It does sound like you're basing your opinions on certain individuals. GI3 and other shall we say, "strong personalities", were kicked out 15 years .
George was never a part of GUE.
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It does sound like you're basing your opinions on certain individuals. GI3 and other shall we say, "strong personalities", were kicked out 15 years .
George was never a part of GUE.
And you thought that my post would be the time to disassociate GI3 from GUE after many posts about him in a thread about "GUE and Halcyon"?
GI3 was part of the WKPP and conceptualized DIR with Main, JJ, etc. GUE was formed to distance itself from what DIR had become through GI3, etc. However, apparently that was only strictly in a business sense and strong ties continued behind the scenes. Of course, I wasn't there. I believe you were. I paid attention at the time and later because I was interested in GUE without the drama, and my eyes were opened by people who were there. As I'm sure you know, they enjoyed the free publicity and didn't mind GI3's internet persona to a large extent, and enjoyed strong friendships.
Do we need to resurrect the old email chains from 2005 or so that might still be archived on SB with all the squabbles and accusations back and forth between GI3, GUE, and AG that led to AG being booted out? BTW, I believe I still have copies of the email chains from back then on a backup of an old hard drive.
Was that because GI3 had nothing to do with GUE? He was still behind the scenes.