Watermarx enraged as imprisoned dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize

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BEIJING – China has long wanted a Nobel prize. Now that it has one, its leaders are furious. The Nobel committee awarded its peace prize to imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday, lending encouragement to China's dissident community and sending a rebuke to the authoritarian government, which sharply condemned the award.

In naming Liu, the Norwegian-based committee honored his more than two decades of advocacy for human rights and peaceful democratic change — from the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989 to a manifesto for political reform that he co-authored in 2008 and which led to his latest jail term.

President Barack Obama, last year's peace prize winner, called for Liu's immediate release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nobel_peace_prize

see watermarx...if you believed in the death penalty this would not have happened....

 

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BEIJING – China has long wanted a Nobel prize. Now that it has one, its leaders are furious. The Nobel committee awarded its peace prize to imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday, lending encouragement to China's dissident community and sending a rebuke to the authoritarian government, which sharply condemned the award.

In naming Liu, the Norwegian-based committee honored his more than two decades of advocacy for human rights and peaceful democratic change — from the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989 to a manifesto for political reform that he co-authored in 2008 and which led to his latest jail term.

President Barack Obama, last year's peace prize winner, called for Liu's immediate release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nobel_peace_prize

see watermarx...if you believed in the death penalty this would not have happened....

The Nobel committee should be applauded for doing the right thing for once, they should also withdraw the prize from that German fucker Kissinger.

 

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BEIJING – China has long wanted a Nobel prize. Now that it has one, its leaders are furious. The Nobel committee awarded its peace prize to imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday, lending encouragement to China's dissident community and sending a rebuke to the authoritarian government, which sharply condemned the award.

In naming Liu, the Norwegian-based committee honored his more than two decades of advocacy for human rights and peaceful democratic change — from the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989 to a manifesto for political reform that he co-authored in 2008 and which led to his latest jail term.

President Barack Obama, last year's peace prize winner, called for Liu's immediate release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nobel_peace_prize

see watermarx...if you believed in the death penalty this would not have happened....

So are saying that the Nobel committee are unable to award the prize posthumously?

 

[Lowaicue]

So you are saying that the Nobel committee are unable award to posthumously?

The main concern, I think, is that Alfred Nobel's wonderful idea of giving an award to the person who has done most for world peace appears to have been hijacked by this group of well meaning but misguided old men.
Kissinger was certainly not peacable in any way, Obama hadn't been given the chance to prove himself one way or another and Lui, for all the sympathy he has from the rest of the world has actually achieved very little. There are several dissidents with similar qualifications who have not caught the eye of the hate press .... Yet!

 

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The main concern, I think, is that Alfred Nobel's wonderful idea of giving an award to the person who has done most for world peace appears to have been hijacked by this group of well meaning but misguided old men.
Kissinger was certainly not peacable in any way, Obama hadn't been given the chance to prove himself one way or another and Lui, for all the sympathy he has from the rest of the world has actually achieved very little. There are several dissidents with similar qualifications who have not caught the eye of the hate press .... Yet!

I think the main reason was to piss off the Chinese government and to atone for their sins in the past.

 

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The Nobel committee should be applauded for doing the right thing for once, they should also withdraw the prize from that German fucker Kissinger.

sure...right after they withdraw the prize from obama

giving the prize to obama ended any meaning that prize may have ever had

 

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I think the main reason was to piss off the Chinese government and to atone for their sins in the past.

iow....its a meaningless prize

thanks

 

[charver]

iow....its a meaningless prize

thanks

Seems like it.

China's Nobel anger as Liu Xiaobo awarded peace prize

China has angrily condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

The Beijing government summoned the Norwegian ambassador in protest. It called Mr Liu a "criminal", saying the award violated Nobel principles and could damage relations with Norway.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11505164

 

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sure...right after they withdraw the prize from obama

giving the prize to obama ended any meaning that prize may have ever had

That happened when KIssinger was awarded it in 1973, Tom Lehrer gave up satire on hearing the news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_kissinger_profile.shtml

 

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On reflection, looking back over the winners down the years there have been some very good awards as well. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama spring to mind.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

So are saying that the Nobel committee are unable to award the prize posthumously?

Correct, they are not.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

The main concern, I think, is that Alfred Nobel's wonderful idea of giving an award to the person who has done most for world peace appears to have been hijacked by this group of well meaning but misguided old men.

Funny story, Nobel invented the prize after HIS own original idea for peace, dynamite, ended killing more people in new horrific ways.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

If I believed in the death penalty it wouldn't have effected things one way or the other.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Funny story, Nobel invented the prize after HIS own original idea for peace, dynamite, ended killing more people in new horrific ways.

Attempting to make war so horrible that no one was willing to wage it turned out to not work that well.

Nukes probably were the only reason there was peace in the cold war, though. But still, the fact that one rogue agent that doesn't care about its own survival could basically destroy the world does not make me sleep easy at night.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Attempting to make war so horrible that no one was willing to wage it turned out to not work that well.

Nukes probably were the only reason there was peace in the cold war, though. But still, the fact that one rogue agent that doesn't care about its own survival could basically destroy the world does not make me sleep easy at night.

Yeah, catch-22 nukes are. Everything else seems to have failed in the aspect of "making war too horrible to wage" It's like people of the late 19th and early 20th century forgot how some people waged war 1000 years ago. Like the Mongols. Or Vikings. Or Christians.

 

[Lowaicue]

Funny story, Nobel invented the prize after HIS own original idea for peace, dynamite, ended killing more people in new horrific ways.

Apart from the fact, of course, that much of what you rely on every day and many of the 'I-love-you' presents you buy your wife and/or girlfriend would not be available to you unless miners used dynamite (or its modern day equivalent).

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Apart from the fact, of course, that much of what you rely on every day and many of the 'I-love-you' presents you buy your wife and/or girlfriend would not be available to you unless miners used dynamite (or its modern day equivalent).

Yeah, there is that too, but that wasn't what Nobel set out to do with dynamite. Just like peanut butter was meant to be a glue instead of a tasty food.

 

[Lowaicue]

Yeah, there is that too, but that wasn't what Nobel set out to do with dynamite. Just like peanut butter was meant to be a glue instead of a tasty food.

I would not catergorically state that you are wrong since I did not know the man! But... he was in the construction industry and he did live in Scandinavia.

There are several months in the year, even in the southern climes of Norway, Sweden and Finland, where it is, or would have been, almost impossible to dig through the ground for for foundations etc. due to frozen ground. Much of the country is solid rock anyway so it seems logical to me that dynamite (nitroglycerene and, nowadays I think, fullers earth(?) ) and the detonation of it would have been of more use in his own construction industry.

When he made his first bang he may well have considered changing professions to become an arms dealer, but we shall never know!

Had he really considered it as a means to death and destruction I think he would have changed his nationality to American and his religion to Muslim!

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

I would not catergorically state that you are wrong since I did not know the man! But... he was in the construction industry and he did live in Scandinavia.

There are several months in the year, even in the southern climes of Norway, Sweden and Finland, where it is, or would have been, almost impossible to dig through the ground for for foundations etc. due to frozen ground. Much of the country is solid rock anyway so it seems logical to me that dynamite (nitroglycerene and, nowadays I think, fullers earth(?) ) and the detonation of it would have been of more use in his own construction industry.

When he made his first bang he may well have considered changing professions to become an arms dealer, but we shall never know!

Had he really considered it as a means to death and destruction I think he would have changed his nationality to American and his religion to Muslim!

Well if you really want to be technical he wanted a safer way to utilize nitroglycerin, because in it's liquid form it is highly dangerous and unstable. Naturally that has very useful purposes in mining. But he also sought it as a way to "make war too terrible to wage' in the same vein Hiram Maxim did with the invention of the machine gun, who interestingly enough, became a British citizen in order to sell his idea to the Europeans.