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  1. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins posted a topic in General Nursing

    the following presentation was given at the may 21, 2004 open forum of the north carolina board of nursing meeting:

  2. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    The following is the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Just whom do you think they...

  3. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Please offer some stats. Which program comes in second

  4. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Stanton Peele's point is that 12-step coercion violates a person's constitutional right to religious

  5. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you think I have a bias against religion? I am a

  6. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I'll be honest, open-minded and willing. I just wanted to ask you a few questions since you posted your credentials and also said you were a long-time member of AA, so I thought you would be...

  7. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Are you the teacher? If so then I am the pupil and I am ready to ask you some

  8. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    anyone who might believe that aa is not religious can read chapter 3 of this book: http://www.morerevealed.com/books/resist/index.html not to mention that numerous federal and state courts have ruled...

  9. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    No, I'm not a nurse. Does that make me ineligible to express my opinion

  10. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Wow!!! Especially the quote by Justice

  11. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    are you saying that it would not hurt anyone to be forced to pray? if so then why would the u.s. state department be reporting on such human rights violations as mentioned below? "in...

  12. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    This link was included in the original link of this thread: http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html In case you don't care to read down it that far it reads "Be it therefore enacted...

  13. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    I was allowed only fifteen minutes to speak and then turned over to the public relations director outside of the meeting. The Executive Director of the Board said she would look into the matter. The...

  14. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, anyone who denies that prayer is religious is definitely playing a game of semantics. "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...

  15. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever considered that the American treatment system may be harmful rather than helpful? Many writers claim that it is harmful including Dr. Stanton Peele, Dr. Herbert Fingarette, and Dr. Jeff...

  16. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    recall that in post # 18 mjlrn97 wrote: "frankly, i think this whole topic is a smokescreen to enable the subject of the op to continue to live in denial" perhaps mjlrn97 or anyone else from the...

  17. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    those are some excellent points, lemonhead. when elkpark writes: "the comparison to property rights is a good one. we have a right to due process protections relative to real property that we have...

  18. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Does that horrendous relapse rate also include those who have been through formal addiction treatment? When you say "we professionals" are you talking about nurses in general or are you talking about...

  19. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    yes, i got a reply. here it is in case you missed it: "tommy. thank you for your email.the issue you asked about is an outside issue to na, and na has no opinionon any outside issue. how or why a...

  20. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

  21. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    Which

  22. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    so na claims coercion is an outside issue, yet they publish guidelines for cooperating with coercion: http://www.na.org/bulletins/bull31.htm just as does aa:...

  23. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    well then, let's take a very close look:"-----original message-----from: steve sigmansent: friday, december 21, 2001 9:43 amto: jeff gershoffsubject: re: coercion: attn. mr. gershoffhi tommy. thank...

  24. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    My point was that Lemonhead made an excellent point. Furthermore, AA's cooperation with coercion has turned AA into a penal colony, thus they cooperate with this coercion at their own peril. There...

  25. 12-Step Coercion

    tommyperkins replied to tommyperkins's topic in General Nursing

    here are a couple of recent examples of the types of people you might meet at an aa meeting: http://athensreview.com/articles/2004/06/11/news/news08.txt...