‘West Virginia Belly Dancers for Single Pay’: See Today’s Strangest Supreme Court Protesters
- Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:29pm by
Mytheos Holt
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There are many ways to exercise one’s right to protest and peaceably assemble, and we at the Blaze are certainly not interested in stopping any nonviolent means. However, sometimes a form of protest comes along that compels us to ponder just what on earth it has to do with the issue it’s supposedly set up to protest. A very good example of this variety of political action showed up today on the Supreme Court steps — a group of belly dancers who support single payers.
What belly dancing has to do with single payer health care, we do not feel qualified to comment. However, apparently the stunt paid off, as the two women involved (pictured above) got a lot of attention, both from Twitter and from CNN.
First, the Twitter reactions:
Then there was CNN’s coverage:
So just who were these strange dancing sirens for socialized medicine? The viral news site Buzzfeed explains:
Russell Mokhiber, the founder of Single Payer Action, a group that’s calling for a complete elimination of insurance companies and a switch to a single payer system like those in Canada or the U.K., says one of the women was his wife, Angela Petry and the other was her friend, Jennifer Carpenter-Peak. Both are belly dancing teachers.
“The idea was to draw attention to the cause,” Mokhiber says. “When you have belly dancers, people pay attention.”
Yes, indeed they do. Now, based on their ideological affiliation, you might be thinking these two women were happy with the eventual result. Actually, despite being raging socialists, they didn’t get what they wanted either:
The dancers, who call themselves The West Virginia Belly Dancers For Single Pay, have put on this act before. In 2009, they danced outside the office of congresswoman who doesn’t support single payer. Later that year, a group of Seattle belly dancers adopted the idea and staged a “Shake It Up For Single Payer” event of their own.
The group was hoping that the Supreme Court would strike down “Obamacare” and rule it unconstitutional, with the (slightly far-fetched) notion that policymakers might as a result, consider a single payer system void of insurance companies.[...]
And the only connection these fiery walking non sequiturs offer for their connection to the cause they support? One of their husbands thinks “most belly dancers would support single-payer.” Well, then.
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OneTermPresident
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 1:53pmTeachers…. ? I’ve seen belly dancers before… and these would be two of the worst at belly dancing I’ve ever seen.
Report Post »freedomislikeair
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 7:23amclear out congress. then one term, no retirement, healthcare only while in office. teaparty it’s time to occupy washington. defend the constitution.the country was founded on unfair taxation by lifetime politicians. it is our duty to protect america by protecting the constitution. remember they work for us, not us for them ! i refuse to be thier financial servant. it’s my money , let me buy my own insurance, and i guarantee it won’t be from the govt. money wasting, heathcare deciding for me what they think i need. tea party spring !
Report Post »longun45
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 6:14amThey are mentally ill – liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »ProudAmericanVeteran
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 2:50amI am from WV & I am embarrassed! Please know that most good people from WV are not like these women.
Report Post »behonest
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 11:43pmOf course it is part of code pink I think they had to hire a few girls because they are so ugllllllllly. You know they protested at Sen Lieberman’s office because he was against single payer hint hint socialized medicine. That’s what communist do!!! We were warned by our Founders and Ronald Reagan. Your grandchildren are going to ask “where were you”
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:27pmWell, when people think of belly dancers they usually think of Arab countries, AKA MUSLIMS. We see how the Islamists are working with the Communists and Socialists, so I don‘t see what’s so strange about them appearing to support Obamacare.
Report Post »FreedomWitness
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 9:26pmPlease put your clothes back on and put bags over your faces you hideous tarts.
Report Post »MaryofAz
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:42pmMaggots.
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:15pmBellies? More like “Six Pack Ab” dancers.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:22pmYeah well part of the thing is, I am not willing to be the single payor for you – belly-dancing geniuses. You can pay for yourself – that is my definition of single payor – every single person is responsible for being the single payor for himself.
I am sick and tired of paying for others against my will
I will NOT compl
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:36pmEeeeeww!
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:34pmCows
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:20pmI wonder if THEY know who Karl Rove is?
Report Post »Delores at CH WV
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:04pmOnly in America . . . are they volunteering or getting quick cash? These “single payer” folks will use this video to get a job back home at one of the numerous, local strip clubs because their 99 weeks of unemployment just run out. Thanks alot ladies for promoting jobs in WV!
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:54pmCNN said these belly dancers were protesting Obamacare implying they were conservative kooks.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:04pmthey’ve probably had an abortion a every other month for years by now.
Report Post »Legion5
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:03pmAfter everyone is arrested for not paying their tax mandated consumption for healthcare these belly dancers will be dancing for single pennies!!!
Report Post »mary12153
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:51pmDo you s’pose they would be willing to teach those 16,000 IRS Agents how to belly dance?
Report Post »Mike N
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:49pmI will NOT comply.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:19pmThere is a Fema Camp near us all. They better haul my dead body there I guess.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:20pmyou don‘t have to there is no penalty if you don’t pay the fine, our goverment is full of idiots.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:14pmchange your last name. I am considering being a mexican illegal alien in the usa myself. just need to get rid of this italian last name and get myself a tan.
Report Post »mongastanman
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:45pmThey only want to be payed in singles? Aren’t most people who go to those kind of places already that cheap? I didn’t know they needed the SC to make it a law!
Report Post »mongastanman
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:03pmI’m too scared to watch the video, are they dancing to, “All the single ladies, all the…” OK, now I can see those football players on GLEE making fools of themselves, that’s a better image than those hippies!
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:39pmThey are not belly dancers, they are stoned hippies!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 6:38pmthey are whores wanting free stuff go figure.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 8:11pmNot everyone who sees thing differently is a whore or a hippie.
Report Post »Stick to critical thinking and facts and put away the “broad”brush.
No Pun intended.
Dont act like a demagogue
kaydeebeau
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:38pmYeah well part of the thing is, I am not willing to be the single payor for you – belly-dancing geniuses. You can pay for yourself – that is my definition of single payor – every single person is responsible for being the single payor for himself.
I am sick and tired of paying for others against my will
I will NOT comply
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 7:18pmI am so sick of it as well. I see all the illegals I pay for, the black and white and polka dot illegitimate children running around while their fat mothers use their ebt cards for booze while talking on their new iphones while I get off of work tired grouchy watch my paychecks go in the blink of an eye after paying for inflated fuel and food costs, in my old for truck that I keep fixing instead of buying new, call my husband and think maybe I am just done working but I know I am done paying for others.
Report Post »wifezilla
Posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:34pmThis belly dancer (7 years of classes – several performances) thinks anyone who wants single payer is an idiot.
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