Sentenced To Alcoholics Anonymous

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Sentenced To Alcoholics Anonymous

There is a town in Massachusetts which is often showing up in Internet
searches of newspapers for people sentenced to A.A. meetings. It is
rather curious, to say the least. Some judges there seem to regard A.A.
as a real cure-all, quite stubbornly ignoring the simple fact that A.A.
has been declared a religious organization by many higher courts. It's
unconstitutional to sentence people to A.A., but those judges do it
anyway.

Where neighboring Salem, Massachusetts once thought that everything bad
was caused by witches, and could be fixed by hanging a bunch of women,
now Westboro, Massachusetts has some judges who seem to imagine that
A.A. meetings will cure everything from drunk driving to brutality,
violence, intimidation, and child pornography. Do the judges imagine
that just getting those nasty criminals praying will somehow reform
them? Is this Faith-Based Punishment, Phase One? (Are the judges
themselves hidden A.A. members and 12-step true believers?)

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There seem to be some judges around Worcester, Massachusetts who really
do believe that Alcoholics Anonymous is genuine snake oil � a magic
elixir that can cure absolutely anything.

There also seem to be some judges who don't give a damn about what is
actually legal or Constitutional.


And another thought that is really disturbing is:
If you go to an A.A. meeting for help with a drinking problem, the guy
sitting next to you might be one of those bad cops or vicious thugs or
unconvicted murdering sexual predators who was sentenced to A.A.
meetings by a judge. Heck, you might even get one of those creeps for
your sponsor.
(Are you really sure that you want to go over to his house for a little
one-on-one Big Book study?)

If A.A. really had any brains at all, they would immediately put a stop
to courts sentencing people to A.A., if only for the protection of the
sincere A.A. members, and for the protection of the A.A. organization as
a whole. But A.A. doesn't have any brains...

The A.A. leadership can't see the stream of court-sentenced criminals as
anything but a bunch of potential new members, and they are all for it.
They encourage it.


The official A.A. publication "The A.A. Grapevine" continues to promote
the idea of coerced A.A. attendance:

At the time of my accident, the deans were assessing how to respond
to student alcohol abuse and were waiting to try out their latest idea,
Alcoholics Anonymous. I was the test case. They told me in no uncertain
terms that I would never get back into this college unless I went to AA.
"Window of Opportunity", AA Grapevine, December 2001, page 39.

The author actually wrote that this was a happy story, a jolly good
thing, that the college administration had done him a big favor by
forcing him into Alcoholics Anonymous. And, by implication, other
universities should also do the same thing to their students. Never mind
the fact that the administration broke the law of the land and violated
that guy's civil rights by forcing him to attend the meetings of a cult
religion. (Not a smart thing for a university administration to do; it
can lead to very expensive lawsuits.) And never mind the fact that as a
treatment program for alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous is a total
failure. The AA Grapevine thinks that coerced A.A. attendance is
wonderful.

In fact, the centerfold of the November 2002 issue of the AA Grapevine
showed that the vast majority of the A.A. members � 61% � had been
"introduced" to A.A. by pressure or coercion from the health care system
or criminal justice system. If the A.A. leadership were to put a stop to
the coercive recruiting, their membership would really shrink. So they
don't put a stop to it.





But this really has to be the best yet:

Woman who pleaded insanity set free.

Saturday, 09-Apr-2005 10:50PM
Story from United Press International

ALAMOSA, Colo., April 9 (UPI) � A woman found not guilty by reason of
insanity of killing her boyfriend and mutilating his body has been set
free in Alamosa, Colo.

Jane Lynn Woodry was deemed ready for a supervised return to society by
a judge after a two-hour hearing, the Rocky Mountain News reported
Saturday.

Woodry was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1993
first-degree murder of Peter Michael Greene. She shot him four times
with a .25-caliber revolver, dismembered his body, wrapped his torso in
a blanket, and stored it in a closet in his home.

She took his legs back to her apartment, where she cut hunks of flesh
from his legs. Investigators found bite-sized chunks of human flesh
prepared in a stew on the stove at Woodry's home.

Conditions for her release also include holding a job, attending
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, writing daily diary cards and a journal
for review by a social worker, and meeting with her case manager three
times a week.

"I want people to know that the community is safe," Woodry said. "I am
not a danger to the community."

Find this article at:
http://news.usti.net/ns/world.law/1/wed/be/Uus-woodry.Rwzx_FA9.html

So, if you go to an A.A. meeting in Colorado, you might discover that
the woman who is sitting next to you is a cannibal...

And once again, when was it established that either Alcoholics Anonymous
or the 12-Step cult religion reduces cannibalism in crazy women?

Or are they just using Alcoholics Anonymous as a free general-purpose
baby-sitting service for psychopaths?


Read the FULL article here:
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-sentenced.html