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 And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to ...Posted on Oct 8, 2010
... Human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year jail sentence for “incitement to subvert state power,” is China’s best-known dissident. China expressed outrage over the Nobel committee’s decision, claiming that Xiaobo’s award will damage relations between China and Nobel-host Norway. —JCL
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By Carla, October 11, 2010 at 3:55 am Link to this comment
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I am so thrilled, it is so great that Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The chinese Government must be outrageously furious about the award. I hope Liu Xiaobo is soon to be discharged from prison.
Report thisBy grumpynyker, October 9, 2010 at 4:29 am Link to this comment
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And the Nobel Prize STILL WON’T GO TO THE FOLLOWING:
Mordechai Vannunu
Winnie (should’ve been first President) Mandela
Father Jean Bertrand Aristide
or any indvidiual/organization honestly interested in
Report thispeace.
By Inherit The Wind, October 8, 2010 at 6:56 pm Link to this comment
The Chinese government is going ballistic over this! They continue to threaten the Norwegian government, which does not control the Nobel Committee.
Maybe this time the Nobel Committee got it right, for the right reasons? Yuh think?
Report thisBy morristhewise, October 8, 2010 at 2:56 pm Link to this comment
Labor organizations in the US are the ones that are giving Mr. Liu so much
Report thisattention. They would like to see him break the back of the Chinese government
and have a transit worker in Beijing earn as much as one in NYC. A flotilla of
American labor leaders should set sail for China demanding AFL-CIO membership
for all Chinese workers.
By SoTexGuy, October 8, 2010 at 11:37 am Link to this comment
It’s likely the Nobel Committee awarded Obama the Peace Prize as much for what they hoped was his best potential than for his flowery rhetoric on world peace.. as has been discussed ad-nauseum.
I give them a thumbs-up for their effort to clear the way for our new President on important issues, even to attempt to show him the right direction.. if the Prize was intended as an incentive, obviously their money and political clout was not well-spent.
They (the Nobel peers) must be just as disappointed as the people here that voted for Obama..
Adios!
Report thisBy gerard, October 8, 2010 at 11:30 am Link to this comment
Thank Liu Xiaobo for all our sakes! May the human spirit be lifted forever by such courage and perseverence.
Report thisBy Mayponce, October 8, 2010 at 10:31 am Link to this comment
After Obama’s absurd win last year, what little
legitimacy the Nobel “Peace” prize had was thoroughly
pissed upon.
That said, I wonder if any of the US or Israel’s many political prisoners will ever win the award? My guess is—never.
Report thisBy Hammond Eggs, October 8, 2010 at 9:17 am Link to this comment
You mean that David Petraeus didn’t win it?
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