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.

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?

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.

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?

Help the Children

A little kid approached his mommy. He asked, "Mommy, are there any square dancers in our family? Are we in any way related to FunDancers?".

The kid's mommy replied, "I never really thought about it. Why do you ask about your relatives?".

The kid explained, "Well, someone offered to build me a top-notch website at his cost. If I'm related to square dancers then I'll offer an amount which is below cost. But if I'm related to FunDancers then I'll just bald-face steal the work instead".

So ... go ahead and ask yourself a question. Do you honor, reward and celebrate the vile acts of cheating, stealing, theft and robbery? If the answer is "no" (as it should be) then you have one very simple task on your agenda. Simply avoid events staged by robbers.

When you make the right choices, you help improve the world and you'll feel better too. Start improving the world today by avoiding organizations and people who rob, cheat, swindle and defraud.

Hey Elmer Fudd!

Hey, Elmer Fudd! Are you weddy for more wobbin'? As you awweady know, wascally weasels outright stole a square dance cwub fwum the wightful owners. Today they use the wobbery woot (thousands of stowen dowwars) to hire dirty wotten wapscallions who wike to caww for cwooks. It ain't wight. Twy to avoid such immowwal wobbing wascals, okay?

Old-Fashioned vs. New-Fangled

The old-fashioned path to success: invest lots of time and money to build a square dance group. After you invest thousands of your dollars and years of your time, you can relax and enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

But that's so old-fashioned.

The new-fangled way, and the way chosen by FunDancers, it to dupe someone else into building up a nice club for you. Be patient!  After the fledgling enterprise grows and eventually becomes self-sufficient, then you can swoop in and steal the club.

If your crime victim gripes about being robbed, plan and carry out a smear campaign.

You'll have to admit that the above strategy is ... successful.

The lowdown cheating swindling scumbags who stole FunDancers get to enjoy a nice square dance every week in their own hometown. They did not invest all the time or money required to build up a club. Instead, they waited until someone else made that investment. Then they outright stole the results of someone else's work.

The old-fashioned way is to build. The new-fangled way is to steal. The old-fashioned process involves paying your bills. The new-fangled way is to run up a huge debt and then default on that debt. Instead of paying what you rightfully owe, wait until your victim goes out of town, steal every last cent you can, then use the loot to hire accomplices. If anyone protests, paint them as a lunatic.

Don't laugh. The strategy does seem to work.

So ... if you want to validate and reward people who cheat, swindle, lie and rob, then you'll want to dance at FunDancers. But if you cannot support the ideals of theft, double-crossing, defamation, and robbery loot, then you will want to choose a different venue instead.

You might be wondering about my purpose. First, I do not want my club back. It's too late for that. While it would be nice to get reimbursed for at least some of the many thousands of dollars which were outright stolen from me, that's only a side issue. The main thing is that we must stop rewarding crooks and robbers. In a proper world, theft and swindling should not lead to prosperity. FunDancers must be shut down, strictly because it is so horribly wrong for bad people to profit from robbing good people.

With so many good honest dances in the region, why on Earth would you patronize a dishonest swindling cheating stolen club who doesn't pay their bills?

Guest columnist

This week we feature a guest writer. A total jerk recently sent in an abusive taunting message. Let's read and learn.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Arthur Wills <agwills@gvtc.com> wrote:
> I always enjoy a psycho.
> Especially one that is illiterate.
> Seems like you paste the same message every time.

I write about the crimes of stealing, swindling, cheating, defamation and robbery. You helped dirty rotten crooks get clean away with these atrocities for over a year.

If you want different crime stories, you need to commit different crimes.

> I guess your vocabulary is as stunted as your caller dates.
> I noticed they dumped your worthless butt from the
> caller's lab and from Fun Valley.

I noticed you seem amused by robbery, swindling, crime and defamation.

I invested years of hard work and thousands of dollars into building up a business. Lowdown scumbag crooks (including you) outright stole my business from me and my spouse.

What gives you the right to steal our money and our business from us? What gives you the right to be amused because we were swindled, cheated, lied to and smeared?

Let's analyze your own term ... "worthless". Back when I was investing lots of time and money into building the club which you eventually stole, I was always proudly introduced as the club's "very own internationally-known caller". But after you rob, cheat, swindle and smear me, from that point on I'm suddenly "worthless". I'm not even welcome at dances which are financed with the robbery loot.

So, in your view, someone has "worth" if they will build up a club for you to steal. After you rob someone, that same builder is now "worthless".

Switching topics, what gives YOU the right to steal a business from someone who invested thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours into building it up?

Anyone who would endorse that crime, or even worse, be amused by it, is truly "worthless".

> Looks like everyone caught on to your psychotic act.

Not quite "everyone". Most people were not fooled when experienced capable swindlers used a tried-and-true formula.

Some con artists spread the malicious lie that their crime victim had gone insane. It's a common ploy used by petty crooks who want to rob someone. The cheap lowdown scumbag dirty rotten trick only works when dealing with ignorant gullible fools.

I notice that the tactic worked perfectly on you.

By the way, what gives you the right to rob someone? How do you justify being amused because someone was cheated and swindled? In other words, WHAT ON EARTH is WRONG with YOU????

> Keep the emails coming, I like a good laugh from time to time.

Ditto and likewise.

Let's recap. You are amused by crime, right? When someone gets ripped off, it's entertaining ... correct?

If it just so happens that YOU are robbed and cheated and swindled, then you'd expect all of your so-called "friends" to laugh at you, right?

You are truly one sick and twisted individual.

> Where are you now? Have they committed you yet?

Where are YOU now? Have they thrown you in jail yet for robbery and slander?

> Your past friend
> Art

Let's get one thing straight. You never were (and will never be) _my_ friend. Friends don't lie, cheat, rob, swindle, defame, rip off and taunt each other. Friends are not amused when crimes happen to others.

Only a total jackass like you would ever believe that YOUR fake friendship is a coveted commodity which can be withheld for the purpose of punishing someone because they got robbed.

You are a sick perverted scumbag. I don't associate with liars, cheaters, crooks, swindlers, defamers, gossips, etc ... nor people who aid, abet and endorse crime.

The End

PS - what gives you the right to rob, cheat, swindle, defraud and defame others and then be amused by it?

Help vs. Hinder

If you enjoy robbery, cheating, crime, lying and swindling at your square dances then you're in luck. Today's event features all this and more.

Today's featured Profiteer (i.e. someone who gains from other people's loss) has already "retired" from calling many times. Apparently the lure of grabbing more stolen robbery loot is enough to un-retire a profiteer.

You can always get the latest crime-ring news from a particular stolen website which previously contained only good solid square dance info but now features dead callers and/or full-page ads from new callers who have not yet learned to call but have completely mastered the arts of slander and defamation. I actually prefer the original version from years past. Alas, that site was taken down because someone came in and stole the site from the original founder who then refused to allow his programming code to be used to promote and encourage criminal activities.

Always remember: it's easier to steal a club than to start one. It's easier to lock someone out of the website he created than to actually come up with your own idea. It's easier to slander and defame someone than it is to build a successful career. It's easier to believe liars and cheaters than to admit the distasteful truth, even when that truth stares you right in the face.

Executive summary: there is no rightness nor justification whatsoever about the batch of crooks who stole FunDancers from the club's originators and founders. They committed an unprovoked and outrageous robbery. The lying cheating swindlers who ended up as beneficiaries of this robbery are a disgrace to square dancing and to the human race. It's totally shockingly flabberghasting that any of you immoral enablers actually endorse and support these crimes. By enabling robbers and swindlers to prosper, you are guilty by association.

Can You Help?

Some crooks outright stole a square dance club (and thousands of dollars) from the people who spent years building the club. When the crime victims refused to silently take a robbin', the crooks tried their dead-level best to lie and slander their victims out of business permanently.

For example, the lying cheating swindlers refused to pay even one penny toward the hundreds of dollars they legitimately owed on the website for the club which they outright stole, yet they gladly paid NEW money to set up a NEW website whose only purpose was to defame and lie about their innocent victims and try to run them out of business.

So, it's not like the cheaters lack money to pay their bills. It's just that they use stolen money to inflict harm and to tear down clubs and careers which take years to build.

You might wonder, "How can I help?". The answer is simple.

Stop supporting the dirty rotten thieving sneaky cutthroat robbers.

It really is that easy. Stop endorsing and rewarding crime. Stop helping people who steal, swindle and cheat.

A very quick thought for today

Conformity is doing what everyone else does, regardless of what's right.

Morality is doing what's right, regardless of what everyone else does.

Do the Right Thing

Lowdown bandits outright stole the FunDancers club from the very people who started, built, promoted and grew the club.

Now they invite you to come help spend the robbery loot. Are you really stupid enough to believe their lies? Are you really so desperate for entertainment that you'll patronize a club which you dang well know  was outright stolen and swindled from the people who built the club? Do you think that ignoring a problem makes it go away? Are you really that naive?

Here's an alternative. Don't support robbery and theft! Instead, urge the lying cheating swindling crooks to return the money they stole. Even if they do give back the thousands of dollars they outright stole (which will never happen, but even if the thieves do make restitution) it still will not set things completely right. But returning the stolen loot will definitely improve a terrible situation.

Don't participate in crime. Don't help robbers spend loot. Don't let cheating lying swindlers get away with theft scot-free.

Do the right thing instead. Without a doubt, you know the difference between right and wrong. The only question is whether you have enough gumption to do the right thing. Avoid cheating lying swindling robbers who steal from honest hard-working people. Find a good wholesome dance to go to instead.

I Was Wrong

Back when I first realized that swindlers had stolen the square dance club which my spouse and I organized, founded, promoted, built and grew, I was NOT alarmed. I thought, "Surely the robbers cannot attract any people because surely the nice upstanding dance community will never tolerate dishonesty or theft.". I just _knew_ that square dancers were good honest people. 

Boy oh boy, I was clearly WRONG! 

I TOTALLY over-estimated the honesty and integrity of the square dance community.

The local dance community blindly supported the lying cheating swindling stealing robbers. The dancers believed filthy raunchy vicious lying rumors which were started and spread by the people who robbed me. The idea of checking with me first (to find out if the rumors were true) never occurred to anyone. Dancers gossiped with wild abandon. In addition to being a robbery victim, I became the target of a defamation campaign and an outcast in my own home town.

When I refused to silently suffer as a victim of robbery and lynching, the crooks who robbed me set up a website to smear my name.  The dirty rotten lying stealing cheating swindlers tried their dead-level best to put me completely out of business worldwide. 

Think about it:  how often do you see a website whose _only_ purpose is to smear an internationally-known square dance caller and try to run him completely out of business?  The answer is "never".  You NEVER see this because there are certain lowdown atrocious acts which are so vile and despicable that people simply NEVER do those criminal acts.

How would you like it if someone robbed YOU and then set up a website to smear YOUR name?

Yet in fact the rotten crummy swindling robbing cheating scumbags who stole my club (and cheated me out of thousands of dollars) did indeed set up a smear-site for the sole purpose of defamation.

The lying cheating rotten crooks went to my own website and found my schedule of future calling dates. They contacted every last one of my future bookings and tried to cancel those engagements. They told outright lies such as "he won't show up" or "he quit calling" or "he's deathly ill and cannot contact you himself". They did these vile despicable unspeakable horrific acts strictly to cause my wife and me financial harm, and specifically because of one fact:  when cheaters and swindlers stole my club and thousands of dollars from me, I refused to take the robbing silently.

Such criminal acts of defamation and harassment are absolutely horrible and totally unprecedented in the square dance world.

Yet, even then, I was not overly worried. I just KNEW that the nice upstanding dance community would observe the crummy evil dirty nasty smear tactics of the cheating lying swindlers and that the dancers would realize that those crimes are just TOTALLY WRONG and unheard of. I fully trusted that the good people in the dance community would steer clear of the evil name-smearing gossipy lying rumor-mongering cheating stealing slanderers and defamers.

Well, guess what?  I was totally WRONG again.

I mistakenly thought that local square dancers were good honest people.  I would have never guessed that people who purport to be "friends" would actually side with cheaters, swindlers, robbers, liars and crooks. I was so totally utterly wrong.

To be fair, the vast majority of my so-called "friends" completely DROPPED OUT of square dancing forever due to the vicious criminal acts of a small band of dirty lowdown cheating robbers. Yet a surprising number (actually, any number greater than "zero" is a surprising number) of so-called "friends" turned completely and permanently against me and my spouse after we were the victims of an unprovoked and unjustified robbery committed by cold calculating experienced swindlers and cheaters.

NOT ONE "friend" stood up to say "HEY, this is ROBBERY and it's just SO WRONG!"  NOT ONE local dancer has ANY morals whatsoever.  As far as I can tell, they ALL support and endorse (or at least tolerate) crime and theft. They continue to participate in the stolen club and profit from the robbery, despite repeated pleadings from the crime victims to please STOP supporting robbery, cheating, lying, theft, slander, crime, etc.

Having lost all faith in the goodness and integrity of the local dance population, all I can say is ... SHAME ON YOU. 

SHAME ON YOU!

Your mother taught you better than that, you immoral CHEATING swindler-supporting LIAR-ENABLING back-stabbing FALSE-FRIEND flat-wrong TWO-FACED loot-spending TURN-COAT money-grubbing IGNORANT easily-misled RAUNCHY confused INDECENT vile DESPICABLE unethical DEFAMATORY vicious LOW-DOWN dirty ROTTEN untrustworthy GOSSIPS.

I can only hope that every last crime-supporting false-friend loot-spender gets robbed and cheated and swindled and lied to and gossiped about and taunted and shamed and defrauded and slandered ... and then I hope that all of your fake two-faced "friends" laugh hysterically at your plight. Then you'll finally understand what you have done. 

Your total lack of morals and your enthusiastic support for cheating swindling robbers has damaged square dancing in the local area beyond repair.  The region will NEVER recover from the disastrous fact that YOU fully supported theft and robbery. 

For all practical purposes, the very minute that you decided to support swindling cheating gossiping lying robbers, you signed a death certificate for square dancing.  You had the opportunity to do the right thing, and as far as I can tell, you just flat let that opportunity pass you by.

Yep, I was totally wrong.  I mistakenly believed there was at least one grain of decency in the local dance community.  I never dreamed that square dancers would enthusiastically help crooks rob honest hard-working people. I totally under-estimated the lack of morals, the power of gossip, the delight of joining a lynch mob and the lure of spending robbery loot.

People need to admit when they are wrong.

I admit it.  I was completely wrong.  I mistakenly believed that square dancers were much better people than they actually are.

It's Your Turn

This weekend (just like every weekend) the stolen club in Schertz uses stolen robbery loot to hire a caller who is willing to accept stolen cash to call at a stolen club for people who robbed, cheated, swindled, bilked, hoodwinked, slandered, defamed and committed crimes which originated with secret meetings held while the club originators, organizers and founders were out of town.
  
If you enjoy supporting outright theft and crime, come be with other people just like you, i.e. people who profit from crime and who support theft, dishonesty, cheating and swindling.

  
While you're at at, please start looking for a new crime victim.  It's important.  Although the dirty rotten lowdown robbers did manage to steal several thousand dollars from Nasser and Jeanna, those stolen funds can't last forever.  You desperately need to trick, hoodwink, deceive, bilk, swindle, and rob a new gullible victim so that the long string of loot-enabled dances can continue.

Here's a thought.  What if the next victim is YOU?  Wouldn't that be great?  After all, if you enthusiastically support Ed Wedig and Ken & Fay Wheatley rampantly cheating Nasser and Jeanna out of thousands of dollars, hundreds of friends, dozens of calling dates, years of hard work, etc., then SURELY you can support a similar robbery / swindling / slander-fest / cheating happening to YOU, right?  Wow, what a great idea!
  
So, get busy!  Start building up your OWN club.  Invest thousands of dollars and years of work into your OWN group.  Build it up to the point where it finally starts to pay off after years of your hard work and thousands of your own dollars.  You'll have the biggest club in the region.  Enjoy it for a few weeks, then watch as ruthless dishonest crooked swindling lying robbers steal it away from you and smear your name into the mud.
 
THEN, you can laugh at your OWN plight ... just like you're amused today because someone ELSE was robbed.

Just think ... you can try to convince your former "friends" to stop supporting crime, only to be rebuked at every attempt.  Yes, a taste of your own medicine will do you a lot of good, you ROTTEN ROBBERY-SUPPORTING CRIME-ABETTING CROOK-HELPING SLANDEROUS DEFAMATORY SWINDLER-ENABLING TWO-FACED IMMORAL INDECENT VILE DESPICABLE JERKS.

 
But that's all comes later (AFTER you invest thousands of dollars and years of hard work into your own group, only to have it stolen by swindling lying cheating robbers).  Let's talk about the HERE and NOW.  THIS weekend, go ahead and enjoy the use of stolen robbery loot to pay a caller four times what they were paying the club's founder, to call for one-fourth the crowd. While you're at it, discuss various ways to build up square dancing.  Yes indeed, it's the eternal question, "How can we make square dancing grow?".  Well, for starters, STOP CHEATING AND ROBBING THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THE CLUBS.

Just remember:  it's YOUR turn to get robbed and cheated next.  So, start investing.  The sooner you put thousands of dollars and years of hard work into your club, the sooner the robbing lying cheating swindlers can take it away from you, smear your name into the mud, and amuse all your former "friends".

Holiday Notice

Due to a religious holiday, the local crime ring is inactive this week. But don't worry.  Next Sunday they go right back to cheatin', lyin', gossipin', stealin', name-smearin', robbin', swindlin' and lootin'.
 
Let's face facts. Crooks and robbers have infested the square dance activity. It's much worse than "we've got a problem". It is probably THE single biggest theft (approx. $8500) in the _entire_ history of square dancing. And __YOU__ endorse the "Biggest Crime in Square Dance History" if _you_ continue to support events financed with stolen funds and run by cheating thieving lying swindlers.

Do you have enough backbone to do the right thing? For almost a full year, I have urged you to avoid dishonest events.  It's time to ask yourself a question.  Have you even _tried_ to do that ONE right thing which actually addresses the problem? Have you stayed away from the liars, robbers, cheaters, swindlers and gossips?

If so, congratulations! If not, there's still time.  You can still help straighten out this mess.  Here's the one and only thing you must do: Find a dance which does NOT involve stolen funds, cheaters, swindlers, gossips, robbers, liars, etc. Then go to that honest dance instead of a lying, cheating, swindling, stolen, defamatory, fraudulent event.
 
Help put the bad guys out of business. Don't let robbers, cheaters, swindlers, liars and defamers get clean away with their crimes. Stop supporting robbery.  Don't condone the biggest theft in square dance history.  Put an end to crime. 

Find a good clean event at an honest club instead.

Make the right choice

Something to do in your spare time:

1. Go to the police station and wait until someone comes in and reports being robbed.
2. Make fun of that person.  Call him a liar.  Call him nasty names. 
3. Demand that the crime victim never contact you again.  Cancel all future business dealings with the person who got robbed.  Threaten to beat him up.
4. Tell everyone that the robbed person is crazy and therefore deserves to be cheated and swindled.  Drag that person's name through the mud.  Call him a liar again.  Threaten to have him arrested.
5. Make friends with the robbers.  Help the crooks spend the loot.
6. Repeat every Sunday.

If you go to FunDancers in Schertz, you're helping robbers get ahead by cheating and swindling.

You're supposedly a grownup.  Why do you need constant reminders that it's wrong to steal, lie and cheat?
 
So ... stop doing wrong!  Do the right thing instead!  Do NOT support square dance clubs which rob, cheat, steal, swindle, bilk, hoodwink, defame or defraud people.  Is that too much to ask?  Do NOT help robbers spend any loot.

You only have a limited amount of spare time.  Choose honest activities.  You'll be happier.