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Edward snowden has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
saying that Edward Snowden has quote contributed to a more stable and
peaceful world
order by exposing US surveillance processes and practices
and forcing a new debate over security and privacy
to officials from Norway have nominated
the former intelligence contractor Edward snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize
if he were to win the award he
would join at Martin Luther King Nelson Mandela
mother teresa and of course president Obama himself
who shortly after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
sent a whole bunch more troops to Afghanistan
presumably to have to I guess out of necessity or out a policy right
direction from above
kill many people um question 1
is how much does the Nobel Peace Prize really signified today
in 2014 about your efforts to promote peace
and number two does Edward snowden have any chance at all
love actually winning this I yeah
those are some good questions makes me wonder this is another one of those
awards that we just shouldn't care about
I i think if with the Nobel Peace Prize is good for anything it's it's probably
good for getting you
more lucrative speaking gigs right it probably is and
it's really incredible to me that we could have Edward snowden I I don't
think he's actually gonna when i think is no shot at actually winning this but
let's
imagine for a second that he did if Edward Snowden was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize
he would be simultaneously a recipient
ove the arguably most important piece related
recognition in the world and
wanted for arrest by the United States which is interesting but not unheard
have actually did a little research lucio both from China
is a Chinese literary critic writer professor human rights activist who was
calling for political reforms
at the end and the end of communist rule in
China he's currently incarcerated as a political prisoner
and during his fourth prison term he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
for his long and non-violent struggle for human rights in China
also only son suki is
a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for
Democracy
and in the 1990 general election the NLD that party won 59 percent of the
national vote
eighty-one percent in the seat in parliament however she had already been
detained
and she had been detained under the auspices
love 'em a house arrest specifically before the elections
she remained under house arrest in Burma
and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
so it's actually not unheard of this incredible and just very open
I discrepancy between simultaneously
up with the case of President Obama being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize
and shortly thereafter
scaling up a war albeit temporarily with specific aims
and on the other hand with the Burmese in Chinese examples being
under arrest for your activism and at the same time
winning the Nobel Peace Prize for those same actions right it is not uncommon
just look at how many peaceful protesters end up in handcuffs on any
given day
in this country it's incredible