In Part I we covered a lot of background.
We referred to an infamous Marc Fisher
expose of sexual and psychological abuse by the infamous "Midtown Group" of the otherwise reputable Alcoholics Anonymous:
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But according to more than a dozen young people who structured their lives around the group, the unusual adaptation of AA that Michael Quinones created from his home in Bethesda became a confusing blend of comfort and crisis. They described a rigidly insular world of group homes and socializing, in which older men had sex with teenage girls, ties to family and friends were severed or strained, and the most vulnerable of alcoholics, some suffering from emotional problems, were encouraged to stop taking prescribed medications.
Kristen, now 26, said that for eight years, she was "passed along" from one middle-aged male leader of Midtown to another. She said her sponsor urged her to have sex with Quinones -- widely known as Mike Q. -- as a way to solidify her sobriety and spiritual revival. Kristen, who spoke on the condition that her last name not be used in keeping with AA traditions, also recalled helping to persuade other teenage girls to sleep with older men in the group.
"I pimped my sponsees out to sponsors," she said, referring to the AA members who agree to watch over a fellow member's sobriety. "I encouraged them to sleep with their sponsors because I really believed that this would help with their sobriety."
Rianne McNair, who left Midtown in 2005 after three years in the group, said, "Several of my friends had sex with Mike Q. One of my friends went to the beach house, and her sponsor assigned her to Mike Q.'s bedroom. The younger girls looked up to these guys; Mike is idolized, like, 'I got invited to Mike Q.'s house for dinner tonight. Can you believe it?' "
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Whatever are poor Kristen and Rianne talking about? And what has this to do with Love, or with Espionage?
I never could tell the difference between love and espionage, I keep telling people, and in the modern day, very few people can, in an age where people vanity-google themselves and quite likely google everyone they meet. Some go farther, using such firms as ChoicePoint and Lexis-Nexis.
One of the problems with this is so-called "neighborhood activists". I'm one myself, having been active since 2002 or so in a "community-policing" themed "Mid-County Neighborhood Initiative" or "MCNI".
MCNI was partially funded by the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, through what eventually came to be known as the "Collaborative Supervision and Focused Enforcement" program. This was intended, originally, to provide additional funding for police strike forces concentrating overtime in limited areas where crime was getting out of control. Additionally, it was meant to provide funding for overtime for parole and probation officers, so that they could do a better job of preventing recidivism. In terms of enhancing the ability of parole and probation officers to help prevent or detect recidivism, or violation of terms of probation or parole, this is widely considered an unqualified success. Yet while that was a clear success, and while the "P-CAT" strike forces that saturate high-crime districts are a clear success, other elements of the so-called "community policing" approach has not worked out very well in terms of suppressing certain classes and types of crime.
Simply stated, the people who were already calling the police when they saw crimes in progress or knew of crimes that had been committed, are still calling the police for this. All that has changed is that more officers have been assigned, internal to the police department, to collect these reports and appropriately forward them within the department. Where it has proven less than successful is that various groups that really should be either ignored, or suppressed, are getting the willing ear of police officials who really ought to know better.
Churches, for example, are not supposed to be law-enforcement agencies, especially when their criteria for reporting amounts to "not living the Christian lifestyle we require".
It gets even worse when it's not even the whole Church, or much of any part of that Church. When it gets really bad is this: When the people making the reports make the reports only about drugs and alcohol... and when the people making the reports are a deeply discredited regional group of Alcoholics Anonymous known as "the Midtown Group" or "Group Q".
Here's how it works:
"Group Q" higher leadership -- the exact "older men" decried in the Marc Fisher expose -- are looking for victims. Being older men, they can definitely make rather complex and subtle plans. Being former addicts and alcoholics, they know the ways of the addicts and the foibles and weaknesses, and they know how to exploit them. They also know how to exploit the police and the courts, having generally had considerable experience of both. Probably most of the "Group Q" or "Midtown Group" higher-ups were initially brought into that group of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous due to court order.
Until quite recently, it was very commonplace for courts to sentence low-level or first-time offenders to attend meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous as an alternative to incarceration.
Most of these judges were not at all aware that they effectively were sentencing people to join a Cult.
In Griffin v. Coughlin (Conlon, Leon S., Griffin v. Coughlin: Mandated AA meetings and the establishment clause, Journal of Church & State; Summer 1997, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p. 427, 28p.), the US Supreme Court determined that AA ("Alcoholics Anonymous") is in fact a religion, or performs the services and function of a religion, so if you'd really rather do time in prison rather than spend time with a Cult of Former and Not-So-Former Dopers, just point this out to the judge. Most people choose to join the Cult or pretend to join the Cult.
Interestingly enough, the AA/NA cult also grants a unique immunity to law-enforcement; in theory at least:
July 31, 2001, United States District Court Judge Charles Brieant overturned the manslaughter conviction of Paul Cox because Cox had "shared" his memories of two murders with other Alcoholics Anonymous members at an A.A. meeting, and then one of those members turned him in. And at the trial, other A.A. members were subpoenaed and forced to testify against Cox.
The District Court Judge ruled that Cox's confession at the A.A. meeting was protected and inadmissible evidence, just like Catholics' confessions to their priests are protected and inadmissible in court. Judge Brieant cited a 1999 federal appeals court declaration that Alcoholics Anonymous is a religion. And then the judge threw out the conviction because it was based on inadmissible evidence.
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An appeals court has overturned Judge Brieant's ruling on the grounds that Cox was not seeking religious counselling when he confessed to murder — some of his confessing to fellow A.A. members was done immediately after the A.A. meeting, and was not done while "seeking spiritual guidance".
The general opinion is that this now opens the door of the 12-Step clubhouse to legal intrusions, and anything you say in a 12-Step meeting could be, or might be, used against you in a court of law.
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24 February 2003:
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Paul Cox. The appeals court had stopped short of deciding whether AA conversations were protected as religious speech, ruling only that the court record of the case failed to establish that Cox communicated with fellow AA members to seek spiritual guidance. The Supreme Court denied the appeal Monday without comment or hearing oral arguments in the matter, thus letting stand the decision of the appeals court.
So, as near as anyone can tell, whatever you confess to the Cult, within the bounds and limits of a meeting of the Cult, is between you and the Cult, and inadmissible in court... unless you make the confession outside a called meeting of the Cult as it performs its functions.
Nobody seems to quite understand that when you are in a 12-Step Meeting, you're not confessing to a lone individual as in the case of a Catholic confession to a priest. You're confessing to a group of people who all have freely admitted that they have drug and/or alcohol problems that destroyed their lives so badly that only seeking the spiritual salvation of a Higher Power in an AA or NA meeting can possibly help them.
If you're a police detective or any other sort of law-abiding law-enforcement, you'll certainly hear a lot of gruesome stories and get lots of juicy details about lots of people, but why bother? Most of it can't be used in court, and cases where your information gets sourced back to an AA or NA meeting are very likely to be tossed out. It's not worth the time, trouble, or gut-wrenching horror stories or the emotional wringers people get run through.
If you're one of the elder men in the Midtown Group (aka "Group Q"), listening to this stuff is a smorgasbord of all-you-can-eat insight into the lives and habits of potential victims.
Here is even more of how it works:
People have life-cycles which are generally pretty predictable. They are born, go to school, grow up, and usually they get jobs, get married, have kids, repeat as necessary on one variation of theme or another.
Dopers and alcoholics, as a subset of "people", have life-cycles which are equally as predictable.
Look at it this way: If you're one of those older "career dopers" in the Midtown Group, "Group Q", or as-yet unknown or as-yet unnamed groups that operate the same way, here's the plan.
1) Some Kid starts "using". Alcohol, dope, all-of-the-above, it doesn't matter. Just mark them down in your little black book.
2) Some Kid gets busted for "using". (Maybe you have found or made a way to make that happen.) Check the records for their court dates. Show up as a friend of the Court, and tell the Court all about how you represent a large and very successful AA/NA ("Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous") group, and how terrible it would be for Some Kid to get thrown in the slammer for five to ten years, your AA/NA group stands ready to provide them the guidance they need, etc etc.
3) Rather than do five to ten years in prison, Some Kid begs the mercy of the court, and all unknown, begs the court to sentence them to a lifetime in a cult.
A cult that you run.
Even more of how it works:
The only two things known to make brainwashing 100-percent successful are addiction or religion.
If you can combine and orchestrate the two, human souls become plastic, putty in your hands, to mold as you wish.
[ ... ] They described a rigidly insular world of group homes and socializing, in which older men had sex with teenage girls, ties to family and friends were severed or strained, and the most vulnerable of alcoholics, some suffering from emotional problems, were encouraged to stop taking prescribed medications.
Kristen, now 26, said that for eight years, she was "passed along" from one middle-aged male leader of Midtown to another. She said her sponsor urged her to have sex with Quinones -- widely known as Mike Q. -- as a way to solidify her sobriety and spiritual revival. Kristen, who spoke on the condition that her last name not be used in keeping with AA traditions, also recalled helping to persuade other teenage girls to sleep with older men in the group.
"I pimped my sponsees out to sponsors," she said, referring to the AA members who agree to watch over a fellow member's sobriety. "I encouraged them to sleep with their sponsors because I really believed that this would help with their sobriety."
Rianne McNair, who left Midtown in 2005 after three years in the group, said, "Several of my friends had sex with Mike Q. One of my friends went to the beach house, and her sponsor assigned her to Mike Q.'s bedroom. The younger girls looked up to these guys; Mike is idolized, like, 'I got invited to Mike Q.'s house for dinner tonight. Can you believe it?' " [ ... ]
If you were one of those older men, the leadership of a Cult exploiting and preying upon younger women and even teenage girls with substance abuse problems, who had been remanded into your "care" by an unwitting court that didn't know they were effectively sentencing people to become Cult victims, do you think that you would let anyone or anything get in the way of you diong exactly as you wished for as long as you could?
No, you wouldn't let anything get in the way of that, now would you.
And rather than be exposed, almost all of your henchemen and probably most of your victims would help you do anything you needed done...
So that the victimization could continue and expand and deepen, not unlike the venues and clutches of the Cult itself.
But what of those who know the score, know the ropes, know the members, know the organizers, know the leadership of the organizations that provide meeting places for a notoriously mobile and "non-based" recovery movement? These aren't the people who are on the inside... those are bad enough.
What of those who make it all run like clockwork... finding Some Kid and working them into the Cult, and reaping all of the benefits:
[ ... ] Kristen, who spoke on the condition that her last name not be used in keeping with AA traditions, also recalled helping to persuade other teenage girls to sleep with older men in the group.
"I pimped my sponsees out to sponsors," she said, referring to the AA members who agree to watch over a fellow member's sobriety. "I encouraged them to sleep with their sponsors because I really believed that this would help with their sobriety." [ ... ]
These men aren't in AA or NA... they're in the position of being the fathers of Some Kid and they wind up sleeping with Some Kid's best friend who also got busted at the same time for the same thing. Thus, permissiveness with one's own children lures in the children of others... to be turned into brainwashed sex slaves frequently by the order of local courts.
And when they're done with them, they are cast aside, discarded.
Look around you, Montgomery. And if the heat comes back on you hard, or you see it coming back hard on someone else for nosing around the edges of this, you'll know that something's going on.
Your poor teenage drug addicts are being turned into the meat for older sex-addicts.
More to come?
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