Comments on: The Nobel “Peace” Prize

By: Doug Payton

Doug Payton — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:53:22 +0000

Wow, don't think I could anything to that at all. Well said, Dale. So many worthy recipients promoting peace today rather than maybe dealing with possible conflicts somewhere down the road.

By: Dale Milne

Dale Milne — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:56:02 +0000

When the “prize” is awarded by the five Norwegian politicians, little is said about other nominees. They “lost” in more ways than one.
The Wall Street Journal reminded me of the Burmese monks who stood up against and were beaten by the military dictatorship, Zimbabwe opposition leaders arrested and beaten while protesting peacefully against their dictator, and Father Nguyen Van Ly, arrested for helping a pro-democracy group. Now there’s a country that knows how to put teeth into the separation of faith and state! Maybe Norway approves of such a tooth and claw approach.
Even Tony Blair was mentioned, along with Ireland’s Bertie Ahern who “set aside decades of hatred to establish joint Catholic-Protestant rule in Northern Ireland.” Didn’t Norway notice?
The Journal mentioned the thousands of Chinese bloggers who risk their freedom and their very lives for reporting on events in China. But China is at the opposite end of Norway’s continent.
Several individuals seeking to bring freedom to North Korea and to aid refugees from that horrorscope. What about President Alvaro Uribe? Does Norway figure that standing up to the left-wing terrorists and militant drug-lords in Colombia is no contribution to regional and world peace?
Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Rafik Harari, and other Lebanese freedom-and-peace activists have been assassinated for their efforts. Their supporters in America and Norway have had their characters assassinated. Peace is dearly bought. What risk is there in standing up for a cooler earth? On the contrary, Algore has gained much political capital even after his ungentlemanly poor sportsmanship drove his country into a civil war of words, chad counts, and resentments.
Alas, if only these men and women who have risked their lives for freedom, for peace, for stability in their own lands, for the end of terrorism, dictatorships, and discrimination had the name recognition and partisan affiliation of ex-Vice-Presidents, they might have been considered. (Please see Wall Street Journal, Oct 13-14, p. A10, for details)

By: I am Potrzebie

I am Potrzebie — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:07:35 +0000

It is really difficult for me to tell the difference between “news reports” and the decisions of peace, science and other e-steamed committees, as distinct from (if they are)stand-up comics.

By: Doug Payton

Doug Payton — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:59:25 +0000

“The United Nations Peace Prize was given to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his efforts in spreading peace through peaceful nuclear power for peaceful purposes only.”

Yeah, point taken.

By: Dale Milne

Dale Milne — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:51:41 +0000

We must begin to wonder about “Peace Prizes” given by a tiny committee of only five people, each of whom is selected by a government which is only partially democratic, and who bear heavy on the socialistic (rather than, for example, the scientific) side.

But perhaps we should bow to the committee’s decisions. After all, think of what might happen were another nation or coalition of nations to propose an alternative to Norwegian socialism as the Guiding Principle of Peace.

By: Doug Payton

Doug Payton — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:12:50 +0000

Yes, especially when my own children will be hitting upper academia in a couple years.

By: The Real Sporer

The Real Sporer — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:12:38 +0000

The liberals are being allowed to redefine reality.

Think about the significant increase in their control of media and academia and how nonsense like this allow them to give their alternative reality some credibility, mostly to children and college students.

Scary, huh?