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Nobel Peace Prize Recipient & going to Oslo with petition signed by 100,000+ to nominate Manning
Last edited Sat Aug 3, 2013, 07:48 PM - Edit history (1)
Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize
Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 10:15 AM
If the Nobel committee had any guts, it would honor America's leakers and deliver a smackdown to the security state
By Andrew O'Hehir
Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace PrizeBradley Manning (Credit: AP/Patrick Semansky)
In an op-ed for the Guardian earlier this summer, Máiread Corrigan Maguire, an Irish activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and has devoted her life to working for peace in Northern Ireland and around the world, explained why she is nominating Bradley Manning for this year’s prize. American activist and journalist Norman Solomon followed up on this in a USA Today article this week, just after Manning’s conviction on espionage charges. Solomon announced that he will go to Oslo with a petition signed by more than 100,000 people urging the Nobel committee to award Manning the peace prize.
I think it’s a great idea, and if the Nobel committee weren’t so cautious and lily-livered – and were actually interested in furthering the cause of peace – it might actually happen. Since the real goal here is a worldwide public education campaign or an act of resistance, it might be even better if we folded in Swedish academic Stefan Svallfors’ nomination of Manning’s fellow leaker Edward Snowden, who was just granted temporary asylum in Russia. The Nobel committee could undo years of boring and/or insulting choices, just like that. Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.
Can you even imagine how outraged, how red-faced and apoplectic, John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein and the talking heads on the Sunday news shows would be? It would partly make up for the profound shame of having given the prize to Henry Kissinger, one of the 20th century’s great war criminals, in 1973. And then there was what Svallfors calls the “hasty and ill-considered decision” to award it to Barack Obama in 2009. That seemed mysterious at the time – his great accomplishment was that he was a brand new American president who wasn’t George W. Bush – and it looks considerably worse now.
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How will historians of the future, if there is a future, judge this period, or the importance of the Manning and Snowden leaks? We can’t be sure, but that’s because history is written by the winners, and we don’t know who the winners will be right now. What I do know is that this is a key moment in American history, a moment of rupture and revelation. It’s a “whose side are you on?” moment, when the methods and goals of the governing elite and its media boosters – whatever political labels they may apply to themselves – are shown to be very different from their surface ideology, and to have little or nothing to do with “democracy.” It’s a moment when the convenient fiction that underlies all of American politics, the idea that the government represents the people, is exposed as a lie.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/give_manning_and_snowden_the_nobel_peace_prize/
Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 10:15 AM
If the Nobel committee had any guts, it would honor America's leakers and deliver a smackdown to the security state
By Andrew O'Hehir
Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace PrizeBradley Manning (Credit: AP/Patrick Semansky)
In an op-ed for the Guardian earlier this summer, Máiread Corrigan Maguire, an Irish activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and has devoted her life to working for peace in Northern Ireland and around the world, explained why she is nominating Bradley Manning for this year’s prize. American activist and journalist Norman Solomon followed up on this in a USA Today article this week, just after Manning’s conviction on espionage charges. Solomon announced that he will go to Oslo with a petition signed by more than 100,000 people urging the Nobel committee to award Manning the peace prize.
I think it’s a great idea, and if the Nobel committee weren’t so cautious and lily-livered – and were actually interested in furthering the cause of peace – it might actually happen. Since the real goal here is a worldwide public education campaign or an act of resistance, it might be even better if we folded in Swedish academic Stefan Svallfors’ nomination of Manning’s fellow leaker Edward Snowden, who was just granted temporary asylum in Russia. The Nobel committee could undo years of boring and/or insulting choices, just like that. Give the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.
Can you even imagine how outraged, how red-faced and apoplectic, John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Dianne Feinstein and the talking heads on the Sunday news shows would be? It would partly make up for the profound shame of having given the prize to Henry Kissinger, one of the 20th century’s great war criminals, in 1973. And then there was what Svallfors calls the “hasty and ill-considered decision” to award it to Barack Obama in 2009. That seemed mysterious at the time – his great accomplishment was that he was a brand new American president who wasn’t George W. Bush – and it looks considerably worse now.
...
How will historians of the future, if there is a future, judge this period, or the importance of the Manning and Snowden leaks? We can’t be sure, but that’s because history is written by the winners, and we don’t know who the winners will be right now. What I do know is that this is a key moment in American history, a moment of rupture and revelation. It’s a “whose side are you on?” moment, when the methods and goals of the governing elite and its media boosters – whatever political labels they may apply to themselves – are shown to be very different from their surface ideology, and to have little or nothing to do with “democracy.” It’s a moment when the convenient fiction that underlies all of American politics, the idea that the government represents the people, is exposed as a lie.
...
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/give_manning_and_snowden_the_nobel_peace_prize/
If you haven't signed yet and want to, here's the petition http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7612
It's up to 101,092 signatures now
Bradley Manning's Nobel Peace Prize
Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he should receive it.
No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than Bradley Manning. And right now, remaining in prison and facing relentless prosecution by the U.S. government, no one is more in need of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Alfred Nobel's will left funding for a prize to be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
The intent of the prize was to fund this work. As a result of enormous legal expenses, Bradley Manning is in need of that funding.
Please sign this petition to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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[center]''Former Peace Prize Winner Holds New Peace Prize Winner Hostage''[/center]
Oslo, Norway - The co-Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bradley Manning could not attend the ceremony here in Oslo bestowing the honor upon him and co-recipient Edward Snowden today, because he was being held in solitary confinement in a federal prison by the former Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barack Obama, for exposing atrocities he had hoped to keep secret.
Mr. Snowden, meanwhile will attend the ceremonies with a close contingent of Russian bodyguards, being personally provided by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is still relishing in the new role as the protector of the haven for those seeking freedom from repression and torture in the West.
Requests by the Obama Administration officials to postpone this years Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies to ''a more appropriate time'' have been summarily denied. And ridiculed as it should be.
Oslo, Norway - The co-Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bradley Manning could not attend the ceremony here in Oslo bestowing the honor upon him and co-recipient Edward Snowden today, because he was being held in solitary confinement in a federal prison by the former Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barack Obama, for exposing atrocities he had hoped to keep secret.
Mr. Snowden, meanwhile will attend the ceremonies with a close contingent of Russian bodyguards, being personally provided by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is still relishing in the new role as the protector of the haven for those seeking freedom from repression and torture in the West.
Requests by the Obama Administration officials to postpone this years Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies to ''a more appropriate time'' have been summarily denied. And ridiculed as it should be.
- K&R
[center]''Land of the Free''
''Freedom is slavery''
''Home of the Brave''
''Ignorance is strength''
''Rockets' red glare, bombs burst in air''
''War Is Peace''
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