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Yeah Its Spin

(236 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:04 PM Jul 2012

Wondering about Lech Walesa?

According to the pukes Brietbart got to him...

From Freepuke site

The Polish champion of freedom and liberty, founder of Solidarity, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and first President of modern Poland Lech Walesa had been rumored to possibly be traveling to New York to stand with Occupy Wall Street protesters. Press accounts reporting this “breathless” news had given all of us pause. We suspected that the European news media had filtered out accurate information about the genesis of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). When Walesa’s comments hit the AP wire last week, my team immediately reached out to our Polish contacts. We made the point that the political themes of Occupy Wall Street may have started out with some of the principles that we share, but OWS themes were rapidly being morphed into anti-freedom and anti-liberty messages. At the core is the want for a big, powerful central government to dominate the lives of individual citizens.

(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2796450/posts

Note: When Walesa’s comments hit the AP wire last week, my team immediately reached out to our Polish contacts. (Meaning Brietbart)

Found this: Lech Walesa Changes His Mind About Occupy Wall Street
Using biggovernment.com plus other news sources, rapidly we painted an accurate picture of the groups training, leading, and organizing the “movement.” The movement is organized by anarchists, Code Pink, the American Communist movement, jihadists, anti-Israel, socialist, and anti- free enterprise interests. OWS folks are politically to the left of President Barack Obama.

At the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation in Warsaw, they were thankful to receive this information.

Based on our discussion and intervention, President Walesa is not going to get involved with the OWS. He is not comfortable with the “organizations” behind the movement. It was not a difficult discussion.

The lifetime of good work exercised by President Walesa has lifted people around the world fighting tyranny. Through the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation in Warsaw, Walesa has supported freedom and liberty around the world. As a man primarily responsible for vanquishing communism in Poland, Walesa has a personal bent toward helping the underdog and the downtrodden.

This spring, when President Obama visited Poland, President Walesa refused to meet with him

http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/10/lech-walesa-changes-his-mind-about-occupy-wall-street/

Link to biggov does not work, you would think they would leave it there since they were so proud of it?

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Wondering about Lech Walesa? (Original Post) Yeah Its Spin Jul 2012 OP
Too bad he became the pawn of the baggers but I'm not surprised catbyte Jul 2012 #1
Found this one not scrubbed, Yeah Its Spin Jul 2012 #2
Walesa lost all credibility... Archae Jul 2012 #3
This was discussed at the time I see... Yeah Its Spin Jul 2012 #4

catbyte

(34,504 posts)
1. Too bad he became the pawn of the baggers but I'm not surprised
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:25 PM
Jul 2012

Most anti-Communist activists become right wingers--look at the Cubans. It's sad but not surprising.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
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Archae

(46,364 posts)
3. Walesa lost all credibility...
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 03:51 PM
Jul 2012

When in one Polish election he smeared his opponent with anti-Semitic remarks about being a "crypto-Jew."

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