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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWondering 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 Walesas 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 Walesas 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?
catbyte
(34,504 posts)Most anti-Communist activists become right wingers--look at the Cubans. It's sad but not surprising.
Diane
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Yeah Its Spin
(236 posts)AP Interview: Walesa backs Wall Street protesters
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700187617/AP-Interview-Walesa-backs-Wall-Street-protesters.html
LOL another Romney screwup
Found the working link at Brietbart
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/10/21/Lech-Walesa-Not-Attending--OccupyWallStreet-in-New-York-After-Discovering-Hard-Left-Organizers
Archae
(46,364 posts)When in one Polish election he smeared his opponent with anti-Semitic remarks about being a "crypto-Jew."