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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
- sleepyhead 13y agoWho cares? There is a lot of people who can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fidel Castro has even been nominated.
- arcadeparade 13y agoDeservedly so.
- unimpressive 13y agoWould you like to elaborate? "Castro, on the other hand, was convinced that an invasion of Cuba was soon at hand, and on October 26, he sent a telegram to Khrushchev that appeared to call for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA." - Wikipedia, on the Cuban Missile Crisis
- jfb 13y agoIn the sense that, if they can give it to Henry Kissinger, the prize is therefore meaningless, and they might as well give it to Mugabe, or Castro, or Ríos Montt, or Reagan.
- wikiburner 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba
- sigzero 13y agoI think I just threw up in my mouth a little. This is a joke right? Right!?!
- fastfade 13y agomost deserving nominee in decades.
- mixmax 13y agothe irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
- jmspring 13y agoObama was awarded the Peace Prize prematurely. I've yet to see something he's done to deserve it, despite voting for him the first time.
- Archio 13y agoThat may be so, but let's keep in mind that there is no reason to criticize the President for being undeserving of the prize. It's not like he awarded it to himself.
- jmspring 13y agoIt was awarded upon the rhetoric of hope he espoused, but failed to follow up with in action. But your statement is factually correct.
- sciguy77 13y agoPerhaps he was criticizing the Nobel committee, not the president?
- vor_ 13y agoI see nothing wrong with criticizing him for being undeserving of the prize, because he is.
- phaus 13y agoIt's not his fault, but a man of integrity would have called them out for trying to give it to him when he hadn't even done anything to deserve it. The Nobel peace prize is pretty much a joke, former recipients include a pedophile and a direct supporter of terrorism. If I were Snowden, I wouldn't want one.
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- teddyh 13y agoI fail to see how what Snowden has done has promoted world peace. The Nobel Peace prize is not (recent awardees notwithstanding) a we-like-you prize. It's supposed to be about world peace, and I just don't see how Snowden has advanced that particular goal. Or am I just dense?
- arcadeparade 13y agoWeakening the global hegemon is certainly a contribution to world peace.
- azakai 13y agoHistorically, weakening hegemony has led to periods of strife, not peace.
- krapp 13y agoObama didn't do anything to earn it either, other than not being George W. Bush.
- burntsushi 13y agoAnyone who gets in the way of government abuses is promoting peace in my opinion. In Snowden's case, he's released information about programs that are specifically abusing the privacy of the world's population. One hopes that such a release serves as an impetus to curb or prevent it in the future. I think that at least fits my criteria.
- scottcowley 13y agoCan you imagine if Edward Snowden was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just a couple of years after Barack Obama? The contrast would truly blow my mind. Neither are deserving, IMO.
- andrewskw 13y agoAwesome, him getting a Peace Prize for going against the president who also happened to get the peace prize. Oh the irony.
- pachydermic 13y agoAnyone could be nominated for the prize. It just means some guy wrote a letter to the committee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Nomination If I'm reading that correctly, any recognized professor could write a letter nominating anybody.
- CurtMonash 13y agoIs there any distinction more meaningless than "nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize"? Nominating a person for the Nobel Peace Prize is like introducing a bill in Congress -- all it takes is one person out of several hundred to think it's worth doing for some reason, and boom! It officially happened.
- moocowduckquack 13y ago"Moreover, despite the national and international outcry that has resulted from the PRISM leak, it is too soon to tell what the real consequences of Snowden's actions will be. This is the same logic that governs the claim that Obama's award was prematurely given. " No it isn't. Snowden is being nominated for actions rather than just for potential actions. Consequences can take decades.