Further to our previous entry “Common assault!” we have been sent further clarification on what actually took place (our thanks to the members who provided the info).
Firstly
the meeting in question was Uxbridge Friday night. See below:
Apparently this locale has become a focus of a “Big Book fundamentalist cult” (possibly Primary Purpose - and see here) which has infested the Uxbridge, Slough, Ruislip and Harefield areas (you will note the name Richard E crops up … more on this particularly nasty piece of work later)
The cult
members in question introduce themselves as recoverED (as
distinguished from those who are merely 'recoverING', an inferior
species, something which is made clear in the formers' sharing which
is generally arrogant and “belittles the rest of the fellowship as
being useless etc”). According to our correspondents the woman in
question (whom we will refer to as the 'assaultee' as opposed to
sponsee, and her sponsor as the abuser) was herself a rather
unappealing character (not that this justifies the assault in any
way) who shared that should she fail to phone her abuser at the
precise time the phone would be slammed down on her. Moreover her
abuser did not make suggestions but rather issued “rules and
orders”. The woman's subsequent sharing was “littered” with
numerous quotes from the Big Book whilst the general impression
given was of someone who had been thoroughly “brainwashed”, her
voice even being described as sounding “like a robot”. When time
came for other members to 'share back' as is customary the assaultee
made a point of ignoring those who were 'not on message' and instead
ostentatiously read her Big Book while they were sharing. Clearly
common courtesy does not constitute part of the cult curriculum.
Our
correspondents add:
“But it
does look like cult violence is on the up in AA. There is a thug who
goes to the Friday Hampton Wick cult meeting called Richard . And he has apparently
threatened to "punch the lights out" of anyone who openly
challenges his supreme sponsorial authority. And he is sponsored by
another nutter called Rupert
who has set up yet another cult meeting in Surrey somewhere. A friend
of mine attended it recently and said it was sickening. This is what
happens when the prisoners run the prison, and the lunatics run the
asylum. People come to AA to try and stay sober, not to fight endless
battles with criminal gangsters and sociopathic loonies”.
Richard's
hobbies (apart from threatening to punch people's “lights out”) include
verbal abuse as well as a general liking for getting “physical”.
Apparently he was a gangster in a previous incarnation.
Seems like not a lot's changed there then! An altogether sick and twisted
specimen!
Cheers
The Fellas
(Friends of Alcoholics Anomymous)
PS More to
follow on this …....
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