"When Tradition Nine was first written, it said that 'Alcoholics
Anonymous needs the least possible organization.' In years since then,
we have changed our minds about that. Today, we are able to say with
assurance that Alcoholics Anonymous--AA as a whole--should never be
organized at all. Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create
special service boards and committees which in themselves are
organized. How, then, can we have an unorganized movement which can and
does create a service organization for itself? Scanning this puzzler,
people say, 'What do they mean, no organization?'" (Twelve and Twelve,
Tradition Nine, pg. 172)