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Lech Walesa Has An #OccupyWallStreet Reality Check, Declines Beclownment

Posted on | October 22, 2011 | 57 Comments

by Smitty

One surmises he’s closer in spirit to Tea Partiers:

Using biggovernment.com plus other news sources, rapidly we painted an accurate picture of the groups training, leading, and organizing the “movement.” The movement is organized by anarchists, Code Pink, the American Communist movement, jihadists, anti-Israel, socialist, and anti- free enterprise interests. OWS folks are politically to the left of President Barack Obama.
At the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation in Warsaw, they were thankful to receive this information.
Based on our discussion and intervention, President Walesa is not going to get involved with the OWS. He is not comfortable with the “organizations” behind the movement. It was not a difficult discussion.

via RocksEm

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57 Responses to “Lech Walesa Has An #OccupyWallStreet Reality Check, Declines Beclownment”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:36 pm

    I worry more about them not being able to change the lightbulbs.

  2. Bob Belvedere
    October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:39 pm

    Bingo!

  3. ThePaganTemple
    October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:57 pm

    I just now realized he said Polish Tea-Partiers, when I somehow read it as Polish OWS. Oh well. Teach me to jump too quick at the chance to tell a Polish joke.

  4. ThePaganTemple
    October 23rd, 2011 @ 5:04 pm

    I also think sometimes that Karl Marx was at heart an old fuddy-duddy that didn’t like all of that new-fangled capitalist economic opportunity that came with the onset of the Industrial Age and capitalist investment. He wanted to get everybody back to the good old days of Feudalism, minus the royalty and aristocrats. When you get right down to it, communism is nothing much more than Feudalism for the Industrial Age. Just look at the background of some of these guys, for example Engles and Lenin. They all came from wealthy families. Engles family were, I think, industrialists, while Lenin’s father was a wealthy landowner, with serfs.

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