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Friday, 20 June 2014

The thugs running the show! Hampton Wick Friday


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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