Bradley Manning: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012
I can anticipate all the objections. Regardless, keeping Bradley Manning’s name in the press increases the chances that some justice, somewhere might be served.
From Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Margrét Tryggvadóttir, Members of the Icelandic Parliament:
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.
liberal
January 21st, 2013 at 8:11 pm
That really is an inspired pick. But I'm sure all the war criminals and their supporters wouldn't be so thrilled about it.
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January 21st, 2013 at 9:33 pm
That’s inspired, that’s true. He deserved it really. No Obama or the European Union who do nothing important to stop the nazi-war-mashine of america (the EU is already a part of). Brad is one of the last knights on earth.
Walter Cole
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:17 am
"We have the great honor of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize."
We have the great honor. What a magnificent opening statement for a brave young patriot.
The world would have greater influence for good if he were actually selected for the prize.
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January 22nd, 2013 at 5:35 pm
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January 22nd, 2013 at 8:54 pm
PFC Manning is probably not the person most deserving of the honor, but to humiliate the US police state in such a fashion would be a truly remarkable use of a prize that has become in recent years a mere tool for increasingly ridiculous Establishmentarian in-real-life trolling (the EU? Really?).*
*Yes, I realize it always has been, but never so blatant. It's like they're subcontracting the prize committee to The Economist.
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January 24th, 2013 at 3:38 am
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January 24th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Manning is the most… senior PFC in the US Army .. with good reason. Highly intelligent but lacking in judgement; a traitor to his enlistment oath!
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:42 am
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:45 am
Far cry from the Constitutional militia the Founders envisioned for this country.
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:46 am
Of course that was before it changed from a loose confederation of individual states with a weak federal government into the psychotic, warmongering global Empire we have today.
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:47 am
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:48 am
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:48 am
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:50 am
We saw this before both World War I, World War Two II, the Korean War, the list goes on! What has happened almost every time America goes to war with a major power? We cut our military's budget and reduce its size.
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February 22nd, 2013 at 5:58 am
But, in this perilous time, can we risk selecting a Pentagon chief who might have been influenced even by imaginary terrorist groups?
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