Bob Stone was a nonaddict who was hired to run a nonprofit corporation just like any other who makes money in the real world. Plans, schemes, money laundering, bank account juggling, public relations, propaganda, are all common business tactics. He wasn't doing anything he wasn't hired to do. He wasn't hired to serve our fellowship, the World Service Office isn't even Narcotics Anonymous, despite so many people's confusion on this issue. It's a business.
He used every tactic he could, with the help of these three other men who are addicts. Who are these men? The very men who illegally got Jimmy out of the World Service Office's Executive Director position because he was standing in their way by refusing to make decisions that they wanted him to make. Why do I say illegal? I have a copy of the bylaws that state that 2/3 of both the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees have to be present at the voting out of the Executive Director from office, and that the Executive Director has to also be advised of the meeting to take such a vote. However, the minutes from this fateful meeting reveal that less than 1/2 of each board was present, and that Jimmy was not advised of the meeting until the next morning when he was locked out of the office when he came to work. I saw both these documents personally.
But why would they want Jimmy out? This ties into my perspective as a grant writer for a few years for the drug treatment centers in Los Angeles. Each of these men started a treatment center for addicts in Los Angeles, in fact, I think the first that ever existed. The Federal Government however, would not give grants at that time to centers that did not host A.A. meetings, used A.A. literature, and had A.A. counselors. Also, these centers advocated as long as nine months in their facilities, something I pointed out earlier that Jimmy strongly disapproved of. Plus, unless their program showed an addict's "progress", i.e., that he had completed a certain number of steps at the end of his treatment, they would also not continue funding ............................

Here's where the head butting came in, and why Jimmy was replaced:
(1) the fellowship owned the copyrights to the Basic Text. It could not be altered in any way, or it's sale price changed, etc., without the fellowship all voting on it. Again, under the old service structure, you can't fool the groups, and they would not consent to some of the things these men wanted to do to serve their financial interests. The Basic Text was not carried for many years, and even now not in great numbers, because the fellowship would not authorize a discount to Hazelden ,the distributor that would make their purchase price any lower than the addict's purchase price on the retail end. Without the discount profit margin, the distributors have no reason to heavily market our book to prisons, shelters and treatment centers. A.A. offers a 60% discount to Hazelden, and you'll find an A.A. book in every prison and treatment centers' library.
(2) These men could not take over the copyrights C.A.R.E.N.A.from Jimmy and alter the White Book, in any way to suit their needs without Jimmy's consent, which he wouldn't give, or without taking over Carena, the corporation that held the copyrights.
(3) The fellowship would not vote in a step workbook so desperately needed in order to maintain funding of drug programs on it's own without leadership in that direction, which again Jimmy said he wouldn't ever agree to because it was wrong. He believed addicts should only work their steps provided to them by their sponsors, and that these workbooks would actually block many from seeking out that vital relationship.
(4) Jimmy also refused to lend the same support that A.A. did to the treatment centers so they could receive their money. Let me give you an idea what I mean - Marty Mann was the first woman to recover in A.A. She wanted to set up an organization to lobby for funding for research and treatment, and to make political changes. This obviously could not be done under the A.A. heading, so she formed the National Council on Alcohol Abuse. This organization receives more money then you can imagine each year that it funnels into research, grants to treatment facilities, the training of counselors, and puts considerable effort into things like making sure alcoholism is covered by health insurance providers. Her name carried a lot of clout because of her sobriety in A.A., so this also won her a lot of grants. Marty's relationship with A.A. was one of "wash my hands and I'll wash yours". But Jimmy wanted no part of any such relationships, thus interfering with these men running these programs, while being on N.A.'s Board of Trustees
So now you know why Jimmy was taken out, and a man who would "play ball" was put in.

Bo Sewell was the first World Literature Chairperson, i.e., the man who coordinated our first Basic Text. He made it clear that when the book was written, the copyrights were put in the name of the members/fellowship, NOT THE OFFICE so that no one person or company would own this book. The copyrights the office held were merely trusts so that they had the legal right to print and distribute the book ONLY. Bo also made it clear that the copyrights were only released by them to the fellowship under the assurance that no one would own the copyrights at any time. (For more on this, check out the History of the Basic Text by Bo at http://www.bosewell.com.)
Since we produced the copyright papers that backed this up in court, the judge saw it clearly that no copyright infringement could be performed by a man who technically had the right to them (the copyrights were in the members' names, and Dave as a member had the right to reprint literature without restriction, and that WSO had no right to restrict his use of the literature).
A settlement hearing was held. Dave told WSO what he wanted in order to settle the lawsuit, and to stop printing baby blues, and promoting non-donations to the WSO. What he wanted is (1) to resubmit the Basic Text back to the group conscience process where control of it could not be wrestled away by these men, and (2) that the copyrights remain in the name of the fellowship where they could also not control our literature, (3) we wanted Bob Stone out of office.
An order was issued to resubmit the Basic Text for a fellowship group conscience process at the WSC floor I think in 1991, The same Yr the concepts were voted in ,coincidence, I think not The order clearly stated that the book was to be given back to the group conscience process at WSC that year - WITHOUT COMMENT OR VOTE.  To date they never had the vote & the Federal court order has never been honored ............... Thats why Were upset ! Rat Bastards stole our Book, & ALTERED IT TO BOOT ,hired professionals to rewrite our literature. .............. ALL ELSE IS NOT N.A.

Stand for Something or Fall for Anything ............Joe P . 1 of the greatest service workers N.A. s ever had .