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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

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Re: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

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While I'm fond of any form of flipping the NSA-backing US administration the bird, the Nobel Peace prize has not enough reputation to matter in this context. Al Gore got it for raising awareness of climate change. Obama got that for not being Bush. Even if Snowden gets it, it doesn't really matter.

Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin were awarded it, its not clear if they intended to create a peace, but they did not. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded it. Henry Kissinger meanwhile embarked on a major bombing campaign and Le Duc Tho declined the honour.

They've made premature or outright bad calls before.

Re: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

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post #13

While I'm fond of any form of flipping the NSA-backing US administration the bird, the Nobel Peace prize has not enough reputation to matter in this context. Al Gore got it for raising awareness of climate change. Obama got that for not being Bush. Even if Snowden gets it, it doesn't really matter.

> Obama got that for not being Bush That's probably what he's is going to be remembered for. Poor guy.

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Re: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

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Snowden hasn't officially been nominated. From the article: "The five-member [Nobel] panel will not confirm who has been nominated but those who submit nominations sometimes make them public."

You know how the nomination process works right? It won't be officially confirmed until 50 years has passed.

See http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

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