter Denouncing you and expelling you from GBI. The main issue was “INCORPORATING IN THE BY LAWS THE GRANT OF INHERENT POWERS TO THE MASTER FOUNDERS”
This was not given due course by National Officers in attendance arguing among other things that “By INHERENT POWERS you would be the owner of GBI contending Further that by inherent power you are above the GBI by laws, can destroy the reputation of any well-meaning GBI member with impurity, can violate, trample and disregard the GBI Laws!! You were branded a dictator in that Open Letter (hereto attached).
During the Special National Assembly at Molave Hotel, Tagum City, the Constitution and By Laws of GBI was amended and ratified. This time there was no “Inherent Power”, instead a very Special amendment was included; in Sec 1, Art XXI, which reads: ANY MEMBER OR OFFICER OTHER than the officers of the GUARDIANS NATIONAL TRIUMVIRATE (NOW TWOVIRATE and ONEVIRATE) whose conduct or activities are contrary to the By Laws, Rules and Regulation of the Association shall be subjected to Disciplinary Actions”.
This particular issue came up in the Caucus prior to the assembly. The contention of many national officers is that no provisions should be incorporated in the By Laws, that is oppressing and undemocratic to preclude dictatorship and one man rule.
It is for this reason that the priority amendment as proposed for final deliberation during the national convention is the immediate “SCRAPPING” of the above provision cited above.
I hope delegates would ponder deeply and reconsider this issue at hand. If this is not scrapped and repealed whom many believed is not possible because they perceive this to be the “cloak” that shields the triumvirate against culpable violations to the Constitution and By Laws. This is the “STRAW THAT BREAKS THE CAMEL’S BACK”!
I hate to say this but you seem oblivious of the fact that I, NF August and RF Escorial were instrumental in preparing the MANIFESTO submitted to SGF RED KAPUNAN during the PGBI National Convention at Tubod, Lanao del Norte sometime in April of 2001.
All of you joined the PGBI to include the Founding Chapter but when I returned from Saudi Arabia and with the help of these officers you relieved, we managed to restore the lost glory of GBI.
In almost all communications coming from the office of the Acting Prime Minister your signature appears and yet it is public knowledge within the Organization that you are on leave. Almost all the national officers are questioning these acts raising doubts and speculations that there is something wrong so that you conform to the said communications.
Some are very vocal to the point of saying there seems to be a cover up by siding with JB all the way.
I was shamed in front of everybody during the meeting when they asked me if part of the 64k was given to me as my share of the Loot. I told them I know nothing about it. That was the time a copy of the Email was furnished to me.
In all honesty, you have wronged me, you hurt my feelings. Like you, I too have my principles and honor which I will die to defend! You insulted the sanity of the national officers you relieved and who like wounded tigers are fierce and very vocal. They pity me and told me personally they will be with me even if I jump into HELL.
We occupy the topmost position in the association. But remember, on our way down these are the people we will come face to face!
I’m very sorry Sir for this expose. It’s just that I treasure and love GBI above all!
If this would further strain and taint our relationship with doubts then so be it! I’m not closing my door to a possible dialogue with you and JB. Why don’t we talk and discuss things in a civil manner instead of relieving almost all the national officers whose only fault is to express their opinions for the good of the Association? I beg to remain,

Very Sincerely Yours,
ALBERTO “MF PHANTOM” TINOY, 1-12
Dirty Dozen



PS:
Shall we wait for the October National Convention in dealing with this Leadership crises? We have prepared a new CBL for eventual registration with SEC.

If you can’t and will not scrap the IMMUNITY CLAUSE, inclusion of INTERNATIONAL REGIONS then we will pursue our Plans for Self Determination via the Autonomous Parliamentary System of governance with or without you and MF JB, who has to explain to the Guardian’s world his monetary accountability.