Posted on 09/09/2013 5:43:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By: Tal Kopan July 15, 2013 10:41 AM EDT
A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee would correct Nobel Committee’s mistake in giving the award to President Barack Obama in 2009.
According to a translation of the letter published by the Daily Mail and RT.com, Umeå University professor Stefan Svallfors wrote the committee that Snowden has made the world safer in releasing information about United States surveillance.
“Edward Snowden has - in a heroic effort at great personal cost - revealed the existence and extent of the surveillance, the U.S. government devotes electronic communications worldwide. By putting light on this monitoring program - conducted in contravention of national laws and international agreements - Edward Snowden has helped to make the world a little bit better and safer,” Svallfors wrote.
Referencing the Nuremberg trials of Nazis, Svallfors says following orders is not an excuse for acting against human rights and freedom, and he praised Snowden’s courage in leaking the information.
Svallfors also noted that Obama was a past recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he called a correctable mistake.
“The decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would - in addition to being well justified in itself - also help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute that incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama 2009 award,” Svallfors said.
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He has done more for Peace than previous American recipients of the Peace Prize:
I have more respect for Snowden than for any of the other three. But, that's damning them with faint praise....
The peace prize is a joke but crazy nominations have become a metajoke. Anyone can be nominated. Rush has been nominated several times.
Agreed.
I have no problem with this. Snowden did us all a favor. The current U.S. Government is illegitimate. It has been definitively illegitimate since no later than January 22, 1973.
LOL-
I nominate ...ta da...
Dennis Rodman- what the hell, why not?
he can really ad some style (gangster to your list)
I think you mean, “gangnam” style.
you bad!! LoL
Monday morning laugh fest-
except-...
All these “peace losers” literally get Millions!!
Funny.
I’m sure they know that the LAST Nobel prize winner is trying to arrest the new nominee.
Yep,
no more no less stoopid than giving it to this lame ass Marxist punk./
Can they come up with another winner whose selection will convey the message "we hate George W. Bush"?
Will they give the prize to Hillary to help her chances in 2016?
Of course there are so many other deserving people out there...Cindy Sheehan...Dennis Rodman...Julian Assange..."Chelsea" Manning...
I stand corrected.
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