Bradley Manning and Julian Assange Both Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Generic Other]

The Nobel Peace Prize nominees for 2011 recognize a number of activists, among them Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Wael Ghonim, Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, and Egyptian Israa Abdel Fattah together with the April 6 Youth Movement.

Thus the Arab Spring, as it has been termed, is well-represented in the Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year, and with good reason: It was a remarkable grassroots revolution that is still changing the North African and Middle East dynamic and, indeed, the world.

Much of this, however, might not have been possible but for the actions of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks.

Manning allegedly leaked diplomatic cables and video (of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack) to WikiLeaks. Manning had access to SIPRNet and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System from his workstation in Iraq. His reason for leaking the documents? Manning wrote to former hacker Adrian Lamo, “I want people to see the truth… regardless of who they are … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

[gristy]

1. This is old news, isn't it? From February?

[slay]

2. No, I think this is new

Reported less than 48 hrs ago: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/145977/bradley-manning-and-julian-assange-both-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/#2

[Bjorn Against]

3. I would love to see both of them get the award jointly

I doubt it will happen because it would piss many powerful people off very badly and I doubt the Nobel committee is brave enough to make such a bold choice, but they certainly are deserving so I will keep my fingers crossed no matter how hopeless it may seem.

[SidDithers]

4. "Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize"...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/landmark-legal-foundation-nominates-rush-limbaugh-for-2007-nobel-peace-prize-54151562.html

Sid

[TheWraith]

5. Bush was nominated too. Anyone can be "nominated," it's not a statement of merit. nt

[SidDithers]

6. Yup. Couldn't agree more...nt

Sid

[struggle4progress]

7. The Nobel committee doesn't release names of nominees, and the class of allowable nominators

is rather small. I suppose anyone can write to the Nobel committee to "nominate" a person and can then claim in a press release that person has been "nominated," but such "nominations" won't be considered by the committee unless the "nominator" actually belongs to the rather small group of nominators allowed by the committee's rules

[sabrina 1]

12. Globally, Julian Assange is one of the most highly regarded

people in the world right now. But he was already highly regarded around the world before anyone in the US ever heard of him. We have a way of not getting along with the rest of the world, and of following the propaganda dished out by the Corporate media here. The world knows a different Assange than the US does. But most other countries do not censor their press and distort it the way we do here. Most free countries, I mean.

He had already been given awards for peace and is still winning them. His work in Kenya earned him the humanitarian award from Amnesty International several years ago.

He would be, beyond a doubt, a perfect candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize since he actually works for peace. But the prize has become a sham, with nominees like Bush and then giving it to Obama who is ordering more war in more countries, and extra-judicial assassinations. In their defense though, they probably thought he was going to end the wars. The world was willing to give us the benefit of the doubt regarding Bush, that he was an aberration. But now they see that the US simply is a war-mongering Empire and there isn't much hope of changing it no matter who is in the WH. I doubt he would win it today.

[TheWraith]

19. Oh? Does that include the countries that have warrants out on him?

Please cut down the spin. You'll get dizzy and fall over.

[sabrina 1]

21. Yes, you are talking A government which is entirely different

than and often removed from its 'people'. And as far as I know, only one government has a warrant out for him, that government being Sweden. I'm glad you brought that up btw. Why is that warrant still active?

Are you aware that STILL no charges have been filed.

Are you aware of WHY no charges have been filed?

Let me explain, they have no CASE!

So then, a reasonable person would ask, especially Democrats who are generally more interested in justice, WHY is he still under house arrest when there is NO case filed, NO charges made after nearly one and a half years, and all he is wanted for is to do something HE ALREADY DID. Answer questions, which as I said, he already did.

Why do you think all of this is happening to a multiple prize-winning, highly respected, editer of an International publication?

Millions of people around the globe have been asking. The question I have is, why are YOU not asking? And why did you say 'governmentS' plural, instead of state the facts. Speaking of spin.

[Arctic Dave]

8. And yet Obama won one. Amazing.

This organization needs to cleanse itself of past debacles.

[xchrom]

9. +1

[Dragonfli]

15. This would be a good start in "the cleansing" /nt

[progressoid]

17. Wouldn't it be sad if both Obama and Manning had the prize.

And one of them had the power to release the other from prison but wouldn't do it.

[Arctic Dave]

18. That would be an incredible story.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Either one is obviously more deserving than the winner in 2009. K&R

[EFerrari]

11. That's really good to hear. n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. K AND R. Because.......

>>>>>“I want people to see the truth… regardless of who they are … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”>>>

[Dragonfli]

14. I thought you had to expand wars, start new wars with drones and sanction war crimes to get one /nt

[Scuba]

16. Peace activists of the highest order. They would get my vote. n/t

[ieoeja]

20. Nothing promotes peace better than sabotoging diplomacy.

On the one hand, we have a cable between diplomats who believe their opposite from another country is an asshole, but are doing their best to work with that invdividual anyway in the name of keeping the peace.

On the other hand, we have the people who show that cable to the world, turning the diplomats of the two countries into enemies.

[Arkansas Granny]

23. But, but, but. I'm sure that it was intended to promote world peace.

[Ikonoklast]

24. I nominated Gavrilo Princip.

After all, Anarchists never hurt anyone, right?

[chill_wind]

22. K & R

It's safe to think it's not an idea that's going to get a lot of love in corp media.