There had been a rumor that the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner — the man who perhaps played the single most important role in defeating communism in Poland — would be attending the Occupy Wall Street protest to stand with the protesters. Apparently he had gotten the watered-down, European media-biased version of the story and was unaware of the movement’s Marxist sympathies.

Turns out he’s still not a fan of Marxism. Go figure. So he’ll be skipping, thank you very much.

We suspected that the European news media had filtered out accurate information about the genesis of Occupy Wall Street (OWS).

When Walesa’s comments hit the AP wire last week, my team immediately reached out to our Polish contacts. We made the point that the political themes of Occupy Wall Street may have started out with some of the principles that we share, but OWS themes were rapidly being morphed into anti-freedom and anti-liberty messages. At the core is the want for a big, powerful central government to dominate the lives of individual citizens.

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.

I couldn’t be happier. Walesa is a personal hero of mine, having risked his own neck standing up for human freedom and against the Soviet machine. He was one of those — including Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II — most responsible for the collapse of the Evil Empire. I’m glad he made the right decision and saw these people for what they really are.