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.
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Lech clearly has no idea what’s going on in the US. His handlers will have to guard and shelter him with extreme care to keep him from noticing the inconsistencies between what he’s been told and the reality on the ground.
Either Lech is ignorant or just plain stupid.
(That's at least a partial explanation for why so many Europeans think Obama is wonderful.)
He better get there before Friday.
I have a feeling he is going to be very surprised when he gets there.
I think he has been given some very bad information. He is not THIS stupid
WTF??? I am in an alternative universe.
Apparently senility has set in. Does he KNOW who these people are.
68 in Poland is the new 78.
Wonder how you say alzheimer in Polish?
Wow... This is REALLY disappointing. How in the world can he support these people when they stand for the very thing he risked his life to end??? Perhaps once he gets here and actually SPEAKS to these people he will realize his mistake. I sure hope so... If not then this will unfortunately end up as the point where Walesa jumped the shark.
I’m guessing that the foreign media (just like ours) aren’t telling the real truth about exactly who is behind this whole OWS spectacle. I’m also guessing that he will be thoroughly disgusted at the filth in the park — definitely NOT at all like what happened in Poland.
Does anyone have a contact with Lech Walesa’s people? Someone needs to inform him of exactly who is behind this...
I sure someone manages to open his eyes before he makes a public appearance and flushes thirty years of hard-won respect down the toilet.
I hate to say it but maybe he was a stooge all those years ago. Some comrades are more equal than others and who's faction was he married too, over their opposition. Sad day when I think one of the principals that helped bring down the Soviet Union was not what we thought.
I still want to know when Gerald Ford said Poland was free in the debates with Carter, was that a Intel Slip and what Intel did he have, i.e did they know then in 76' that the Soviets and their Satellite States were about to collapse....
Doesn't sound like he's at all fuzzy about the goals of this "movement". He's gone to the dark side.
Madness is washing over the earth like a black tide. Nothing should surprise anyone anymore.
Knowing what we know now about the Soviets' long-term strategy at the time (play dead and let the west declare victory), you may be right.
So disappointed to hear this. He was once my hero!
You’re with the communists now, Lech.
Perhaps when he gets there and actually talks to those loons, he may reconsider. We’ll see.
So sad to see a warrior against communism in the 70s and 80s be suckered into the latest Marxist scam called Occupy Wall Street in 2011. He is qualifying himself for the Bozo of the Year Award and doesn’t even know it.
He doesn’t seem to understand is exactly what he fought against. Go figure.
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