Re: PETITION for Freedom to Dance
19 Март 2009 г. 23:24
@Sambatogo,
if you need Onyourtoes to talk you out of believing you are loosing your mind, (not being a doctor), may I suggest you are in trouble ?
You either misjudge Richards, or you do not command the language well - just as you probably did not want to use the word "infestation by Canadians ", all you needed was to admit a mistake, or, say nothing, just do not defend such an unbecoming, and a disrespectful expression. I am not here to teach manners....but Richards would respect Sambatogo more.
Sambatogo commnted about "respect "
Just because Richard can respect a person wishing to commit a suicide, person who bets large sums of money on a stock market, gambles, drives motorcycle like a maniac without a helmet, stands up in a canoe not wearing a life jacket, uses a snowmobile on a thin ice, it does not mean Richards agrees with such actions. It has nothing to do with "respect".
Richards also respects Petition for Freedom to Dance, just disagrees the way it was set up, and questions the use, application and interpretation of the final numbers and the available data provided by the signors.
Sure it is "just a petition", but if it i "just" would that not indicate its decreased value ?
Keep on signing if you believe it is of a value, just ask yourselves , if the petition is signed by 3000 people, what will that mean ? That 3000 out of all people around the World want to dance free of restrictions ? Does it mean the rest of the World dancers did not sign because they :
A) do not want to dance in freedom, free of restrictions- enjoy their rules, cherish the restrictions, and punishments ? Would you say these people are probably also mutilating their bodies, visit dominatrices, sadomasochists ?
B) are scared, afraid of their even scarier , tyrant like organizations and what they could possibly do t them if they were identified as members ? WHAT do you think these organisations COULD DO to their members id the signed the petition ? I s it against their rules not to sign such petitions ?
C) did not know ? If the had known , "perhaps" half of them would have signed the petition ? NO, even better, "perhaps" 3/4 of them would have signed, and the rest belong under the above A) and B) ?
D) were on vacation, had no Internet access, do not speak English etc ?
E) think of other reasons...sick, blind, not allowed by the parents to use Internet without supervision , and the parents were not available ?
NOW WHAT ? You have 3000 signatures, as correctly stated elsewhere, representing 1500 dance couples . ( lets do not split hairs, some can be singles, I gave you few thousands extra, do not be picky )
You would not suggest that just one party of the dancing couple would agree to support the petition and the other half would not sign ? Of course the both partners they would sign.
So NOW we have 1500 dance couples who signed petition. What percentage of the total number of dancers who could have signed ( if they wanted ) does 3000 signatures ( or 1500 couples) represent ?
Majority, minority ?
Probably a vast minority, would you not say ? Was it not mentioned, your association alone has a few thousands freedom to dance signing members already ? Diamondgirl has mentined the country, no need to repeat it again.
Richards had received a directory which lists registered dancers, address, phones, the country they represent ( no mistakes there ). Richards does not want to say how many names are in the book, but if 3000 would represent the only people who wish to dance without restrictions - the result would be disappointing, even embarrassing for those wishing to make a statement with the petition.
Please realize , the current 900 has a ways to go to reach 3000 , in fact 2100, but good luck !
What Richards suspects  is that WDC would like to see signatures of a few , the more the better , of the better known dancers who belong to the IDSF "camp". These are the names which could be used to say: "See, I told you, even "such and such" are for freedom, look at the IDSF members signing: a true sign of the beginning of the IDSF's end ! ".....and so on.
More likely, as someone else had suggested, the e-mail list will be passed on, even sold, to dance competition organizers who would be willing to organize a comps. under the WDC sanctions, so that they could send out invitations to those who could be tempted, persuaded, after all that would the the opportunity to attend the competition they agreed to support - free of restrictions.
Richards respects the decisions people make to sign , or not sign, and respect the petition, but believes it will have as much effect as the spinning wheels of a car, stuck in the mud. Lots of noise and lots of smoke, but car goes nowhere, just becomes stuck a bit deeper.
But don't take if from Richards, wait and see, we all are young enough to live to see the outcome.
Richards only feels there are better things WDC to spend creative energy, better ways to get their train back onto the right tracks and into motion. Antagonism, underminding IDSF authority will not work.
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