Since there is no treatment center, or as they call it today, rehab center for this, we'll just modify the Twelve Steps for "Shriners Anonymous."
The best part?
This could be set up through the Shriners' Employee Assistance Program.
Seriously.
We saw that immediate past Imperial Potentate, Bernard Lemieux, M.D., tried to do an intervention of sorts by appointing a committee to investigate self-destructive dysfunctional behaviors that, if not changed, will destroy the Shriners and their ability to continue to provide free medical care to burned and crippled children.
So where do we start?
With Step One, of course!
Step One says "We admitted we were powerless over the politics of the Shrine - that our lives had become unmanageable."
This helps us recognize that we have hit rock bottom and to do so puts us on the path to recovery. Rock bottom can be defined as:
* violating conflict of interest policies and IRS "excess benefit transaction" regulations by hiding free trips from a former contractor
* conspiring to violate employment confidentiality and influence negative employee evaluations in order to remove an executive in retaliation for not supporting self-serving business deals
* knowingly executing fraudulent tax returns
* pushing for contracts with a vendor who kept $43 million out of $47 million raised for the hospitals
* not reprimanding and, instead, like lemmings off a cliff, re-electing leaders who used their positions of public trust for private gain
Step Two says: "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
This should be a no-brainer as these guys are Master Masons, who admit to believing in a power greater than themselves. About the word "sanity?" Is it crazy or just plain greedy to exploit burned and crippled children for your own gain?
