Solidarnosc! Lech Walesa occupies Wall Street.

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 adds:

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!

UPDATE: While Lech Walesa has supported Occupy Wall Street, an Andrew Breitbart blog is ranting that the blog intervened on behalf of Walesa and the result is that the Polish hero has changed his mind and decided not to attend OWS. Dig this bit of self-aggrandizing, yet totally without any proof, statement from Breitbart’s Big Government:

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.

Got that? No quotes from anyone at the Lech Walesa Institute Foundation, let alone the man himself. That hasn’t stopped rightbloggers from jumping on the story and even sending commenters this way. Even Ann Althouse has bitten the bait. Knowing Breitbart’s loose history with facts and his propensity for fudging reality to fit his ideology, I’ll wait for reputable sources to report the facts. So far, the Foundation has nothing on its website regarding this bit of ‘news’. I fired off an email to the Foundation. I’ll let you know their response.

Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain.