You can’t get much better than that.
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.”
UPDATE: The Hill responds:
Great news for the real America. One of history’s great leaders for jobs, workers and freedom is now supporting the Occupy Wall Street protest. Lech Walesa has now weighed in, big time, for the good guys. Meanwhile, one of the most powerful and noble forces in American and global affairs, former Vice President Al Gore, has given the movement a major public blast of support.
The Tea Party movement, which is losing support throughout the nation, is baffled and confused by the real Tea Party movement that represents the great American tradition and the great American heartland: Occupy Wall Street.
Amy Kremer, the chairwoman of Tea Party Express, is actually doing interviews endorsing bank and Wall Street abuses! The banks are doing nothing wrong, she says!! The problem is not Wall Street, she claims! It is those trying to reform banks and Wall Street, she asserts, who are the problem!