Not in a million years will the United States allow Snowden to get the Peace Prize. But his nomination is significant. Many in the West see him as a champion of democracy.
Svallfors is credentialed to submit nominations. Qualified individuals include:members of national assemblies and governments;international courts members;university rectors;social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology professors;peace research organizations;foreign policy institutes;former Nobel recipients;board members of organizations awarded the prize;active Nobel Committee members; andformer Committee advisors.
I have chosen to nominate US Army Pfc Bradley Manning, for I can think of no one more deserving.
His incredible disclosure of secret documents to Wikileaks helped end the Iraq War, and may have helped prevent further conflicts elsewhere.
Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means….
I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and factories. I am thinking of the women who, for a paltry wage, are compelled to work out their lives; of the little children who, in this system, are robbed of their childhood, and in their early, tender years, are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon, and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the machines while they themselves are being starved body and soul….
Your honor, I ask no mercy. I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail.I never more fully comprehended than now the great struggle between the powers of greed on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of freedom.I can see the dawn of a better day of humanity. The people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own.
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
He who labored incessantly for others, at last found rest. He who waged ceaseless strife on behalf of his brothers has entered into the eternal peace.