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Lech Walesa, former Polish president, to visit New York in support of Occupy Wall Street
NYDailyNews ^ | October 12, 2011 | Corky Siemaszko

Posted on 10/13/2011 4:47:31 PM PDT by decimon

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."

Protest organizers said they will welcome Walesa with open arms.

"He fought very, very hard for the rights of all working people," said Doug Forand of the 99 New York campaign, which is affiliated with OWS.

Support from a world-class working-class hero like Walesa puts more pressure on Wall St. and on the government to get "the wealthiest 1% to do their share to create jobs and get us through this economic crisis," he said.

A staunch anti-communist and former Polish president who helped steer his country to a free market economy, Walesa was invited to join the three-week-old protest by organizer Matthew Blair.

Walesa has warned of a "worldwide revolt against capitalism" if the Wall St. protests are ignored.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lechwalesa; occupywallst; occupywallstreet; poland; walesa
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1 posted on 10/13/2011 4:47:34 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Idiot!


2 posted on 10/13/2011 4:48:41 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: decimon

Love old Lech. But he must be getting senile. He led the revolt in Poland against communism, not capitalism.


3 posted on 10/13/2011 4:49:32 PM PDT by casablanca
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To: decimon

So,someone who supports the free market and capitalism is joining this protest....? WTH?


4 posted on 10/13/2011 4:49:57 PM PDT by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: decimon

Big difference, Lech.

When you demonstrated you were trying to lead Poland from socialism to a free market system.

Now you are foolishly supporting a capitalist society being swallowed up by socialism.

I’ve lost a great deal of respect that I had for your previously.


5 posted on 10/13/2011 4:50:25 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: decimon

Talk about a mixed message!


6 posted on 10/13/2011 4:51:25 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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To: decimon

He needs to turn around and go home. I find it repulsive supporting here what he rejected over there.

Go home Lech, mind your own business.


7 posted on 10/13/2011 4:51:31 PM PDT by dforest
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To: decimon

Walesa joins the Communists


8 posted on 10/13/2011 4:51:47 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: decimon
I'll believe it when I see it. Walesa knows tyranny firsthand. He will get one whiff of what is behind these morons and book the next flight out.
9 posted on 10/13/2011 4:52:34 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: decimon; FrdmLvr

From afar, this probably looks like the “Arab Spring” to some people. Plus, he is a former labor union leader, and this “Occupy Wall Street” scheme is a union invention.


10 posted on 10/13/2011 4:53:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Better to ask forgiveness than permission.)
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To: decimon

Hope he doesn’t mind waiting a long while to speak. He’s a white male, and the progressive victim cult rules demand that he wait for the minorities, womyn and LGBTQAEIOUandsometimesY people to speak. Plus, they won’t know who he is.

Lech, don’t they have FOX in Poland? Stop watching NBC and maybe you’ll get a better picture of these sad hippies. Well, maybe the smell will clue you in.


11 posted on 10/13/2011 4:55:26 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: decimon
You would think that a person that fought Marxism as hard as he did would be able to detect a whiff of a Marxist from a hundred yards...upwind.
12 posted on 10/13/2011 4:55:33 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: decimon

All expense paid trip complements of OWS


13 posted on 10/13/2011 4:56:00 PM PDT by molson209
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To: decimon
My longstanding respect for the man just vaporized.
14 posted on 10/13/2011 4:56:50 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: decimon

Lech’s just uninformed, getting only the leftest media edition of what’s going on.....he’s ignorantly equating it to Solidarity.....

Let’s pray his eyes are opened to see when he gets there that it is the commies who are behind this......


15 posted on 10/13/2011 4:57:12 PM PDT by Arlis (- Virginia loghome/woods-dweller/Jesus lovin'/Bible-totin'/"gun-clinger")
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To: decimon

If somebody could please inform Mr. Walesa that he’s supporting a bunch of spoiled commie brats he just might wisen up a little.
Good grief.


16 posted on 10/13/2011 4:57:20 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: decimon

Lech, Leck mich im Arsch!


17 posted on 10/13/2011 4:57:36 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: decimon

It was well known in Poland years ago that Walesa was actually a tool of the Communists. He was sort of emplaced into Solidarity after some shenanigans.


18 posted on 10/13/2011 5:00:54 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: decimon

Does he even know what these protests are about?

We don’t even know. Neither do the protesters.


19 posted on 10/13/2011 5:01:10 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: casablanca
He needs to take about 4800MG of Lecithin per day.

Staves off Alzheimers.

20 posted on 10/13/2011 5:01:47 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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