Comment:
Well here comes yet another version of the guidance on this
particularly contentious subject. Who knows! Maybe if enough
suggestions are proffered in the direction of sexual predators, cult
thugs etc they might sit up and pay attention.... or then again maybe
they won't.... they haven't so far. The problem isn't lack of
guidance - it's lack of implementation. You can make up as many
'rules' as you like but if no one can be bothered to apply them then
it's all so much hot air …... And in the situation where the
sponsor is themselves the perpetrator, or the group (cult) has made
bullying the 'norm' (eg. Plymouth Road to Recovery including
Plymouth Intergroup), then you are well and truly stuffed. Until AA
adopts a formal complaints procedure which applies right across the
entire fellowship (and before the usual defence is raised about group
autonomy take a look at what Tradition Four ACTUALLY
says) then the thuggery will continue. And maybe while we're about
reviewing our own conduct perhaps it's time for the yellow card to
be consigned to the bin where it properly belongs. It encourages an
entirely false sense of security in newcomers (who haven't yet
'wised' up to how pointless it is) and affords a perverse protection
to those who seek to hide behind it ie. sexual predators, cult
bullies and the like....
Cheers
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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