In case anyone wants to read Unrelenting, Amazon has dropped the price on the digital and physical copies of his book down to $14/$23 - a huge discount - because of his banning and the subsequent lawsuits.
Someone named Tom Ellison has posted on the COTH article page that JS is lying about being abused and that JS told him about his plan to take down GM back in the 90’s and that he and his brother have been scheming for years to pull it off. He says that he will testify on GM’s behalf about what Soresi had been talking about doing for years and claims that because he’s been close friends with GM since the late 70’s, everything that has been said about GM being sexual with children and abusing them is nothing but lies.
Really? Pay for it? So he benefits financially?
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I was thinking the same thing. Just creeped me out every time it popped up.
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He has some very wealthy relatives. Ever heard of Morris Communications in Augusta Ga?
At those prices, he doesn’t really benefit financially, since the royalties he gets are going to be a small percentage based on the sale price of the book, the IRS then taxes the meager earnings, and he hasn’t made any real money off of the book anyway, since it’s not a high seller and has likely only had a single print run from the boutique publisher. For digital, it may be significantly less than what he would get for the physical editions, depending on what Amazon has worked out with the publisher. All of his books are available used, in great quantity, on the Amazon Marketplace for next to nothing, so you can always get them there if you want, which gives him no profit whatsoever.
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I wish Tom luck with his tall tales.
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Excellent point.
I bought it when it came out and it took me quite awhile to get through it. The timeline was hard for me to follow, plus GHM’s personality seemed so vapid. The allusions to his exploits didn’t bother me because I must have assumed they were all with consenting adults and, hey, it was a boink and let boink kind of world then…if you were of legal age, that is. What did bother me at the time, though, was that GHM seemed to have less feelings for his horses than F1 drivers have for their race cars. That really turned me off.
With the current info about him, though, I’m disgusted by the whole thing and wish I hadn’t paid for it.
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Excellent point.
I bought it when it came out and it took me quite awhile to get through it. The timeline was hard for me to follow, plus GHM’s personality seemed so vapid. The allusions to his exploits didn’t bother me because I must have assumed they were all with consenting adults and, hey, it was a boink and let boink kind of world then…if you were of legal age, that is. What did bother me at the time, though, was that GHM seemed to have less feelings for his horses than F1 drivers have for their race cars. That really turned me off.
With the current info about him, though, I’m disgusted by the whole thing and wish I hadn’t paid for it.
Having wealthy relatives that aren’t your parents doesn’t mean much. They would have to be willing to back him financially and they certainly didn’t step in to help him when he had to sell the Hunterdon farm and his belongings.
He’s 85 and his supporters are complaining that he can’t make a living. I think it’s doubtful that his relatives are supporting him financially.
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No.
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:lol: same.
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I haven’t followed this. Would someone please briefly explain why everyone is so sure he’s guilty.
Yes I am just too lazy to read 235 pages.
Other - Obviously child abuse of any kind is horrific and the perpetrator(s) should be punished. I don’t know GM. I’ve never ridden with GM. I don’t know anyone who has. I have no idea whether he is or is not actually guilty I’m simply curious why so many are so certain of his guilt.
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No. I think you can do some very very light lifting and at least read or move on.
And again, demonstrating why we absolutely need oversite from outside of our bubble.
Wow.
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Wow indeed. What an utterly rude person you are.
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Goodness, your skin must be paper thin.
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He’s not ‘guilty’ of anything since ‘guilt’ is a finding of a court. An allegation was made that he violated the rules of a club. There was in investigation into that allegation and it was found that he most likely did violate the rules of the club, so the club kicked him out. He requested an arbitration hearing, which he got and which agreed with the original finding so he stayed kicked out.
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No reason why would have heard of them. They are and have been around, but you wouldn’t know them unless someone pointed out their businesses to you. Their media businesses have been in steady decline over the past twenty years, so they have off-loaded many of them to raise money and transition to real estate and financing and more “big money business”, with international funding.
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Thank you for your answer.
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Not quite paper, lets go with poster board.
