WikiLeaks Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Member of Icelandic Parliament
- Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:44pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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After taking a long hard look at some of its nominees and recipients, the famed Nobel Peace Prize has become, in certain circles, the brunt of many a joke.
Now, disgraced WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning could be added to that controversial list. On Saturday, Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta Jónsdóttir posted a nomination letter on her blog on behalf of the three-member parliamentary group “The Movement,” proposing Manning as a candidate for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Peace Prize nominations can be submitted by any member of a national assembly, among others.
IBI reports:
The Icelandic parliamentarian has been a vocal supporter of WikiLeaks since it leaked the “Collateral Murder” video of a 2007 Baghdad strike by U.S. forces that killed at least a dozen unarmed civilians, including two Reuters reporters, which is widely believed to have been acquired and sent to WikiLeaks by Manning himself. In December 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a subpoena request to Twitter for data pertaining to prominent WikiLeaks figures, including Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
Jónsdóttir has also been an advocate for making Iceland a haven of press freedom, and in 2010 spearheaded the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, which combined, according to the New York Times, “whistle-blower laws and rules about Internet providers from the United States; source protection laws from Belgium; freedom of information laws from Estonia and Scotland, among others; and New York State‘s law to counteract ’libel tourism,’ the practice of suing in courts, like Britain’s, where journalists have the hardest time prevailing.”
The full text of the Manning nomination is provided below courtesy of IBI:
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.
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Comments (81)
1moreOutnumbered
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:13amIf Obama can win it for promises (that he hasn’t delivered on) why can’t a traitor win it too. Just goes to show how much of a joke the award is these days.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:11amI heard you can go to yer local Family Dollar store and stock up on all the Nobel Peace Prizes you want! Hell, WalMart will have ‘em in stock next week if you can wait till then!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:00amIf a traitor gets a peace prize after making the life of senior diplomats harder, the next time the traitor won’t be arrested. One day they will just go AWOL.
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:32pmAmazon.com has the Nobel Peace Prize, two for the price of one.
Act soon and they throw in an autographed picture of Alfred Nobel.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:23pmThey should change the name to the Nobel Douche Prize at least then you could figure how they pick the winners……
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:52am.
Report Post »Perfect.
That should kill of the Nobel forever.
After Yassar Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and Barak Obama,
it was just a laughing stock, now it will be a total failure.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:03amRuling out the death penalty for Bradley Manning isn’t so strange when you consider than he openly flaunted his homosexuality in defiance of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Executing him as the traitor, spy, and worthless vermin that he is would be regarded as homophobic.
Some would let him loose, despite the Americans he might have gotten killed.
Referring to Manning’s detention before trial, Ron Paul said, “Should he be locked up and imprisoned?” Manning should be seen as a “political hero” and “true patriot who reveals what’s going on,” Paul said.
Demented as Paul’s views may seem to any real patriot, he isn’t alone:
[Manning's] backers include the Movement for a Democratic Society, a group of former Weather Underground members and radicals that includes Obama associate and terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Advisory Board of the Bradley Manning Support Network includes Robert Meeropol, whose parents, communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were convicted of violating the Espionage Act and executed for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Meeropol says “it is an honor to join a Board that includes Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, as well as Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and filmmaker Michael Moore, among others, but also because I believe it is imperative for as many people as possible to raise their voices in support of Manning.”
Ron Paul is a buffoon.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:31amHarry Hopkins and FDR gave the Bomb and the uranium to the Russians.
Read the Book, From Major Jordan’s Diaries.
FDR is quoted as saying, “Some of my best friends are Communists.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:38amYou’re sure of that MRSALVAGE?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:34amBradley Manning was a military brat. That made it hard for him to put down roots & integrate with the community. People being people with their pecking orders, social hierarchy & bullying, Bradley fared poorly.
It is no surprise that he became gay. He wasn’t born that way.
You can find no DNA or epi-genetic reason for him being gay. After finding none, the gay posse will move on to another argument.
People need to become better.
Report Post »sknight
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:11pmI was not aware that Paul had praised Manning. Interesting that my views of his behavior mirror Paul’s. When you see illegal behavior being covered up, it doesn’t matter if its classified. You are duty bound to report this to someone. Obviously Manning, if he really did release this info, did not feel that anyone would do anything about this abhorrent behavior, so he did what he could to get it released.
I had not heard that any of his releases led to any deaths in the field.
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:34pmThey should have a nice bed for Manning in Gitmo.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:21amIf Manning has one bit of gray matter, he’ll fade into the countryside in west Texas. There are quite a few Marines, Paratroopers, grunts and sailors, Seals, Spec Ops who have lost good friends because of some intelligence leaks. Even if no actual deaths can be attributed to wikileaks, a traitor is a traitor regardless the social outcry boasting his honor and integrity. Manning was well aware of his responsibility when he VOLUNTEERED to enlist in the Army and he chose to forsake that responsibility to subvert the US and its Allies. To many men and women in the US, Manning represents the enemy. He chose his bed, now let him lay in it.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:28amAnd when Ron Paul says he supports our military and then supports a traitor like this… one can only assume that Ron Paul is a hypocrate of the highest order and not qualified to be it’s Commander-in-Chief.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:16amIn the past there have been some very worthy recipients. As examples:
Henry Dunant, founded the International Red Cross.
Albert Schweitzer.
Sadat and Begin deserved their prizes, I believe.
The Dalai Lama.
I can’t argue with Aung San Suu Kyi. Or with Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa, and Martin Luther King.
But that’s about it.
Then there are the clowns:
Dag Hammarskjöld got his for being secretary general of the United Nations as did Kofi Annan (who, in my opinion, is an unindicted thief)
Obama and Gore, it goes without saying. And the arch terrorist Arafat.
But the most deserving of this accolade in my opinion, who was nominated a record five times and never won, was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
If not him, then why anybody.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:23amSpot On Mate!!!!
Report Post »RCScrolls
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:00pmAHH, Iknew OBAMA and HIm had something in common.
Report Post »They both hate the USA and I mean hate.Obama has done more detruuction to this country than ROOOselvelt and Wilson combined.
Im sure after 2012 He move to another nother land where He can be safe, surley Americans wont allow Him to stay here.
waspanglosaxon
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:07amCome on, people. Bradley Manning is a hero in the truest and most American sense of the word. He deserves the Nobel Prize, as does Julian Assange, for exposing the murderous lies of the Geo. W(orst ever!) Bush regime. W. and those traitors in Congress who approved his ‘war without reason’ in Iraq are the ones who should be tried for treason.
Report Post »Tandem2011
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:48amThe people who have an irrational hatred of George W. Bush (one of our greatest wartime presidents) are too blinded by their venom to see facts objectively. They’re deaf to reasoning. (Glenn Beck doesn’t have much respect for Bush either, but at least he‘s tried to give him credit where it’s due SOME of the time.)
Get over it, WASPANGLOSAXON. We’ve got the problem of Obama to deal with now. And Ron Paul isn’t the answer either. He’s to the left of Obama on foreign policy, which is insane considering the threats facing us today.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:02amI think Billy Clinton should get a prize for being the first impeached US president.His award should include all the soldiers who died on the USS Cole.
OMG in 2012
Report Post »Tandem2011
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:44amA Boyscout salute is worth far more than today’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Report Post »Only radical leftists receive the prize — for betraying people.
Walkabout
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:22am“The naming of mainland China residents reportedly ”sparked an online witch-hunt by Chinese nationalist groups, with some advocating violence against those now known to have met with U.S. Embassy staff.” -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks_diplomatic_cables
- Chinese dissidents meet with U.S. diplomats.
Report Post »- Dissidents are harassed jailed or killed.
- Manning pats himself on the back for a job well done.
mrmikejohnson
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:57amThe Nobel Prize has been a liberal propaganda tool for quite some time now. It’s meaningless who wins.
If they really want to be fair about it, the scientists who showed that manmade global warming was untrue should get Nobel Prizes. That’s significant and they showed courage.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:39amUnfortunately this prize has lost all credibility. It used to be worth something, but no longer.
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:50amNobel invented dynomite. I bet he would like to use a stick or 2 on these idiots. Having said that Obama won a Nobel Piece of **** prize so anything is possible.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:04amThe nobel prize is worthless…. Much like it recipients…
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:55amI spent 12 months in iceland several years ago, not the brightest bulbs in the universe.
Pray For Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »He’s a traitor!!!
KILL HIM!!!
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nzkiwi
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:38amJust a little bit over the top, there.
Report Post »magadog
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:37amNot over the top. This POS deserves the award – or medal – rather metal…260 grain .45 to the temporal lobe. Traipsing traitor.
Report Post »Boss J
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:39amI hope he does win it. How will Obama spin being in the same category as Yassir Arafat and this traitor?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:31amYou got it. And while they’re at it — change the name of it to the “I’m Not Bush Prize”
Report Post »barber2
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:25amAm sure Julius and Ethel Rosenberg would be the modern recipients of the Nobel Peace prize if they were still around.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:53amTheir son is still alive. He along with Michael Moore, Code-Pink, Daniel Ellsburg, Oliver Stone AND……….. RON PAUL among other losers support Bradley Manning. Ron Paul says Bradley Manning is a “hero” and “a patriot.”
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:26amJulius and Ethel Rosenberg were traitors.
Their son is a fifth columnist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project#Bearing_of_VENONA_on_particular_cases
Not all Jews are created equal. Some are orthodox & some are liberals. The liberal Jews support the Soviet Union, which liquidates Russian Jews. Proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »ConservativeBrony
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:10amI thought it was obvious that the Nobel Peace prize is only given to anti-americans. You know, because were “so evil”.
Report Post »Anadara
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:01amWell, after Manning is executed, we now know where to send the corpse.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:54pmIs there Anything The Left Touches That Doesn’t Just Turn To Cr@p?
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:04amActually the award has pretty much been crap since its inception. With a few notable exceptions, Nobel‘s Peace Prize is a bigger load of garbage than New York city’s landfill. This is just another in the long history of arseholes patting themselves on the back.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:49pmIceland is a very demented left wing country.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »I hope Iceland’s volcanoes burn them to the crisp they deserve and finally sink them to HeII where they all belong!
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Quiata
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:26pmIceland’s entire population is roughly that of a midwestern American city: 318,000 (that’s thousand), mostly white people, surrounded by cold water in the North Atlantic. Teeny teeny tiny itty bitty little country with massively disproportionate influence (and a totally blown banking system).
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:36pmAfter that Obama got it , it’s not a big surprise if a traitor gets it .
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:50pmI hope he gets it, just to show what a joke it is/
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:30pmThem people up there have been
Report Post »on ice way to long
Whitey4West
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:29pmManning deserves a traitor’s demise, not the nobel peace prize…
Report Post »SteamedinMichigan
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:08pmObama won this in the past. This “prize” is a joke. Case Closed. Next (Real) issue?
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:32pmAre they still giving out this award out – why? Holds zero credibility after Obama. . .
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:29amSteamedinmichigan,….Ditto
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:04pmIf Manning wins this award, this is proof positive that the Nobel Peace Prize is an irrelevant joke. Awarding it to Obama for doing nothing was a complete lie. The prize means nothing.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:34pm$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$……………………q
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:54pmO.M.G! Well, I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. I mean if Obama got it for whatever it was that he did ( what was that again) then I guess Manning is deserving for his role in whatever it was that he did.
But Wow!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:03pmOk, Obama and now this newest traitor get nominated for a peace prize?….I guess this whole process is truly degenerating into a popularity contest for the radical left.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:57pmDon’t forget Al Gore.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:54pmIn keeping with the recent trend in the Nobel prizes,a new category in next year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be for the largest bowel movement created by a human.
Report Post »Joe Biden thought he had a shot at it til he realized it was not for the largest human bowel movement but for the largest one created by a human.
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:49pm.
Report Post »Obama will have to “Pardon” him now…….
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:33amActually… you’re probably right about Obama and a pardon. And if Ron Paul became President (which of course he won’t), he would probably put Manning back on duty and put him in charge of his brand of military intelligence. The Paul-Manning America hating brand.
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