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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-13-11 09:23 PMOriginal message Lech (Solidarity)Walesa, former Polish president, to visit New York in support of Occupy Wall Street Source: NY Daily NewsBy Corky Siemaszko Solidarity hero Lech Walesa is flying to New York to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters."How could I not respond," Walesa told a Polish newspaper Wednesday. "The thousands of people gathered near Wall Street are worried about the fate of their future, the fate of their country. This is something I understand."A former shipyard worker who led Poland's successful revolt against Soviet communism, Walesa said "capitalism is in crisis" and not just in America."This is a worldwide problem," he told the Lublin-based Dziennik Wschodni newspaper. "The Wall Street protesters have focused a magnifying glass on the problem."Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/occupy_wall_street/...
DoBotherMe (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-13-11 09:36 PMResponse to Original message 1. What a coup for the OWS! I bet the Unions show up to see Lech! I would love to hear him speak. Dana ; )
Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-13-11 09:42 PMResponse to Original message 3. Whatever else he may be . . . . . . he is a visible symbol of resistance to an unjust system.I can't wait to hear how FoxNews is going to ignore this. They sure as hell can't spin it.
Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-13-11 10:57 PMResponse to Original message 8. Oh Yeah! Freeper OWS haters dumbfounded over this
LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 03:44 PMResponse to Original message 13. Wow! Just wow! Wow! Just wow!This man was absolutely pivotal in the fall of Communism throughout Central and East Europe. His union's movement was the major catalyst for bringing down regime after regime.His is a wonderful voice of quiet authority.
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. 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.
LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 03:44 PMResponse to Original message 13. Wow! Just wow! Wow! Just wow!This man was absolutely pivotal in the fall of Communism throughout Central and East Europe. His union's movement was the major catalyst for bringing down regime after regime.
>snort< DUmmies missed that part.How long before they notice?
And now there is this just in:
pintobean (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-22-11 12:15 PMOriginal message biggovernment.com says Lech Walesa won't attend OWS I won't link to it, so I can't quote from it. Here's their headline: "Lech Walesa Not Attending #OccupyWallStreet in New York After Discovering Hard-Left Organizers"They claim that the decision was due to 'information' they provided.
Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-22-11 12:46 PMResponse to Original message 4. He's a pro-capitalist buddy of Thatcher and Reagan He endorsed Repubs in the US as recently as last year and is anti-choice, among a thousand other things that should give pause to anyone at this site. His announcement of support garnered 500+ recommendations on this site which I fund sort of hilarious and sort of horrifying, I think I was almost the only dissenting voice on that thread.Of course he is anti-left. He always has been.The lack of ideological understanding or historical accuracy is astounding here sometimes.
Kurovski (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-22-11 04:57 PMResponse to Reply #6 13. Yeah, solidarity and all that , but Lech is a big vodka bottle full of stupid. The lumbering idiot didn't even care that Reagan told unions to **** off.He's a big, pukey-faced homophobe.
Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-22-11 12:46 PMResponse to Original message 4. He's a pro-capitalist buddy of Thatcher and Reagan He endorsed Repubs in the US as recently as last year and is anti-choice, among a thousand other things that should give pause to anyone at this site. His announcement of support garnered 500+ recommendations on this site which I fund sort of hilarious and sort of horrifying, I think I was almost the only dissenting voice on that thread.Of course he is anti-left. He always has been.The lack of ideological understanding or historical accuracy is astounding here sometimes.And can not be tolerated.
