Bradley Manning Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
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It’ll be fascinating to see how this plays out because it’s such an unusual choice. Normally you have to commit tens of thousands of armed troops to Afghanistan before you go home with one of these babies. From the blog of Birgitta Jónsdóttir:
[On] February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world.
Our letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:
We have the great honor of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. Manning is a soldier in the United States army who stands accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The leaked documents pointed to a long history of corruption, war crimes, and imperialism by the United States government in international dealings. These revelations have fueled democratic uprising around the world, including a democratic revolution in Tunisia. According to journalists, his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on our foreign policies, and most recently contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all U.S.troops from the occupation in Iraq.
Bradley Manning has been incarcerated for well over a year by the U.S. government without a trial. He spent over ten months of that time period in solitary confinement, conditions which experts worldwide have criticized as torturous. Juan Mendez, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, has repeatedly requested and been denied a private meeting with Manning to assess his conditions.
The documents made public by WikiLeaks should never have been kept from public scrutiny. The revelations – including video documentation of an incident in which American soldiers gunned down Reuters journalists in Iraq – have helped to fuel a worldwide discussion about America’s overseas engagements, civilian casualties of war, imperialistic manipulations, and rules of engagement. Citizens worldwide owe a great debt to the WikiLeaks whistleblower for shedding light on these issues, and so I urge the Committee to award this prestigious prize to accused whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Sincerely,
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Margrét Tryggvadóttir
Þór Saari
Members of the Icelandic Parliament for The Movement
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/bradley- ... ace-prize/
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yup ... but there hasn't been credibility since kissinger won ...
having said that ... i support the icelandic commission's nominee!
it would be about time that someone who did not commit a war crime wins this once prestigious but now tarnished award. i feel that this would restore some credibility to the nobel peace prize.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Oh wait... nevermind...
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Pfc Bradley Manning should be tried for treason during a time of war under the articles of UCMJ, and if convicted, given the strongest possible punishment- execution by firing squad.
If convicted, he's a coward and a traitor, and deserves death.
If the hippies in Dopenhagen want to give him a prize for it, fine- but hopefully it is posthumous.
i think the world will end up a better place with the exposure of those documents.
free bradey manning.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yes, I do support the US military. Pfc Manning took an oath. He broke it. He broke the law. He should be punished accordingly. How come the rules and laws only apply to those you disagree with? That is tyranny.
And if you want to know what's behind the "cloak of secrecy", just visit your nearest Recruiting Office- I would suggest the Army for you Gimme... not quite as cerebral as the Air Force.
1. i accepted a college scholarship to play division one baseball.
2. my dad, a vietnam vet, said he would disown me if i joined the service. he said he fought so that i would not have to. he disagreed with desert storm and he did not want to see his only son going to fight to protect our oil interests. looking back, he was right.
besides, i have never been one to take orders.
bush took an oath and he lied us into a war. where is his trial? he broke the law and he broke his oath. and thousands of americans and hundreds of thousands of civilians died because of it. cheney exposed a covert cia agent. that is treason as well. seems your standards of treason and tyranny are different than mine.
i pay taxes, and evil shit is done in my name every day. i demand to know what i am funding. that is my right as a citizen. the people doing that shit should be held to account for their crimes.
you are calling for the execution of bradley manning, which is your right, but i am demanding incarceration for those doing things like the haditha massacre, which those guys got out of...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Fair enough, Gimme. I respect your opinions, and appreciate your father's sevice.
One thing about Bush tho- why should he be tried? He did not send troops to Iraq- CONGRESS did.
(Remember the vote?)
The balance of power worked as it should... If the President was overstepping his authority, then Congress should have checked him. We can't go back... We can blame the Intelligence community if we want, but to put Bush on trial for following the Constitution seems illogical to me. Especially when we have a President now who ignores the Constitution whenever it benefits him politically. All while assailing the ways in which he feels 'restricted" by the document. As if after 250 years, we don't need a Constitution, we have Obama...
This is tyranny. And it's worse than Bush.