Posted on 02/13/2006 9:07:30 AM PST by lizol
Gay Activists Protest Polish President During Chicago Visit
Bob Roberts Reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- Poland's President has completed an overnight stay in Chicago.
WBBM Newsradio 780's Bob Roberts reports that, before leaving the Windy City, President Lech Kaczynski laid a wreath at a memorial to Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a native of Poland whose engineering feats were instrumental as American colonists won their freedom from Britain.
Members of Chicago's Polish-American community lined Solidarity Drive in the Museum campus, to witness the ceremony.
Kaczynski, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Mayor Daley took turns placing wreaths at the statue and then posed together for photos.
As they did so, gay rights activists gathered in Daley Plaza and protested the meeting.
Gay Liberation Network coordinator Bob Schwartz said Daley and Blagojevich should have turned their backs on Kaczynski, because of Kaczynski's opposition to gay rights activists in Poland, particularly when he was Mayor of Warsaw.
"Kaczynski denied gays the right to assemble and march in Warsaw," Schwartz said, saying it was a violation of fundamental rights recognized by the European Community.
The activists said Daley and the governor should have had nothing to do with Kaczynski, whom gay rights activist Andy Thayer called a "vile and disgusting man."
The wreath-laying ceremony ended a whirlwind visit to Chicago, which is reputedly home to the largest concentration of ethnic Poles outside of Warsaw.
Kaczynski was honored Friday night at a dinner hosted by the Polish American Congress. Before coming to Chicago, he met in Washington with President Bush.
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Well, a guy that allows another man to shove his penis up his anus then puts the feces covered penis in his mouth should be an expert on what is "vile and disgusting".
I like Poland more and more everyday.....I think we need to take a vacation there....anyone else ever been there?
Sounds like your man's making all the right enemies. Good for him!
I would love to be known as a vile and disgusting man to "Gay" activists. It's hard to find a better compliment.
I am there quite often.
The poofters don't like the Polish president for some reason.
Gay activists protest all that is good.
Poland rocks. It's a great place for a vacation, and shopping. We got lost, and some locals went about three hours out of their way to lead us to our destination, then back again to where we were staying.
They wouldn't even take gas money for their evening shepherding the Texans, but did let us buy them a drink afterwards.
Krakow's CK Browar's has great beer, and food at a great price. The shopping in the cloth market is a one stop tourist's dream. The Wawel Castle is amazing, and it's all made even better by Polish hospitality.
Most young people there speak English, so practice your tourist Polish.
Thank God for a real man as a leader.
Lech Kaczynski (R), President of Poland, shakes hands with wreath bearers during a wreath laying ceremony at a statue of a Polish hero from the American Revolution,Thaddeus Kosciuszko, in Chicago February 11, 2006.
President of Poland Lech Kaczynski (L) shakes hands with members of the Kosciuszko foundation after a wreath laying ceremony at a statue of the Polish hero who served in the American Revolution, in Chicago February 11, 2006. REUTERS/Frank Polich
Where are the gay activists? :-)
Been there twice. It's a lovely country, especially in the south. Krakow's old town is a renissance delight. Combines well with Prague, Budapest and Vienna.
Corned beef and cabbage all over my keyboard!! LMAO
Pole smokers?
Turned around and showed their backs?
Are those homosexuals kidding? Is this some form of joke? Did they bend over too?
Are they THAT stupid?
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