It's Robber Celebration Day!

If you're a square dancer in the San Antonio or Austin area, you already know what today is.  It's Rob-Day.  It's the one day per week when we celebrate crooked, rotten swindlers who cheated a hard-working couple out of a business they built from the ground up.

 

You can celebrate Robber-Cheater-Swindler day, or you can do something positive instead.  Which will you choose?
 

BTW, I need your help please.  This message is aimed at people who are suspected of supporting and enabling low-down varmints who robbed an innocent couple of their life's work.  If you no longer endorse cheating, robbing, lying swindlers, just send me a short note and I'll gladly remove you from this list.  But if you are still profiting from the robbery loot of that years-ago crime, you'll remain on this list because that's exactly where you need to be.
 

Avoid robbers, cheaters and swindlers.  Focus on good wholesome activities instead.  End of message.

Hurry!

Hurry on out to FunDancers to celebrate rotten cheaters such as Johnny Preston who bald-face flat-out swindled an innocent couple out of thousands of dollars and stole their life's work in broad daylight.  Go ahead and reward slime-balls such as Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Sam Bloom and many others who get ahead by stealing from hard-working people and running smear campaigns.
 

How does it make you feel, when you reward cheating swindling lying robbers?

  

Here's one way to feel better:  do the right thing.  Find a good wholesome honorable event instead.

How to Grow Square Dancing

A recent article in the Austin Square Dance association newsletter ponders the age-old question, "how can we grow square dancing?". 

  

Actually, that question has a simple answer.  Just trick people into investing years of work and thousands of dollars into creating a club.  When the club finally grows large enough to be self-sufficient, outright bald-face steal it from the rightful owner. 

 

While this idea might seem outlandish, it did in fact work well for FunDancers and the raunchy, lying, cheating swindlers who got clean away with their theft.  So, the next time someone asks you, "How can we have more square dancers?" describe the tried and true way.  Cheat and rob someone. 

 

If you have any questions about how to cheat or rob someone out of many thousands of dollars and years of work, ask an expert such as Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, K O Jeanes, Johnny Preston, Wade Driver, Jerry Story, Tom Roper, Dan Nordbye, Darryl Lipscomb, Sam Bloom, Billy Grimsley, Brad Caldwell, Jerry Jestin, Mike Sikorsky, Bob McVey, Les Hughes, Jim Douglas.

 

So, always remember:  if you ever want more of anything in this world, look around you.  Find someone who worked hard to build what you want.  Wait until the owner goes out of town, then outright baldface steal what you want.  It's the cheap and easy way to prosperity.

Correction to Newspaper Article

A recent newspaper article about FunDancers contains substantial misstatements.  For example, the club president says "his" club formed in 2010 . That's a bald-face lie.  FunDancers formed in 2010 when a hard-working talented young couple invested hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to create the business.  It was not "his" club.  It became "his" club only after rotten, lying, cheating swindlers outright bald-face stole the club from the rightful owners in 2012.

  

The article memorializes the success of swindling, cheating robbers such as Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Billy Grimsley, Jim Douglas, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, Sam Bloom and a host of others.  It celebrates the perverted act of profiting from the robbery of a colleague, such perverseness practiced regularly by Les Hughes, Darryl Lipscomb, Wade Driver, Tom Roper, Jerry Story, Dan Nordbye, Mike Sikorsky, Bill Wright, Bob McVey and many others.  It celebrates the vile despicable depravity of robbing people and then, when your crime victims won't silently take it, criminally smearing them completely out of business.  The article celebrates how to be really low, nasty, no-good pond-scum.  The article is about people who don't know the difference between right and wrong.  The article celebrates everything bad in life.

  

We can only hope that Google never finds out about the vile indecent crimes perpetuated by lowlife psychotics.  So, let's keep it a secret from Google, lest we damage square dancing's pristine reputation.  Oh yes, that reminds me.  This email was delivered via a Google service.  It is blogged to another Google service.  Google already knows all about your crimes.  Whenever someone in the San Antonio area googles square dancing, all they they find is YOUR crimes.   They will continue to find your crimes until you stop committing so many atrocious crimes.
  

The world is filled with Good and Evil.  Can you recognize the difference?  If you patronize the club which was outright bald-face flat-out stolen in broad daylight, cheating the club's founders out of thousands of dollars and their entire life's work, then obviously you are just unable to distinguish right from wrong.  So, enjoy your stolen dance club today, then burn in hell for eternity.

What Do People Find?

We've all heard of Google.  It's how people find things on the internet.  What if someone Googles "square dancing in San Antonio"?  What would the search results show?

   

You can be confident that Google will show the truth.  If there were a good, wholesome, vibrant, healthy square dance community in San Antonio, Google would accurately report that fact.  If, on the other hand, there is a sick, perverted, screwed-up square dance crime-ring populated by lying, cheating, swindling robbers who bald-face outright rip off a hard-working, innocent couple, then we can faithfully trust Google to tell it like it is.

   

What do you think people find when they search for square dancing in San Antonio?  The answer is simple.  They find the truth.  The truth is that the local square dance scene supports the outright bald-face robbery and name-smearing of hard-working innocent people.  The local square dance scene rewards two-faced back-stabbers, dirty rotten swindlers and liars of all sorts.  The local square dance scene profits from the robbery of others.  That's what the San Antonio square dance scene really is.  That's what Google really finds.
  

If you want Google to report more positive results, then you need to start doing more positive things.  Otherwise, Google will faithfully report the accurate facts:  square dancing in San Antonio is a dysfunctional screwed-up cheater's activity whose primary purpose is to rob, smear and swindle innocent, hard-working people ... exactly like FunDancers did and exactly like the actions which you continue to endorse and support.

  

Google reports the truth.  The truth is not pretty.  It's time for you to stop supporting people like Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Bob McVey, Brad Caldwell, Tom Roper, Mike Sikorsky, Dan Nordbye, Bob McVey, Darryl Lipscomb, Ted Zahorski, Billy Grimsley, Wade Driver, Johnny Preston, Bill Wright, Jerry Story, K O Jeanes, Wayne Weston, Les Hughes, Jim Douglas, Ken Wheatley, Sam Bloom and many others who endorse and profit from the criminal activities of robbing, swindling and bilking.
  

The truth is out there, waiting to be discovered.  You write the truth with your actions.  Google merely reports it.

Can you find and fix the mistake?

The next paragraph contains one mistake.  Can you find it?

News flash:  Hard-working couple invests years of their time and thousands of their dollars to build a nice square dance club.  The very minute it turns profitable, swindling cheating robbers outright bald-face steal the club in broad daylight.  The lying, immoral crooks get clean away with their crime.  Each week, the robbery victim's so-called "friends" profit from the robbery loot. 
 
Did you find the mistake?

Here's the mistake:  it's not "news".  It's "olds".  The robbery occurred in April 2012.

Guess what?  You have the power to end the crime spree!  All you have to do is stop supporting cheating, swindling, robbing jerks.  Think twice about hiring or supporting callers such as Brad Caldwell, Noah Siegmann, Bob McVey, Wade Driver, Johnny Preston, Mike Sikorsky, Bill Wright, Billy Grimsley, Tom Roper, Dan Nordbye, Arnold Gladson, K O Jeanes, Jerry Jestin, Jerry Story, Darryl Lipscomb, Gary Sanders and Les Hughes ... all of whom are happy to profit from robbery.
 
Steer clear of dancers such as Ed Wedig, Ted Zahorski, Sam Bloom, Jim Douglas, Ken Wheatley, Nancy Zahorski, fundancers, Arthur Wills and Fay Wheatley who like to swindle and cheat innocent, hard-working people.
 
If you're looking for good line dancing, square dancing or a square dance caller near San Antonio or Schertz, choose a good honest individual instead of someone who will help rob, cheat, swindle and smear a colleague out of business.

It's your choice.  You can continue to support events run by robbing, cheating, swindling thieves.  Or you can do the right thing instead.  Choose a good, honest, non-controversial, upstanding, moral event to enjoy.

What Did You learn?

Think back to when you were in school.  You probably took classes like reading, writing, math and science. Here's the question:  did you learn the skills you need to get ahead in life?
   
Answer:  probably not.  Consider, for example, the wacky world of square dance clubs.  Look at the people who get ahead in that arena.  Look at the skills they used to get there.
 
In the case of FunDancers, they used skills such as lying, stealing, cheating, swindling, name-smearing, back-stabbing and just downright total rottenness. Those are the skills we should teach in school.  Those are the skills which allow crooks, swindlers, slanderers and deadbeats such as Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Darryl Lipscomb, Sam Bloom, Jerry Story, Arthur Wills, Ted Zahorski, Tim Marriner, Tony Oxendine, Nancy Zahorski, Mike Sikorsky, FunDancers and Johnny Preston to get ahead in life.
 
That same skill-set allows two-faced, false-friend back-stabbers such as Billy Grimsley, Dan Nordbye, Tom Roper, Wade Driver, K O Jeanes, Wayne Weston, Gary Sanders, Bill Wright, Brad Caldwell, Arnold Gladson and Les Hughes to profit handsomely from the robbery of innocent people.
 
So, if you ever want to teach a promising youngster how to get ahead in life, teach the skills they really need.  Teach treachery, lying and just bald-face outright robbing innocent people.  That's how FunDancers got to where they are today, so apparently that's what it takes to get ahead in life.
 
Or ... here's an alternative ... you can steer clear of wrongdoing.  You can choose events which are good, correct, true, honest and wholesome.  You can avoid events staged by lying, swindling, cheating, stealing hucksters.  Choose a decent, moral event instead.

How can we stop this?

Here's a great idea!  Here's a way to stop all the whistle-blowing about crime in the square dance world. This idea just might work. 
 
First, let's agree we have a problem.  The square dance community is beset by a constant stream of messages about cheating, lying, swindling, robbing and downright rottenness in the activity.

Let's also agree that we know what causes the problem. A hard-working couple was senselessly robbed of their livelihood by immoral, calculating swindlers. Lots of people supported and endorsed that crime. Every time a new episode in the crime series occurs, new messages get spawned. This pattern has continued for 29 months, regular as clockwork.  The same pattern will continue for as long as the crime spree continues.

Let's discuss how you can help solve the problem. The internet is a permanent record of mankind's activities. If you do good, moral things then you leave a nice, positive, uplifting record of your actions. But if you help promote robbery and theft, i.e. if you help dirty, cheating, rotten criminals get away with swindling a hard-working couple out of their hard-earned money, then your vile, filthy choices get recorded for eternity.

History is written by your choices.

What happens when someone who does not square dance becomes curious about the activity?  Most people nowadays will do an internet search to get more info.  Whenever someone Googles "square dancing" in the local area, guess what they find?

Do you have any idea how to stop the negative publicity? Here's one idea.  It's radical but it could work.  Are you ready to hear the idea?

The cure is simple and it's in your control. 

Simply stop supporting immoral, criminal, psychotic activities run by cheating, lying, habitual thieves.  Stop cheating, lying, swindling, name-smearing, robbing and being just downright rotten.  Holy Smokes, didn't your mother teach you that it's wrong to rob and steal and cheat? Why do you still need to learn how to act decently?  In other words, what the hell is wrong with you?

Every time you add to the crime spree (by supporting yet another accomplice who rakes in robbery loot to abet swindling, cheating criminals), new messages are born. Each message goes all over the world.  There have been a lot of messages.  That's because there has been a lot of cheating, robbing and loot-spending.
 
Oops, I almost forgot one tiny detail.  Let's "name names".  It's important.  I'll tell you why it's important in a future message.  Partial list of dirty rotten perpetrators of cheating, swindling, name-smearing and theft:  Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Jim Douglas, Johnny Preston, Jerry Story, Wade Driver, Tom Roper, Dan Nordbye, Brad Caldwell, Wayne Weston, Bill Wright, Billy Grimsley, Arnold Gladson, Marie Gladson, Darryl Lipscomb, Les Hughes, Bob McVey, Gary Sanders, Gary Belchik, K O Jeanes, Jerry Jestin, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, Arthur Wills, Sam Bloom and many others too numerous to name.

Bottom line:  if you stop supporting cheaters, swindlers and thieves then the messages about your cheating, swindling and thievery will also stop.  Frankly, I don't know any other way to squelch the flood of bad publicity.  If you want good publicity then you'll just have to start doing good things for a change.

Whenever you see negative publicity about square dancing, I hope your chest swells up with pride when you realize that the stories are true and accurate ... and you wrote the stories. History is written by your choices. 

Improve the world!

You, yes you, can make the world a better place. 
 
Here's the situation:  Each week, a band of cheating, robbing, swindling, conniving crooks holds a square dance at a club which they outright, bald-face, totally stole.  You, yes YOU, can improve the world by refusing to endorse such immoral, rotten, lowdown, dastardly deeds. 
 
Here's how to fix it:  Instead of aiding, abetting and rewarding crime, you can choose a good, honest, wholesome dance event ... and encourage your friends to similarly choose right over wrong. You, yes YOU, can make the world a better place.  Don't let rotten, lowlife, no-good, cheating swindlers profit from robbery. Choose a better class of event.  Stop supporting theft.  Improve the world.

Why Is This Happening?

A few years ago, a gang of robbers stole a square dance club in broad daylight.  They cheated an innocent, hard-working couple out of an entire lifetime of investment and hard work.
 
The crime has been written up repeatedly on the internet. Did you know that the write-ups follow a very deliberate pattern?  Do you have any idea what the pattern is?

You get an email, and a post gets added to a website, and the message goes around the world, etc., each and every time the club's original founder / investor / creator / builder should have called the club's dance, but someone else came in there and swooped up robbery loot to call a dance which was outright stolen from the rightful owner.

Think about it.  A caller invests much time and money to build a nice square dance club. Why would someone build a square dance club?  There's only one reason.  The caller hopes to eventually recoup the huge up-front investment by calling future dances at the club. 

But in this case, the very week that the club finally became profitable, dirty, rotten crooks outright stole it from the original founder / builder / investor.  The club-builder never gets to recover his investment.  The future payout goes to accomplices in the crime.  Other callers gladly accept a handsome return on the investment made by an acquaintance who was duped, cheated, swindled and smeared.

 
Every time another episode in this crime spree occurs, it's just flat wrong.  Every time someone calls a dance which rightfully should be a return on the founder's original investment, YOU get a email message and a blog post gets made and a bunch of other things happen. 

Think about it.  These are not random rants.  Instead, they are carefully planned responses to events which YOU control. Every time you see a message like this, it means that YOU helped swindling, cheating liars to freshly rob an innocent crime victim of an incremental amount.  Each message is recorded for all time on  website which serves as a permanent monument to the moment when YOU made a bad choice.  You took a bad situation and made it WORSE by continuing to participate in crime.

Nobody's keeping count but the total robbery amount is now well over $60,000 in direct losses that an innocent couple suffered strictly because Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Sam Bloom, K O Jeanes, Johnny Preston, Jerry Story, Gary Sanders, Arthur Wills, Bill Wright, Wayne Weston, Les Hughes, Arnold Gladson, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, Brad Caldwell, Mike Sikorsky, Dan Nordbye, Tom Roper, Wade Driver and a host of other people happen to be robbing, cheating, swindling thieves.

There's a very good reason for "naming names" but that will be the subject of a different message.  Remember, you get a message every time you commit an additional crime.  You'll get the rest of the story soon, I'm sure.
 
Square dancers are supposed to be fine, upstanding, moral people but the plain truth is that you're just flat NOT decent people.  You helped completely rip off an innocent, hard-working couple.  You did it by claiming that someone went crazy and therefore deserves to be robbed.  Decent people just flat do not do what you did. There is no rightness nor justification whatsoever about the crimes in which YOU participated and in which you CONTINUE to participate.

The one and only purpose of this message is to explain WHY seemingly random info keeps showing up all over the place.  In fact, it's not random.  Every time a new crime occurs, a new message is born.  YOU control the messages.  The messages will stop the very minute that YOU stop participating in the robbery, cheating and swindling of innocent, hard-working people.

Who You Gonna Call?

Once upon a time, an energetic young couple invested $1,000 into a brand-new square dance club.  For the next few years they continued to build and grow the club, investing hundreds of hours and thousands of additional dollars. The club was successful. 
  
One day, a band of sorry, rotten cheaters bald-face, outright stole the business in broad daylight.  The expert swindlers worked methodically.  First they discredited and smeared the crime victims (by claiming the business owners had gone "crazy").  Next they flat-out, strong-arm stole the hard-working couple's entire life-work. 

Immoral, robbing thieves attacked an innocent, hard-working couple for no reason and completely stole ALL their hard work, monetary investment, years of labor and hundreds of (as it ends up, totally fake) friends.  The rotten, despicable robbers left the business-builders with absolutely nothing:  no income, no money, no business, no bookings, no credibility, no friends.  The cheating, swindling, immoral crooks stole everything.
 
According to legend, square dancers are fine, upstanding people.  Pretend (it's not that big of a stretch) that you're a cheating, swindling scumbag who bald-face stole a square dance club.  You need someone to call for your illicit gathering.  Among a population of allegedly "fine, upstanding people", who can you find to enable and support your stolen enterprise?
  
Let's ponder this dilemma.  All of the callers knew that one of their own professional colleagues invested years of time and thousands of dollars to build a successful club, only to have the hard-earned enterprise bald-face, out-right stolen clean away.  All of the callers knew that if they call for the stolen club, they'll get paid in robbery loot.  Here's the burning question.  Which "fine, upstanding" caller would stoop low enough to accept robbery loot and help criminals outright cheat and rob one of their "friends" and colleagues?
  
Answer:  every last scum-sucking caller on this planet.  They all gleefully and eagerly helped the robbers.  No caller gave a rat's behind about morality, civility, "friendship", justice, rightness, fairness, etc. 

Lesson learned:  if you ever want square dance calls to spew out of someone's mouth, just wave robbery loot in front of either of their two faces.

Do you support theft and robbery?  If so, you're in luck.  Just show up at the stolen club's dance.  You'll find yourself completely surrounded by other crime enthusiasts.  You can all celebrate together the vile acts of cheating and swindling hard-working people.
 
Or, you can do the right thing instead.  Avoid FunDancers, Ed Wedig, Ken & Fay Wheatley, Billy Grimsley, Arthur Wills, Wayne Weston, Bill Wright, Brad Caldwell, K O Jeanes, Les Hughes, Gary Sanders, Arnold Gladson, Darryl Lipscomb, Johnny Preston and the entire gang of cheating, rotten, swindling thieves.  Stop rewarding crime.  Support good, honest people and events instead.

Checklist

Do you have a checklist of things to do each day or week?  Let's talk about your checklist.  Surely items are on your list because they need to be done.  Surely you try to improve the world by using your checklist.

  

Ditto and likewise.  One of the items on MY checklist, to do every Sunday, is 'help stamp out robberies'.  Here's the deal:  dirty rotten cheating robbers bald-face stole a square dance club from a hard-working honest couple.  They smeared and slandered that couple's good name, and got clean away with robbery in broad daylight.

  

That robbery is just totally wrong.  It was wrong when it happened, it's been wrong ever since, and it will continue to be wrong until corrected.

 

So, every Sunday is "Attempt To Correct" day.  It's on the checklist, so let's get 'er done.  Let's start at the beginning.  It began with robbery, so let's start there.  Do you support theft and cheating and swindling and robbery?  If so, then shame on you.  You seriously need to stop supporting robbers.  You need to stop supporting FunDancers.  That club exists today for just one reason only:  someone bald-face stole it.  If you helped the robbers get clean away with the crime, then you did the wrong thing.  You're a dirty rotten individual.  Stop helping robbers.  That's it.
 

But what if you do not support robbery?  What if you do the right thing instead (by choosing a good honest event instead of a cheated stolen swindled one)?  If so, goody for you.  When you choose a good honest event, you're doing what's right.  Now all you need to do is encourage others to also do what's right.
 

Sunday is 'Anti-Robbery' day.  Do something today to make sure that bald-face swindling robbers don't get away with their crime.  Stop supporting robbery, encourage others to stop supporting robbery, then check it off your list.

Shortcut to Success

It takes takes years of time and thousands of dollars to build a successful square dance club. 
    
Or you can find a shortcut, like FunDancers did.  Let someone else spend years of time and thousands of dollars to build a club.  Wait patiently.  The very minute the club turns profitable, swoop in and outright bald-face steal the club from the hard-working people who built it.
     
Such a sick and twisted strategy only works if you can find immoral callers who knowingly accept robbery loot to call for crooks.  It only works if you can find two-faced double-crossing dancers who knowingly reward robbers and cheats.  In other words, outright bald-face stealing a square dance club in broad daylight only works in San Antonio, Texas.
   
If you helped the dirty rotten scoundrels at FunDancers get clean away with the crimes of outright swindling and robbery, shame on you!  San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the USA yet the local square dance scene is almost completely dead.  Square dancing died out locally because you completely lack morals and integrity.

  
Square dancing is an activity for good honest people.  The local square dancers do not meet that qualification. You're simply not good people.  Indeed, you're crummy rotten people who don't know the basic difference between right and wrong.  Your downright rottenness has almost completely killed square dancing in the USA's 7th largest city. Shame on you.
 

Here's some good news.  You still have the option to do the right thing.  All you have to do is avoid the crime scene at FunDancers.  Stop rewarding crime.  Find a good honest dance instead.

Play It Again

Once upon a time, a talented, hard-working, internationally-known square dance couple moved to San Antonio.  They built a successful club from the ground up.  They even built websites (for free) for the benefit of the area's square dancers. They certainly made the square dance world a better place. 
 
Then, one day, raunchy swindlers outright robbed them of their life's work.
 
You supported the robbers.  You helped dirty, rotten crooks put a hard-working square dance couple completely out of business.  Shame on you.
 
So, let's analyze what you did.  Do you honestly believe that you improved the square dance world, by helping crooked swindlers cheat a hard-working, talented, energetic couple out of a business which took years of labor and thousands of dollars to build?
 
If you really believe that you improved square dancing by cheating a hard-working, talented, caring, giving couple out of their life's work... then shouldn't you "help" square dancing again, by finding a brand-new hard-working couple to cheat and rob and smear?

 
Geeez, what a totally immoral, crime-enabling, sorry, rotten, disgusting slime-ball you turned out to be.

Do Something Positive

If you like to spend your Sundays aiding and abetting in crime, here's a suggestion:  do something positive instead.  For example, take a few minutes to find another square dance club which does not try to get ahead via robbery, cheating, swindling, name-smearing and outright theft.
  

Really and truly, deep-down, surely you are aware that a hard-working couple invested heavily into creating and building FunDancers from the ground up.  After the club finally grew to the point of self-sufficiency, sorry deadbeat lowdown cheating robbers bald-face stole the club in broad daylight.  You know it happened.  You know it's wrong.  So ... why do you support wrong-doing, when it's so easy to choose a better alternative?

Sunday Is Loot Day

Another Sunday rolls around, and you know what that means.  On Sunday, the San Antonio Square Dance movement rewards and encourages looting, cheating, swindling, robbery and theft.

    

This message goes out to hundreds of people, just like yourself, who are suspected of supporting robbery, theft, cheating, stealing and downright rottenness.  The first question to ask is, "are you categorized correctly?"   Yes or No?  Either you reward cheating robbing scumbags, or you don't.

    

If you are categorized correctly, i.e. if you see nothing wrong with out-right bald-face stealing a business from the very people who built it, then you're doing the right thing by reading this message.  This message is aimed at people who support robbery, swindling and theft.  If that's you, then this message is exactly what you need to hear.  In a nutshell, you make bad decisions and you definitely need to stop doing so.

  

If you are categorized incorrectly ... or if you suddenly decide to stop supporting crime ... simply reply to this message, let me know that you're no longer a ratfink robbery-supporting two-faced raunchy crime-enabling scumbag, and your name gets immediately and cheerfully removed from the list.  Also, congratulations for making the right choice.

  

If you happen to know any other dirty rotten crime-supporting fake-friend loot-scooping scumbags just like yourself, they need to also be on this anti-crime list.  Simply send in their email addresses and I'll gladly add them.  Together we can improve the world. People who support crime should be encouraged to make better choices.

  

It's Sunday.  In the local square dance world, Sunday has evolved into "Reward Cheating Swindling Looting Robbers" Day.  It's also "Weekly Reminder That You Should Make Better Choices" Day.

Prove It

Do you believe the old saying "Crime Does Not Pay"?  If so, prove it!  FunDancers ran up thousands of dollars in debt owed to their club founder.  They defaulted on that debt then they outright stole the club from the very people who built it.  They used the stolen robbery loot to run the club.

  

What's done is done.  Nothing you can say or do today can right that historic wrong.  But you can still improve the future ... your future.  You can make a statement ... to yourself and others.  You can prove to yourself and to all future wrongdoers that crime does not pay.

 

First, ask yourself some questions and answer them honestly.  Do you prefer right over wrong?  Do you support honesty instead of theft?   Do you believe people should pay their bills?  Do you encourage hard work to create value, rather than cheating, swindling and robbing to steal value?

  

If you really do believe in right over wrong, prove it ... by avoiding the lying, cheating, deadbeat, robbing club.  Find a good honest dance instead.  Don't reward swindlers.  Send a crystal-clear message that crime does not pay.

Can you guess what T-S-A-T-L means?

Take one glance at The Stolen Club's upcoming schedule and you will immediately see the effects of  T-S-A-T-L. The crooks and robbers are trying to save money by hiring cheap callers.  Clearly, T-S-A-T-L overran the club.
 
In case you didn't know, experienced robbers and cheats conspired to swindle and steal a square dance club away from the couple who spent thousands of dollars and years of hard work to build the club from the ground up.  What the dirty rotten crooks did is _totally_ wrong.  If _you_ visit the stolen club then you're also totally wrong.  You're a crime enabler and a theft supporter, whether or not  T-S-A-T-L.

What does it feel like, to realize that you helped dirty rotten no-good swindlers drive an innocent hard-working couple out of business?
 
Back when the robbery happened (before  T-S-A-T-L) the club was the premiere club in the area.  Now the club is mediocre at best.  Before  T-S-A-T-L, the club danced to national callers only.  Now they'll hire any caller willing to accept robbery loot.

Before T-S-A-T-L, the club hired Tony Oxendine.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire John Kephart.  Can you tell the difference? 

Before T-S-A-T-L, they hired Joe Saltel.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire Arnold Gladson.  Do you notice a pattern? 

Before T-S-A-T-L, they hired Wade Driver.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire Wayne Weston. Can you detect a trend?

One word tells the entire story:  T-S-A-T-L

The End.

(Did you guess correctly?  T.S.A.T.L. means "They Spent All The Loot".)

Guessing about Honesty

The upcoming dance at The Stolen Club makes a great case study.
  
Back when The Robbery first happened, Joe steered well away from the Cheating Swindlers Who Robbed his Colleague. Even though The Robbers repeatedly asked The Honest One to call for the Stolen Club, Honest Joe repeatedly yet nicely refused to accept Robbery Loot.

Obviously, that has now changed.  This Sunday, more than two years after The Robbery, Joe will, for the very first time, accept Stolen Robbery Loot to call for Lying Cheating Crooks.
 
What changed?  It's time for wild guesses.
 
Joe has been hanging on, for years, in the rapidly dwindling square dance market.  What would _you_ do if _your_ business declined ten percent a year, for a decade? Would you remain totally honest and ethical? Or would you relax your moral standards in order to earn a living?
 
Perhaps the term "Honest Joe" is a relic from the past.  Perhaps he realizes he can no longer make a living by remaining honest.  Now he must accept robbery loot just to make ends meet.  If this guess is correct, isn't it a shame whenever someone has to resort to crime just to stay afloat?
 
People who opt for wrongdoing often "justify" the deed in their own minds.  Perhaps Joe figures that the "statute of limitations" has run out, i.e. all robberies which happened two years ago are suddenly legit.
  
Perhaps Joe is just getting old.  (Aren't we all?).  Perhaps he can no longer remember that, two years ago, one of his so-called "friends" was brutally robbed, swindled, cheated and smeared out of a business which took years to build.
 
Perhaps Joe was once upright and moral, but now The Devil Hisself has Up And Possessed Joe.

We could easily keep guessing.  Guessing is fun.  It's the natural human reaction to a probing question.  Here's the question:  what on earth would make a formerly decent person (like Joe) politely refuse for years to participate in a robbery, and then all-of-a-sudden decide that it's perfectly okay to call for lying cheating swindlers who bald-face stole and smeared an innocent couple out of their life's work? 
 
Why was it wrong, for several years, to profit from robbery, but suddenly today it's okay?  Some questions just really make you wonder.

Here's the biggest question of all.  This isn't really about Joe.  It's about YOU.  _You_ already know that the Stolen Club exists only because of robbery.  _You_ are well aware that dirty rotten crooks cheated and slandered a hard-working couple out of their life's work.  In short, _you_ surely know that something is totally rotten and illegitimate about FunDancers. 

So ... why would you go?  Why don't you find an honest dance instead?  And once you find an honest dance event, invite Joe.

Do you have what it takes?

Johnny Preston is a full-time traveling square dance caller. He has no home club to call for. Instead, he goes out and harvests money from other clubs that other people built. He comes into town, calls a dance, collects a handsome fee and then moves on to the next harvest point.

   

But what if a club already has a caller booked on the date when Johnny Preston wants to breeze into town and seize someone's paycheck?  Does a person who organizes, builds, finances and grows a club get to call for his own group?  Or should a rightful club owner be required to forfeit his paycheck every time Johnny Preston happens to bop into town?

  

Think about a job that you get paid to do.  What if somebody happens to travel through your town one day?  What if this traveler wants to go to your workplace and do your job and collect your paycheck for that day? What would you do? How would you feel? 

  

Fortunately, in the square dance world, respected rules already exist to cover this situation.  Following time-honored traditions, the club owner offered to share his paycheck with Johnny Preston.  In other words, instead of letting Johnny Preston come in and outright steal a paycheck from a hard-working caller and his family, the club owner offered to split that paycheck with Johnny Preston.  (This kind of offer is actually common in the square dance world.)
 

But it is completely uncommon ... in fact it's totally unheard of ... for an out-of-town caller like Johnny Preston to come in and insist on outright grabbing someone's total paycheck.  Yet that's precisely what Johnny Preston did in May 2012 ... and it's pretty much what he does every day for a living.  The club owner tried for months to work out a satisfactory compromise yet Johnny Preston insisted that he has the right to come in and strong-arm outright bald-face steal a paycheck from another caller, any time he wants to.

 
Naturally, I spoke out against such wrongdoing. This protest had nothing to do with money.  It is only about doing what's right.  Any person who builds, finances, promotes and grows a club has earned the right to call for their own club.  It was completely wrong for Johnny Preston to come in and outright steal someone's paycheck in May 2012.  I tried for months to reach a compromise.  Ultimately, crooked swindling robbers at FunDancers decided to go behind my back and collude with Johnny Preston and commit a robbery.

 
The robbers stole everything I owned.  They stole my paycheck for that day.  When I continued to protest about how wrong it all was, the swindling cheaters ran a successful smear campaign.  They stole my club. They stole thousands of dollars that the deadbeat club still owes to this day.  They stole my entire life's work.  I lost thousands of so-called "friends" (who, as it ends up, are all totally fake anyway, so it's not a big loss).

  

Although I lost, big-time, by speaking out against crime and robbery, I actually gained something of great value that money cannot buy.  I gained the honor of refusing to participate in theft. I gained the knowledge that I will not tolerate cheating swindling nasty rotten wrongdoers.  I gained the pride that comes from choosing right over wrong.

  

Do you have that same pride?  You do have a choice.  You can go dance to Johnny Preston.  If you do that, you participate in, endorse and profit from strong-arm robbery and out-right theft.  Or you can do the right thing instead.  You can refuse to participate in wrongdoing.

  

Do you have what it takes to Do The Right Thing?