Stefan Svallfors, a Swedish professor on the Nobel Committee, has nominated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for a Nobel Peace Prize. Svallfors says Snowden deserves it due to his “heroic effort,” and notes that it would help recover the prize’s “disrepute” following the “hasty and ill-conceived” decision to award it to Barack Obama.
An excerpt from Svallfors’s letter:
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.
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.
Via POLITICO, here’s WikiLeaks on the nomination:
Now Manning, Assange and Snowden have all been formally nominated for the Nobel.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
The Nobel Peace prize however, is corrupt. Overseen by Norwegian and Swedish establishments, it has become an instrument of foreign policy.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
With Norway in NATO and Sweden vying with Israel for closest ally slot, winners are people like Barak Obama.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
That's why former winners have denounced the institution as corrupted and it is being sued for corrupting its constitution.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 15, 2013
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