Posted on 10/08/2021 7:19:35 AM PDT by Paul46360
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
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What? Obama didn’t win it? I thought he was a leading contender???
sarcasm......
Why does this sound like a million dollar participation trophy to me ?
Do these recipients truly advocate free speech, or is is this another Orwellian warping of word?
Maria Ressa
Claim to fame = In a long-running psssing match with the Philippine government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ressa
Dmitry Muratov
Claim to fame = Hasn’t been murdered by Putin...yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Muratov
The Nobel Prize may have saved Sakharov's life. Killing a Nobel Prize winner draws a lot of attention.
That said, he and his associates (both living and dead) are not good guys in any real sense of the word. They support Chechen terrorists (the same folks who massacred the school children in Beslan).
I wonder what “free speech” means to the Nobel committee.
Are they into all the cancel culture business, in which they think “hate speech” should be suppressed?
You are joking Brandon is more popular than Obama!
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