General Update On Söring, Book, Etc.
Söring tours the country, meets skeptical reaction on streaming.
My Söring Book
Hello everyone, here’s a general update. First of all, the German translation of my Söring book is coming along. I’ve translated and done a first editing run on it, and now two German native speakers have kindly offered to proof-read it, which is underway now. I’ve tried to get some literary agents interested in it, but so far no takers. The irony is when I pitched the book back in 2021, many publishers said they were uncomfortable with a book which questioned Söring’s innocence claims, which were then widely accepted as true. Now, publishers think the case is old hat; everyone knows his version is false, so it doesn’t need to be “debunked” again. I’m the victim of my own success!
Nevertheless, I think there’s still a market for the book in German. Not only that, I think it’s important to have it available as a general resource for readers. If necessary, then, I’ll self-publish it. I always have to chuckle when one of the few dozen Söring supporters left accuses me of trying to “profit” from my coverage of the case. If you divide the thousands of hours I put into research, writing, and translating the book by the revenues I’ve received, I earn about €.10 an hour. It’s a labor of love, but I still get so much positive feedback I’m happy to plug away. Needless to say, I will keep everyone informed of where the project stands.
What’s Söring up to?
Söring has settled into a routine. He is touring bars and restaurants in Germany with a lecture series called “Behind the Mask of Evil”. In the show, he describes what life is like in British and U.S. prisons and profiles some of his more notorious fellow prisoners, such as the man who built the bomb that brought down Air India Flight 182. Söring also posts shorts to Tiktok, Facebook, and Instagram pretty much every day, usually revolving around prison life. As you might expect, he describes American prisons in the harshest possible light, earning the usual sort of reactions: “OMG, and they call themselves a civilized country!” or “These Americans are vengeance-obsessed barbarians. I’m glad to live under the rule of law.”
Söring has recently significantly toned down his innocence complaints. Whenever he posts about the sockprint or DNA or Elizabeth, 25% the comments are: “This is all old hat, why don’t you move on with your life?”, and 25% are “I don’t believe this guy.” Söring responds to the most provocative 1/3 of comments, whether positive or negative, often with heavy sarcasm. Söring even sometimes gets pushback on comments about prison life. When he recently pointed out that American prisoners are expected to work and are paid trivial wages for doing so, several commentators pointed out that the same is true in Germany. Learning a trade and the discipline of a daily routine is part of rehabilitation, after all, and taxpayers can hardly be expected to pay for criminals to watch YouTube all day. The primary payment for prison labor isn’t cash, which has limited use behind bars, but time off your prison sentence.
On tour, Söring lectures on the same subject night after night, then opens the proceedings for a round of questioning on “any topic at all” except his finances and current personal life. In a recent short feature (starts at 5:35) on German public TV about his lecture series, Söring said most of the questions were no longer about his case, but more about prison life and general questions about criminal justice. He said he greeted this development. The mainstream media no longer show any interest in Söring’s innocence narrative. His most recent appearance was on a 3 and 1/2 hour livestream with a German YouTuber named Rohat Alakom which was broadcast under the title “I INVITED A MURDERER!”. The hosts, affable gym-bros, knew little about the case and didn’t seem particularly convinced by Söring’s story.
Söring’s lecture-circuit life seems pretty exhausting. He appears to be traveling mostly by the notoriously unreliable Deutsche Bahn. He is speaking in very small venues, mostly restaurants or bars, sometimes small event spaces. He has canceled some dates out of “exhaustion”. Many people are wondering why he has chosen such a strenuous way of making a living. I certainly don’t know, perhaps Söring just likes being onstage and the center of attention.
As for me, I’m focusing more on writing and YouTube these days. I just published a major piece on the allegations against Michael Jackson and was invited to go on Megyn Kelly to discuss it. My YouTube videos on the Söring case have gotten a pretty decent number of views, but I’ve covered the major aspects of the case in some detail in both German and English. I’m happy to do another few videos on Söring and/or his case, but I’m out of ideas. What should I cover next?
Söring cannot talk for five minutes without serving up some half truth or blatant lie to support his BS: In the TV feature he claims that awaiting extradition under the treat of the death penalty was the scariest time of his life, because “at that time European countries would still extradite people to get executed”.
Germany has not extradited its own citizens since 1949. And Söring knows this.
Die beiden Anwälte von Söring sollten auch noch ausführlich ins rechte Licht gesetzt werden, was er über seine Verteidigung verbreitet ist sehr schwer auszuhalten.