Posted on 09/27/2015 10:48:42 AM PDT by marshmallow
More than three decades on from the events that shot him to fame, Lech Walesa, the co-founder of Solidarity, is enjoying himself as Poland’s ‘enfant terrible.’
GDANSK – It was difficult to know whether Lech Walesa was cynical, joking or dead serious. Maybe all of the above.
His direct approach to, and simplistic views of, a complicated international reality can embarrass the listener. Nevertheless, it is clear that the former president of the Polish Republic – a Nobel Prize laureate, who co-founded Solidarity, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and became an icon of liberty and freedom – can allow himself to be his country’s enfant terrible. And it seems that he enjoys this position.
His answers to our questions solidified his image as an ardent Catholic and a conservative homophobe who opposes the absorption of immigrants, doesn’t appreciate US President Barack Obama and has an amusing solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict.
We – a group of Israeli journalists – met him earlier this month in his office at the European Solidarity Center and found him in a good mood.
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“We in Poland have small flats, low salaries and meager pensions. Watching the refugees on television, I noticed that they look better than us. They are well fed, well dressed and maybe even are richer than we are.”
We didn’t fight to end communism only to be enslaved by an even worse tyranny. Wake ‘em up, Lech!
His strong and controversial opinions also refer to the gay community.
“Homosexuals have to know that they are a minority and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the greatest heights.
“A minority should not impose itself on the majority.”
He also added that he believed gay people had no right to sit on the front benches in parliament and, if there at all, should sit in the back “or even behind a wall.”
“If the gay community consists of 30 percent of the population, they deserve to be represented with 30% in institutions. If they have only 1%, they should get only 1%. My belief is based on facts – they are a very small minority and have no chance of reaching parliament. They should know their place and shouldn’t impose themselves on society.”
0dungo pulled the Border Patrol off from Patrolling our Border.
0dungo PRETENDS to attack ISIS and even goes so far as MANIPULATING DATA to make it appear ISIS IS DOING WORSE THAN THEY REALLY ARE. Even HE covers for them by labeling them "the JV Team".
WAKE UP, AMERICA.. AND NOW EUROPE (HE SCREWED YOU TOO)
The author Yossi Melman is a condescending, douche-bag. He tries to portray Lech as a simpleton with and shallow understanding of the world. This writer, who has had no impact on world events, thinks he is more accomplished and a better statesman than. Hero who faced down the evil empire. What a putz.
One of my great pleasures was to take my then teenaged son to hear Lech Walesa speak. We were able to shake his hand and have a few words of conversation.
Quite an honor !
Lefties always assume the pose of superiority.
He sounds like someone I'd want for a neighbor.
Is the writer a homosexual?
What was the gate that opened to enable this invasion? Well, now we know why 0dungo bombed Libya and in a hurry and without Congress’ consent. Few knew at the time WHY 0dungo was so hot and heavy to bomb Libya. Well, now the reason is clear; open the gate for the flood of Caliphate into Europe!
Finally, some adult supervision.
He will take great pleasure when mosques appear in small town America, and when the tremendous Muslim baby population growth that we are funding will soon transform the schools, societal behavior, culture, and election trends. It is his dream and it is our unwanted future.
“If ???”
He’s 30 years late with that assertion.
There was a neck slicing in England. Nobody seemed to care. Now Europe is letting more headchoppers come in. What will they do when the neck cutting begins?
It was the Poles who were instrumental in breaking the muslim seige of Viena in 1683.
Eastern Europe will not surrender meekly like Western Europe has.
The West (US included) needs another Charles “The Hammer” Martel.
He’s right.
He helped a Pope bring down the communists and now he is watching a Pope try to bring them back to power over the whole globe.
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