Posted on 10/22/2011 7:39:05 AM PDT by macquire
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.
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When word came out last week that he would support this, I was dumbfounded. At that point I knew he wasn’t aware that this was nothing but a pro-Socialist/NAZI anti-Semitic mob. I’m happy that he has reconsidered.
Good deal and a slap at the Marxists.
Where was he during the Tea Party protests?
Holder’s gaggle should smuggle some guns into the protestors in order that this war against the left begin. It’s coming sooner or later and it might as well be now!
He probably was told it had something to do with Lipton!
I’m kind of interested in how the unions will take this news.
They will just still call for the Jews to be chased out of America, and claim that they are using Jew magic to alter our DNA.
Most members don't know who Lech Walesa is much less the country he is from, you betcha' dupa!
Lech Walesa can do us a big favor by making sure his refusal to join this movement has the same amount of news coverage as the firstannouncement- even more, i hope
I’m wondering how the DUmmies and the OWSies will take this news! I guess they’re out of Lech now! Hee! Hee!
Good news.
Maybe they can invite Prince Charles instead.
Not many Europeans have a clue about where we stand.
It wouldn’t take much. This is the first I’ve heard about the possibility of Walesa attending and I’m hardly wandering through life with my eyes closed.
Do you have any idea why it is written like this: “#Occupy” ?
Not interfereing with the domestic politics of another nation?
The TEA party protests were and are, very specifically targeted at the taxing and spending policies of the US government in general and the Obama administration in particular.
The Occupy Wall Street protests paint themselves as economic protests, though as Mr. Walensa learned they are actually very political. So he then decided not to attend.
Speaking of foreign interlopers, did you see the Canadian idiot on the statue in the park today demanding that Bloomberg step down?
My faith in Walechsa has been restored.
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