Bradley Manning nomiated for nobel peace price.

[RomanNose]

February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world.

Our letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:

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.

Sincerely,
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Margrét Tryggvadóttir
Þór Saari

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29077
Good move to be honest. I feel that you should be allowed to blow the whistle when it is in the public interest and this should be enshrined in law. Bradley Manning has really shown just how corrupt many countries have been in the last two decades and he will have a long lasting legacy. The idea that citizens should just allow the government to sit back and commit war crimes is just horrible. It's simply not acceptable to cover up a crime under the cloak of military confidentiality.

Edit: Someone please correct the title? Thanks.

 

[Ahleckz]

A lot more worthy than Obama winning it. That was a total joke.

 

[cheets64]

Read as Bernard Manning for a second, was like no wai

 

[V4NT0M]

the parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament

ok

 

[shifty_uk]

Read as Bernard Manning for a second, was like no wai

Just heard Chubby Browns voice in my head going 'not ******* Manning!'

 

[LordSplodge]

Good, hopefully it will highlight Americas cruel torturous treatment of him. Still no trial. ****ing America is starting to **** me off.

 

[vicisthebest]

Read as Bernard Manning for a second, was like no wai

I read it as Bradley Branning - that ginger from Eastenders.

 

[StriderX]

More justified than Obama, however saying that the reward is nothing now.

Just a pointless trinket.

 

[scrlk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movement_(Iceland)

Right.

 

[StriderX]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movement_(Iceland)

Right.

Oi Democracy at work here, commie.

 

[Cosimo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movement_(Iceland)

Right.

I nominate them for the Darwin Awards. We'll see which nomination gets it.

 

[Marmot]

Quite right too.

 

[TheCenturion]

How much does it cost then?

 

[Tefal]

February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize.

so three people then?


Come ocuk lets nominate our own candidate i reckon we can get at least 5 people

 

[Malevolence]

Nobel Peace Prize? The shady little **** should be tried, convicted and left to rot in the deepest, darkest hole they can find.

 

[RomanNose]

so three people then?


Come ocuk lets nominate our own candidate i reckon we can get at least 5 people

We would first need to get a seat in parliament .
We might be able to get Stoke if we try.

 

[Beans on toast Dave]

Read as Bernard Manning for a second, was like no wai

+1

 

[RomanNose]

Nobel Peace Prize? The shady little **** should be tried, convicted and left to rot in the deepest, darkest hole they can find.

Why?
He exposed various war crimes, not everyone who suffers from war are enemies. The leaks are one of the reasons why the US is leaving Iraq as the Iraq government were not happy with what they showed.
Just type into google collateral murder, you might need a few tissues.

 

[RDM]

I quite like the spin on the original article "the entire Movement parliamentary group" like it is a large number of MPs rather than just three people.

 

[LordSplodge]

Nobel Peace Prize? The shady little **** should be tried, convicted and left to rot in the deepest, darkest hole they can find.

Lolwut. He's done a great service to us, the people, who Governments are supposed to serve.

Regardless of that he deserves a fair trial and not to be detained without charge or kept in cruel and unusual circumstances.

People like you are part of the problem and thus deserve to "rot in the deepest, darkest hole they can find"