Bradley Manning should win the Nobel Peace Prize

[damnedifIknow]

"As a peace prize winner myself, I am nominating Manning for this honor for his work to help end the Iraq War and other conflicts."

"Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the active creation of something better. Alfred Nobel recognized this when he created alongside those for chemistry, literature, medicine and physics, an annual prize for outstanding contributions in peace. Nobel's foresight is a reminder to us all that peace must be created, maintained, and advanced, and it is indeed possible for one individual to have an extraordinary impact. For this year's prize, I have chosen to nominate US Army Pfc Bradley Manning, for I can think of no one more deserving. His incredible disclosure of secret documents to Wikileaks helped end the Iraq War, and may have helped prevent further conflicts elsewhere."

More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/30/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize-candidate

[The Second Stone]

1. Making a martyr out of him will only increase his actual prison time

they should wait until he is either denied or given parole.

[damnedifIknow]

2. Yeah but what if he wins?

Holy tater soup!

[Tx4obama]

3. 2013 Peace Prize will be announced October 11. A total of 259 people and groups were nominated

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"The Nobel Peace Prize is not a popularity contest and a large number of signatures will neither help nor hinder his (Manning's) candidacy," Asle Toje, the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Research Director said.

"It will be reviewed on its merit, based on the principles laid out in the will of Alfred Nobel. It's not unprecedented that we receive a large volume of supporting material for a candidate ... but these do not influence the committee."

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The 2013 Peace Prize will be announced on October 11. A total of 259 people and groups were nominated by the February deadline, including Manning, Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Myanmar President Thein Sein.

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http://news.yahoo.com/u-rights-group-urges-nobel-peace-prize-wikileaks-143943786.html

p.s. Just because 'one' person out of 1000s says they sent in Manning's name - it doesn't mean much at all.

[burnodo]

4. Barack Obama can win a Nobel Peace Prize...

then ANYBODY could win

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Manning is way more deserving than the 2009 winner. n/t

[struggle4progress]

7. The 2009 winner managed to recapture the top political office in the US

without violence, by superior organizing effort, after the effective coup of 2000 transferred power to a gang of extremists who were bent on engineering a general conflagration in the Middle East to justify the establishment of a gigantic military complex there, in hopes of controlling the world's oil supplies

[PowerToThePeople]

10. they gave it to him because of "hope"

reality has not lived up to that hope.

[dionysus]

13. huffing glue is bad. nt

[PowerToThePeople]

15. stop doing it then. n/t

[alan_phillips]

6. I'm not sure he helped end the war

since it ended on the predetermined timeline. I was serving when all this went down, and the reaction to what came out actually made our jobs harder. It wasn't right what the US govt was doing, on the same token, there is a right way and a wrong way for info like this to come out, and I do not agree with how it went down.

[railsback]

8. I don't think you give out Nobel Peace prizes for being emotionally unstable. nt

[damnedifIknow]

9. Think about it

Who is truly emotionally unstable? I believe you're barking up the wrong tree.

[railsback]

12. You mean I should be barking up the heroic martyrdom tree?

Manning's defense at his trial was that he was emotionally unstable. Doesn't exactly fit the meme that he sacrificed himself for his country.

[damnedifIknow]

14. Well myself

I take a look around and I come to the conclusion Manning ain't the troubled one. We have on our hands a society in dire need.

[railsback]

16. Like people who equate emotional distress

with Nobel Peace prizes?

[dionysus]

11. LOL