At a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Zion, Illinois, in early 2021, Congressman Brad Schneider bragged, to a crowd of about forty voters, that he had helped secure P.P.P. loans for a dance studio that would benefit children in Illinois's 10th District.
P.P.P. loans were loans intended to relieve businesses impacted by Covid-19 -related shutdowns.
Upon investigation into the list of 10th District companies which received such loans, I determined that the dance studio Schneider was talking about was (most likely) Reverie Dance Academy in Buffalo Grove, owned by instructor Lacey Rust.
Reverie Dance Academy, Inc. received a $59,702 loan and a $56,983 loan, a total of $116,685.
[Source:
http://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/il/22600]
Reverie's P.P.P. loan was forgiven - and so were 92% of the P.P.P. loans, according to a report by the Small Business Administration - and at taxpayer expense.
[Source:
http://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1145040599/ppp-loan-forgiveness#:~:text=Yet%20nearly%20three%20years%20after,companies%20with%20mega-rich%20owners.]
Since these loans were pitched to the taxpayers and voters as loans and not as gifts, the fact that the loans were forgiven should reflect intent to commit voter fraud on the part of any and all politicians who ran on securing such loans.
Reverie Dance Academy is teaching young girls to dance in eroticized manners, while underdressed. Their being underdressed is always attributed to a need for the dancer to achieve maximum range of motion.
The choreography which Reverie teaches to girls ballet and jazz, but also more mature dancing, some of which would look more appropriate being done by the Rockettes (or even showgirls).
Granted, Reverie's choreography is not the most inappropriate dancing being done by girls in America today (although it's still problematic).
The bigger problem is with the dance studios that are teaching hip-hop moves that could be described as "freak dancing", which are obviously too adult.
Molly Long is one of the choreographers who is teaching this type of dancing to children.
And much of this is photographed and filmed, and shared on social media (including by Reverie).
This is not only a problem because it exposes kids to controversial music and dancing, and to leering crowds in person and over social media, but also because it exposes them to potential grooming by dance instructors.
Mitchell and Dusty Button, Mark Chavarria, Jordan Viscomi, David Silvas are some of the dance studio owners and dance instructors who have been charged with rape or statutory rape recently.
We should also not forget that Cirque du Soleil's recent choreography comes from Wade Robson, the Australian who was on good terms with Michael Jackson until he decided to speak out against him. Robson met Jackson as the prize after he entered and won a Jackson dance-alike contest at age seven, when the rules stated that contestants had to be at least eight. The holders of the contest suspended that rule due to audience demand that Robson win.
It is much easier to understand now, more so than thirty years ago, why Michael Jackson would agree to meet a boy who had once been considered too young to dance in the sexualized manner for which Jackson had become known.
Kids being funneled into Reverie Dance Academy, and other dance studios which teach their students to dress and dance in inappropriate manners for their ages, is also problematic, because of the widespread promotion of dancewear and athletic wear on social media.
This commercial promotion of young girls' clothing has tempted hundreds of mothers to start social media accounts on which their daughters model leotards.
The majority of these mothers are leading their daughters to believe that they are "brand ambassadors", promoting the given athletic wear brand, or dancewear brand. But some do not hide their intent to share images of their children for the purposes of helping them becoming fashion models.
Either way, it is necessary to ask ourselves why these women feel so comfortable sharing these images of their children on social media. We cannot know whether these children will regret having done this modeling when they become adults and gain the ability to give informed consent to do so.
The reason why many of these mothers feel comfortable, I suppose, is because they are getting paid by companies like SheIn, and other manufacturers of leotards and of athletic wear, to promote their products. The sheer number of sellers of dancewear and athletic wear, promoted on these girls' "mother-run" accounts, makes it difficult to guess exactly which brands may be consciously promoting the objectification and trafficking of girls. But SheIn seems to be among the most problematic, given that it is being investigated for forced labor.
[Source:
http://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/shein-china-congress-forced-labor-inquiry.html]
Through a combination of a sort of reactionary nihilism, and (often) an absent husband, these mothers are able to rationalize-away all concerns about the exploitation of images of their children and of the children themselves.
Changing subjects: There is currently a lawsuit in progress against pornography websites PornHub and GirlsDoPorn.
The makers of GirlsDoPorn were able to lure young women into doing coercive and exploitative pornographic films, by offering them opportunities to do tasteful modeling of athletic wear.
PornHub posted the content, and is being sued in addition to GirlsDoPorn, the original source of these videos. GirlsDoPorn has been shut down.
[Note:
You can watch a two-part interview, about some of the crimes committed by the makers of GirlsDoPorn, at the following addresses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHJW5j7cYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeAmI8v060]
The makers of GirlsDoPorn used grooming techniques to do what they did.
They offered tasteful modeling gigs, and then they repeatedly asked models to do porn until they eventually got a yes; and when that didn't work, they convinced women to come out to do a photography session, only to physically prevent them from leaving, and blackmail them into having sex on camera for publication (threatening to tell their families that they had done porn).
It's also noteworthy that what GirlsDoPorn did was reminiscent of the manner in which Jeffrey Epstein (possibly with the awareness of Victoria's Secret owner Leslie Wexner) posed as a model scout in order to get teenage girls to give him massages and sexual favors [Ghislaine Maxwell and Ivana Trump allegedly scouted girls as they were getting out of middle school or junior high school in the afternoons, as well].
Now, to tie this all back into athletics:
It was recently reported that, during the last months of his life, Jeffrey Epstein wrote a letter to Larry Nassar.
http://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/02/us/jeffrey-epstein-death-documents-larry-nassar/index.html
Nassar was an Olympics gymnastics coach who molested or raped at least 150 of his teenage female students.
What do you think Epstein said to him?
This is the pipeline to which young girls are potentially being exposed when they begin gymnastics, "rhythmic gymnastics", cheerleading, or dance lessons; or when they post photos on social media.
Be careful whom you allow to teach your children dance and sports. And be careful for whom you vote.
The fact that someone is (so far) a trusted member of our community, should not stop us from asking why that person would want to devote their career to teaching children to dance or do gymnastics (which inevitably involve placing one's hands on the child in order to pose them in certain positions).
Making money off the exploitation of children is pimping. Making money off the exploitation of children's images is pornography. If a child removes even a single glove while dancing onstage, it is stripping.
Involving children in these activities is a crime, and it should be prosecuted as such.
Post-Script, Part 1:
For more information about the safety of children on social media, please see the following articles and videos about the Wall Street Journal's recent investigation into pedophile networks on Instagram.
Be advised that some of this content will be upsetting, as it reports that children are being subjected to sex acts - including with animals - over social media, in what some have come to describe as "dark-web challenges".
http://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/meta-child-protection-dsa-warning/
http://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-745755
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056eneLvie0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2j1SneOcGk
Post-Script, Part 2:
For the sake of providing a historical context for the trafficking of girls from athletics to modeling to pornography, it may be helpful, for the reader, to watch the 1938 documentary Olympiad, directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
That documentary may help provide insight into the minds of Europeans during the early part of the twentieth century; not only Germans (who impressed the world when they ordered tens of thousands to perform simulated moves in the 1936 Olympic stadium in Berlin), but also the British and French, cultures that were, at the time, actively promoting participation in sports and athletics.
The content of Olympiad makes it clear that - to those people - attractiveness, sexuality, athletic prowess, displays of physical strength, civic pride, and national and racial superiority, were all intimately connected with one another.
Author's Note:
I have previously written on the topic of dance studios that may be seeking to exploit children; in an article titled "Six Locations in Schaumburg, Illinois Where Human Trafficking Is (or May Be) Occurring", originally published in May 2021.
Please read the following article to learn about several dance studios - and several locations in Schaumburg, Illinois - which, I believe, should be investigated for child exploitation and/or human trafficking:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/05/six-locations-in-schaumburg-illinois.html
I have also published articles on the topic of Brad Schneider's corruption. You can read those articles by clicking on the links below:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/07/rep-brad-schneiders-staffs-racist.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/02/where-does-congressman-brad-schneider.html
Written and published on June 10th, 2023.
Edited and expanded on June 11th and 16th, 2023.
Post-Scripts and Author's Note
written and added on June 16th, 2023.
