Extracts
from the aacultwatch forum (old):
“Interesting
reading …..., I wonder if you've ever been to Hampton Wick? Don't
get me wrong, most of the people who share at that meeting carry a
good message of recovery, service and hope, but I was wondering
if you had come across a chap called Billy McN? I know he used to do
Tolworth Newcomers, but now he does Hampton Wick and Richmond
Tuesday. If anyone is a cult thug it's him: he's a salesman by trade,
and you can hear in his sharing that he sells the message well. He
gets a lot of people asking his sponsorship because of his 'sales
pitch'. He often shares about being spiritual and trying to help
others, but once he's your sponsor, it's completely different. He has
proved himself to be an incredibly angry, sick, controlling man.
Newcomers listen to his share and want what he's got, but, the truth
is, what he shares is NOT what he has got! I have personally been on
the receiving end of some of his abuse as a newcomer, all because I
wasn't 'phoning two newcomers each day! I mean, he wasn't even my
sponsor! He will happily label other members of AA as 'sick' or
'half-measures' or 'not on the program', but never looks at himself.
Worst of all, he consciously bullies both newcomers and members
who he considers 'easy targets', and if any of them dare to stand up
to him, or tell him he's upset them, he just tells them things like
"I don't care, you're the one with the resentment, it's not my
problem".
I am
very sorry to say that he is incredibly influential, and, due to his
high number of sponsees, more and more people are indoctrinated with
his view of AA, which is 'you are going to drink and die because you
don't call your sponsor every day!' My friend …...... was
standing-in as secretary at Hampton Wick some weeks ago, and he dared
to suggest that reading the Q&A on Sponsorship leaflet was a
better option than speaking to Sponsorship Co-Ordinators (of which he
is one), and Billy charged at him from the other end of the room,
pulled him to one side and told him to 'stick to the script'! ….....
withdrew from the Richmond Tuesday meeting completely (after Billy
took over the group conscience and selected the new officers himself,
rather than let the group decide) …....
The
ego has landed, and he's at Hampton Wick!”
Cheers
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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