[Vision2020] Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Paul Rumelhart]

I looked for this story on CNN's site, but couldn't find it.


Here is the URL: 
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nobel-peace-prize-94158.html


  Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize


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.
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"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.

Because of Svallfors's professorship at Umeå, he is one of the people 
who can submit a nomination to the Nobel organization. However, 
nominations for 2013 were required to be postmarked by Feb. 1.

It was unclear if the committee would consider Snowden's nomination for 
2013 anyway. The Nobel Peace Prize website says the committee may 
sometimes add nominations to the list accrued by Feb. 1, but once names 
are whittled down into a shortlist, the nomination process is closed. 
Nominations after the deadline are usually considered the following year.

The committee received a record 259 nominations this year, it said. 
Prizes are announced in October.

On Monday, WikiLeaks noted that Snowden joins WikiLeaks founder Julian 
Assange and leaker Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in having been nominated 
for Nobels, but the organization in a series of tweets decried the 
committee as a "corrupt" tool of foreign policy.



     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



     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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