Bradley Manning: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012

I can anticipate all the objections. Regardless, keeping Bradley Manning’s name in the press increases the chances that some justice, somewhere might be served.

From Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Margrét Tryggvadóttir, Members of the Icelandic Parliament:

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.

118 thoughts on “Bradley Manning: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012”

  1. That really is an inspired pick. But I'm sure all the war criminals and their supporters wouldn't be so thrilled about it.

  2. That’s inspired, that’s true. He deserved it really. No Obama or the European Union who do nothing important to stop the nazi-war-mashine of america (the EU is already a part of). Brad is one of the last knights on earth.

  3. "We have the great honor of nominating Private First Class Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize."

    We have the great honor. What a magnificent opening statement for a brave young patriot.

    The world would have greater influence for good if he were actually selected for the prize.

    1. when getting the Nobel is the hardest thing and not easy to ready only. Specials Nobel Peace Prize recipient sometimes its very subjective assessment and tendentious .

  4. incase it has not been noticed

    the Nobel is a lost cause after awarding Borat Obomba & the EU. Time to create anti-imperialist institutions that reward resistance

  5. PFC Manning is probably not the person most deserving of the honor, but to humiliate the US police state in such a fashion would be a truly remarkable use of a prize that has become in recent years a mere tool for increasingly ridiculous Establishmentarian in-real-life trolling (the EU? Really?).*

    *Yes, I realize it always has been, but never so blatant. It's like they're subcontracting the prize committee to The Economist.

  6. He is a zillion times better than the turncoat OBAMA I second his name for the Noble Peace prize

  7. Manning is the most… senior PFC in the US Army .. with good reason. Highly intelligent but lacking in judgement; a traitor to his enlistment oath!

  8. Military bands cost the American taxpayer $1.8 billion? What madness! And that's nothing compared to all the other of the generals' and admirals' expensive toys on the list.

  9. C'mon, we wouldn't want to jeopardize Obama's chances of being an advisor to Lockheed/Martin after he's done in the Oval Office! So many two million dollar speeches to make, so many kickbacks to consider, it's a tough world for ex-prezes.

  10. Cool cut the military! Who needs tanks and aircraft that match or even out-preform all other nation's?! Oh wait… what if other nations attack us instead of little terrorist groups. Maybe we'll need our tanks and planes then won't we?

  11. We saw this before both World War I, World War Two II, the Korean War, the list goes on! What has happened almost every time America goes to war with a major power? We cut our military's budget and reduce its size.

  12. Spend some more time here instead of watching Faux News, Shill O'Reilly, Sean Insanity, et al and perhaps you'll learn something. I don't think anyone here is suggesting eliminating the armed forces completely.

  13. And no, I'm not talking about these phony wars for international banksters and zionists the USA has been duped into fighting for them over the past 150 years, including the inaccurately-named "Civil" War and both World Wars, I mean actual threats and physical invasion of our territory. The War of 1812 was about the last time that happened, I believe.

  14. If this country maintained a small but effective defense force (we would still have nuclear weapons) something along the lines of what Switzerland has and with every military-age male citizen required to have in his possession a military rifle and ammunition, it would be perfectly capable of defending the nation's borders from attack and invasion and ONLY that, not a monstrous Imperial war machine attacking, occupying and bullying the rest of the world like it does at present…

  15. o the extent that communities divert law enforcement resources from violent crimes to illegal drug offenses, the risk of punishment for engaging in violent crime

  16. and probably little money in running a government section whose most important job is taking your call when you get drunk in Riyadh. You don't get a great job at an influence mill with that on your résumé. You do if Ambassador to Saudi Arabia means what doing the "important work" needed under current policies. "We have to protec

  17. e money in running a government section whose most important job is taking your call when you get drunk in Riyadh. You don't get a great job at an influence mill with that on your résumé. You do if Ambassador to Saudi Arabia means what doing the "important work" needed under current policies. "We have to

  18. asd job at an influence mill with that on your résumé. You do if Ambassador to Saudi Arabia means what doing the "important work" needed under current policies. "We have to

  19. whose most important job is taking your call when you get drunk in Riyadh. You don't get a great job at an influence mill with that on your résumé. You do if Ambassador to Saudi Arabia means what doing the "important work

  20. PFC Manning is probably not the person most deserving of the honor, but to humiliate the US police state in such a fashion would be a truly remarkable use of a prize that has become in recent years a mere tool for increasingly ridiculous Establishmentarian in-real-life trolling (the EU? Really? ).* *Yes, I realize it always has been, but never so blatant.

  21. If this country maintained a small but effective defense force (we would still have nuclear weapons) something along the lines of what Switzerland has and with every military-age male citizen required to have in his possession a military rifle and ammunition,

  22. And no, I'm not talking about these phony wars for international banksters and zionists the USA has been duped into fighting for them over the past 150 years, including the inaccurately-named "Civil" War and both World Wars, I mean actual threats and physical invasion of our territory.

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