Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize 343
SmartAboutThings writes "Edward Snowden has a chance of getting the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, as two Norwegian members of the Parliament have nominated him — Baard Vegard Solhjell (a former environment minister) and Snorre Valen. So, the fact that members of the Norwegian Parliament have proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize could improve his chance of winning. After all, if Obama got this prize, why wouldn't Snowden get it?"
Re:As an environmentalist and (former) Obama fan. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Another way of looking at it: (Score:4, Informative)
I mean let's just have a look at the winners:
A christian woman (mother Teresa) who tortured sick people by not giving them access to treatment and pain killers. (I bet if I left her out I would get +5, but fuck it)
A bunch of US presidents.
Henry Kissinger, who was involved in several wars.
Probably the most similar to Snowden was the German man who alerted the rest of the world to the German re-armament.
While he did get the prize it caused 2 committee members to resign because they didn't want to give the prize to a "criminal". His crime being of course treason for alerting the rest of the world to the re-armament.
And lastly Ghandi, who made peaceful protests by not eating. Oh wait, never mind. The person who most comes to mind when you think peace never actually got a nobel peace prize.
Re:Ah... the Nobel Peace Prize (Score:5, Informative)
Some of those prizes were to people or organizations who really deserved it: Jane Addams (no relation to Gomez or Morticia, you silly people), The International Red Cross (a couple of times), American Friends Service Committee (for humanitarian relief efforts during and after WWII), Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King, Amnesty International, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela / F.W. de Klerk, Doctors Without Borders, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf all did a great deal in the service of peace and humanity, and many took great risks to do so.
That kind of litany makes awards to people like Henry Kissinger even more of a travesty.
Re:As an environmentalist and (former) Obama fan. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Secret nominations? (Score:4, Informative)
Officially it seems you're right, so either it's a rumor or someone did let it slip.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nomi... [nobelprize.org]
> What about the rumours circling around the world about certain people being nominated for the Nobel Prize this year?
> Well, either it's just a rumour, or someone among the invited nominators has leaked information. Since the nominations are kept secret for 50 years, you'll have to wait until then to find out.
Re:Come on people... (Score:4, Informative)
But at least he made it to "man of the year" of Time magazine.
Re:As an environmentalist and (former) Obama fan. (Score:5, Informative)
Gandhi did not receive a Nobel.
Re:As an environmentalist and (former) Obama fan. (Score:5, Informative)
I thought Obama got his for being "not George W. Bush".
Re:Great news! (Score:5, Informative)
It's the peace prize, not the anti pedophile prize. PJPII did a lot to help topple the iron curtain, and he was the first pope to really reach out to other religions, including Jews, Muslims and Buddhists. He was the first pope to visit an Eastern Orthodox country since the split a thousand years ago.
Re:Are you sure Snowden is also not making things (Score:5, Informative)
There aren't many "Snowden's claims". The weird leaks are coming from security researchers pouring over all the power point presentations Snowden got from the NSA. So unless you think he faked those before passing them off to the media...
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