It's April

News Flash!  FunDancers finally reached agreement with their club caller, organizer, planner, founder and instructor. The club now has their original club caller back, under these conditions:

• Club caller must be paid far less than any other caller.
• If club caller / founder / builder is out of town, club will spend three to six times as much money to get a substitute caller.  Club caller has no say in who they hire, nor in how much they pay.  The only guarantee is that the substitute caller gets far more money than club caller gets.
• Club caller will pay thousands of dollars in club expenses out of his own pocket, never to be reimbursed.
• If the club officers commit another crime, and if the club caller speaks out against that crime, then the club will expertly use their massive powers of swindling, lying, slander and con-artistry to smear club caller's good name which took decades to build.

Good news!  The new deal starts immediately.  The club gets a top-notch caller at a bargain price. If he can't be there, a local caller gets paid far more money to fill in. Club caller invests thousands of his own dollars into building up the club.  When the club commits another outright crime and if the club caller once again speaks out against crime, the club gets to slander and smear the caller / founder / organizer / investor (and his innocent spouse) completely out of business.

Oh yes, one more thing.  Check your calendar and please notice one tiny detail.   A P R I L   F O O L S

Yep, APRIL FOOLS, you rotten sorry crime-enabling immoral degenerates.  If you think I'll ever call for any sorry ratfink back-stabbing swindling cheaters ever again, you need to wake up from your dream.

Still, please notice that the proposed deal closely matches what the club actually had, before they crapped in their own nest. They had a willing, hard-working, talented caller couple who built the club from the ground up.  In appreciation, the club robbed and cheated and swindled and slandered and lied about and smeared and de-friended and back-stabbed that couple to the extreme. When the caller spoke out against crime, he lost every last one of his (as it ends up, totally fake) "friends". 
 
Meanwhile, the immoral scumbags who cheated and robbed and swindled and lied and smeared ... go figure .... they're prospering.  And you helped them do it.  You're a sorry excuse for humanity!  You clearly illustrate the important life-lesson that crime really does pay.
 
Here's the part I can't figure out.  You had ample opportunity to do the right thing (i.e. send a clear message that crime does NOT pay).  You chose to do exactly the wrong thing instead.  You chose to swoop into a crime scene and grab at the robbery loot with both fists, quickly, before someone else gets it all. Wow, what a rotten lowdown crummy thing to do to your so-called 'friend'.  Let's admit it.  In square dancing, "friendship" lasts only until the robbing, cheating and slander begin.

Dirty rotten scoundrel lying cheaters just bald-face outright stole a square dance club right in front of your eyes, and you know they stole it, and you helped them do it.    You helped lying robbers cheat an innocent couple out of years of hard work.  You watched a hard-working talented couple lose their entire lifelong investment in square dancing.  You watched expert swindlers turn every last fake friend against their crime victim.  You witnessed total worthless lowlifes get clean away with crime as they prospered from outright robbery, cheating, lying and swindling.  You watched expert cheaters and swindlers rip off an innocent couple, motivated by the simple fact that master con-artists need an occasional innocent victim in order to keep their swindling skills polished.

Why on earth did you do it? What on earth is wrong with you?  Why can't you recognize a robbery when you see one?  Surely your mother taught you the difference between right and wrong.  What is just so compelling about crime that you just have to chose it over doing what's right?  How can you justify helping crooks spend robbery loot, when you know the loot was stolen?  Why can't you find a good decent event to support instead?  What's so intriguing about crime scenes that you're just forced to participate and to help crooks prosper?
 
If you ever find yourself wondering, "What's wrong with Square Dancing Today?", the answer is simple.  Just look in the mirror.  You support crime.  You profit from the robbery of so-called "friends".  (In square dancing, "Friend" means "someone who pays the bills so that no one asks YOU to pay your share".)  When you were offered a clear choice between right and wrong, you went out of your way to chose wrong.  When you heard damaging gossip, you immediately jumped all over it.  You're just lower than low.  The square dance activity is in such bad shape today because it has followed your lead.

I got cheated out of money, time, labor, friends, etc.  But at least I kept my good sense.  But you got cheated most of all, because you allowed expert con-artists and swindlers to alter your own perception.  You simply cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.  Yes, it's April Fools ... and you are the fool.

C'mon FunDancers

C'mon FunDancers, really and truly. 

 

Do the right thing.  Pay your bills.

Two years ago, FunDancers realized they owed thousands of dollars to the couple who organized, founded, bankrolled and grew the club.

 
What would you do, if you found yourself owing thousands of dollars?  I surely hope you would not make the same rotten choice as FunDancers.  When faced with a mountain of debt, they simply defaulted.  They declared the debt null and void.  They refused to pay even one penny. 
 
They chose to spread lies such as:

• LIE:  "We don't owe any money" ... yet in fact you owe thousands of dollars.
• LIE:  "We pay our bills" ... yet in fact you have not paid even one cent despite repeated requests for payment.
• LIE:  "That person was never associated with our club" ... yet in fact that person organized, bankrolled and grew the club from the ground up, and everyone knows this.
• LIE:  "We built the club ourselves with our own money" ... which is true only if stealing a bunch of money suddenly makes it "your own money"
• and the most despicable LIE of all:  "The person we cheated went crazy and therefore deserves to be robbed"

The bottom line is that FunDancers outright bald-face stole thousands of dollars in broad daylight. They use the robbery loot to hire immoral callers who knowingly accept stolen funds to call for dancers who willingly participate in a crime.

 
Meanwhile, one thing remains constant.  The club still owes thousands of dollars in debt.  They haven't paid one red cent.
 
So, ignore the constant stream of lies from cheating lying swindlers.  They're only trying to cover up their own crimes.  If the lying cheaters are really such tireless supporters of square dancing, why don't they pay their bills?  The plain truth is that the club still owes their founder many thousands of dollars.  They have not paid even one cent toward the huge debt they ran up.
 
Surely you recognize the difference between right and wrong.  Do you like to reward theft?  Do you believe that people who rob, cheat, lie and swindle should prosper?
 
Me neither! 
 
C'mon FunDancers.  You apparently want people to believe you're the good guys. The best way to make people believe you do the right thing is to actually do the right thing. Pay Your Bills!  The time for lying and excuses is over.  It's now time to finally do that one thing which you should have done all along but which you never even attempted to do.
 
You ran up thousands of dollars in debt.  You defaulted on that debt.  When your crime victim refused to silently take a robbin', you lied and smeared people's good names like crazy.  But you still owe the money.  You still use robbery loot to hire accomplices to your crimes.  Those are the facts.  If you don't like the facts, then do something different and create different facts.

  
C'mon FunDancers.  All of your dirty rotten acts in the past are just flat wrong.  There's only one way to correct this. Simply stop doing wrong things.  Stop lying, cheating and robbing.  Start doing the right thing instead.
 
C'mon Fundancers.  Do the right thing.  Pay your bills!

Reap what you sow

Pssst.  Hey you!  Will you help?  Here's the deal.  A group of swindlers cheated and robbed an innocent couple out of their life's work.  Now the crooks need your help to spend the robbery loot.  Will you aid and abet criminal scumbags?
  
If you're a square dancer in the San Antonio or Austin area, or a square dance caller anywhere, the answer is obviously a resounding YES. 

 

So here's my suggestion.  Seeing as you're such a big proponent of theft and looting, why don't you become their next robbery victim?  Yes, that's a grand idea.  Start your very own square dance club.  Spend years of your time and thousands of your dollars to build it up.  The very minute it becomes self-sufficient, let the swindlers steal it right out from under your nose.
  

When you refuse to silently take a robbin', enjoy watching the dirtbags smear your hard-earned good name all to hell and back.  Observe while your fake "friends" gladly support and endorse the lying robbing swindlers who cheated you (in one fell swoop) out of the venture which took years of your time (and thousands of your dollars) to build.
 

In closing, I actually have NO problem with the fact that you support lying cheating robbing swindlers ... as long as you are willing to become their next robbery victim.  So, enjoy wallowing in the filth of someone else's criminal acts, but don't get all indignant when you become the target of the next robbery.  After all, if you support the robbery of your "fellow square dancer" then surely you can support the same concept when you become the crime victim.

  
Or ... here's an idea ... you can do the right thing instead.  You can stop endorsing theft.  You can refuse to reward people who rob and steal.  You can find good honest activities to support.  With all of the decent legitimate square dance events around, why on earth would you chose a cheating robbing swindled club?

Dear Abby

Dear Abby,
 

A few years ago, I formed a partnership with "friends".  Together we built the largest and most successful square dance club in the region.  Alas, I had loaned thousands of dollars to the venture. The very minute the fledgling enterprise turned profitable, the other partners flat-out stole the club in broad daylight.  They took everything.  They completely defaulted on the debt they owed.  Then they used malicious slander to spread dirty lies and turn hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of so-called "friends" and "fans" against me.  What should I do?

Signed,

Trying To Keep It From Happening to Someone Else

 
 ::

 
Dear Keep It From Happening,

 
Wake up and smell the coffee.  Next time, choose real friends rather than fake ones. 

 
Here's your first clue.  If you ever think that square-dance friends are real, think again. They're not real.  They're fake.  They'll pretend to be your friend ... as long as you pay the bills.  They'll rob you and your spouse while you're out of town.  Live and learn.  You made the mistake of expecting friendship and decency from people who are simply not capable of such qualities.

 
Clue #2:  don't ever loan money to no-good low-down ratfink robbing turncoat cheating swindlers. What were you thinking?  Alarms should have gone off the very minute that people with jobs and/or steady pensions wanted to "borrow" money from a struggling hard-working self-employed entrepreneur.  The signs were all there.  You failed to read them.  You were set up as a robbery victim from the get-go.

 
Now let's talk about how, after a robbery, when you urgently need support and understanding from "professional colleagues", they all side with the robbers.  The explanation is simple.  Other callers are not actually your "friends".  They're your competitors.  They're competing for the same shrinking customer base.  In any competitive arena, your colleagues want just one thing after a robbery.  They want to reach in and grab as much loot as possible, before someone else jumps in and grabs it first.  You expected morality and ethical behavior from people who simply don't have it to give.

 
Here's the saddest part.  Right now, at this very minute, the same low-down cheating swindling ratfink thieving lying slanderous jerks are planning their next robbery.  Yep, believe it.  Someone at today's dance will likely be the next crime victim.  Listen to Abby.  Anyone who willingly associates with known cheaters and swindlers should not act surprised when they find themselves funding the next round of robbery loot.

What will the history books say about you?

FunDancers racked up thousands of dollars in debt. When the club finally became big enough (78 members) to be worth stealing, the dirty cheating swindling crooks outright stole the club in broad daylight. They did not even attempt to pay even one penny toward the thousands of dollars in debt they rightfully owed.

When the club subsequently wanted to hire callers to fill in for the person they ruthlessly robbed and cheated, most callers gladly swooped in and helped themselves to the stolen robbery loot. They didn't care if the money and the club were stolen. They only wanted to grab as much loot as they could, before someone else grabbed it instead. One proper way to describe this behavior is "immoral money-grabber" ... a term which fairly describes every caller who ever called at FunDancers since April 2012.

After someone commits a crime, what do they do next? Go ahead and guess. I'll wait ...

Did you guess correctly? After someone commits a crime, they lie like crazy. Virtually every excuse FunDancers ever offered after the crime is a bald-face lie. Most of their alibis are totally ludicrous. It's a sad commentary when gullible square dancers automatically believe lies without even checking to find out if there's any shred of truth. It's even sadder to realize that I spent 30 years trying to please such no-good back-stabbing rotten two-faced fake people.

Let's face facts. If you ripped off an innocent couple for thousands of dollars, would you tell the truth about your own swindling cheating rotten thievery? Of course you wouldn't. You'd lie, just like FunDancers did (and are still doing).

Such atrocious actions are as wrong as wrong can be. There is no justification nor excuse for robbery, cheating, swindling and theft. If you support (or even tolerate) such atrocious crimes then something is dreadfully wrong with you.

You can't change the past. If you supported FunDancers in the past then you are already a no-good dirty rotten crime-enabler. It's written in history. You can't change what you were.  But you can change what you will be in the future.  So .. stop supporting crime, right now. Become a former dirty, no-good, rotten cheater-helper. Improve your future by making better choices. Find a good honest dance to go to instead.

Need Your Help to Figure This Thing Out

Here's the situation. FunDancers ran up thousands of dollars in debt. One day, while the person who was owed the thousands of dollars was out of town, the rest of them had a meeting. They decided to:

• default on the debt, without paying even one single penny they owed
• outright steal thousands of dollars
• steal the entire club
• tell numerous lies
• swindle and cheat their so-called "friend"
• take over the stolen club, and 
• use the robbery loot to continue operations.

Here's the part where I need your help to figure this thing out. Why on earth would you participate in, celebrate, enable or even tolerate such swindling, cheating bald-face robbery? Don't you consider yourself to be a "good" person?  If you're really a good person, then why would you help someone cheat and steal?  Can't you find an honest dance to go to instead? Out of all the dances you could choose, why would you chose the only area dance where rotten immoral scumbag crooks totally robbed and swindled an innocent couple out of their life's work?

In other words, if you supported the robbing cheating swindling lying crooks, what were you thinking??? Why is the simple concept of "avoid a crime scene" so difficult for you to comprehend?

A Catchy Poem

You've all heard the famous rhyme:

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

The crime happened in 1892. Today, we're still chanting rhymes about that long-ago crime. What's even more amazing is that Lizzie Borden got clean away with murder. It went to trial but the jury could not believe that a sweet adorable woman could actually commit such a terrible crime on her own parents.

She was acquitted.

Likewise and similarly, the crooks and robbers who outright stole the FunDancers square dance club also got clean away with their crimes. Square dancers are kind, trusting individuals. Whenever a situation clearly calls for us to recognize and react to vile despicable acts, most square dancers completely bury their head in the sand. They just can't believe that other square dancers are capable of downright rotten strong-arm robbery and theft.

To be fair, it's not _just_ square dancers who are easily hoodwinked. Mankind has been overrun with stupid gullible people throughout history. Whenever our friends and acquaintances engage in a horrible crime, our first inclination is to pretend it did NOT happen.

Yet .... in the case of the swindling cheaters who stole FunDancers ... it really did happen. The huge damage it caused to the square dance movement is severe and permanent. And those thieves got clean away with it, thanks to your inability to face the truth.

The rotten jerks who stole Fundancers owed many thousands of dollars in legitimate debt to the club founder. They never tried to pay even one cent they owed. Instead, they concocted a plan to outright steal the money in broad daylight while the club owners were out of town. Then they used the robbery loot to hire immoral callers to call for unscrupulous dancers.

If you dance or call at FunDancers, then you assist, support, enable and glorify rogues who swindle, cheat and rob. You help lowdown crooks get away scot-free with outright bald-face theft.

Let's put it in simple terms. If you don't do everything in your power to help shut down FunDancers, then YOU are a crime-enabler.

Here's the old rhyme from 1892, updated to fit today's reality.

FunDancers did a criminal act,
You helped the crooks, that's a fact.
How in the world can you call it fun,
to help swindling cheaters take the money and run?