Update 8/12/13: Delivering 100,000 Nobel Peace Prize petitions, and what about the Nuremberg charter?
Supporters at an early morning vigil at Fort Meade prior to the defense beginning its sentencing arguments.
Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the Nuremberg charter, an international agreement signed 68 years ago, which holds soldiers accountable for war crimes, regardless of whether or not they have been ordered to commit the said crimes by their government. The charter creates an international law that demands soldiers act on and report atrocities they witness:
The war in Iraq was illegal, according to most legal scholars I’ve heard, including Kofi Annan, who, unfortunately, didn’t really come out and say it until after he left United Nations, but he said it. An illegal war, invading a country is a war crime. If Bradley Manning sees atrocities committed in the course of a war crime, it’s not just some choice he made. It’s not just a moral obligation. Under international law, he actually had a legal obligation, and certainly a defense, for doing what he did. (Read more…)
More than 100,000 people signed the petition to award Bradley Manning the Nobel Peace Prize, and today Norman Soloman will meet with the Director of the Nobel Research committee to urge them to consider the heroic selfless actions of 3 time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Bradley Manning:
This afternoon I’ll carry several thousand pages of a petition — filled with the names of more than 100,000 signers, along with individual comments from tens of thousands of them – to an appointment with the Research Director of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The petition urges that Bradley Manning be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Like so many other people, the signers share the belief of Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Corrigan-Maguire who wrote this summer: “I can think of no one more deserving.” (Read more…)
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
AMEN!
He may be short in stature but he is a giant of a man.
He may be short in stature but he is a giant amongst men .
Thank you for your sacrifice, Brad! Stay strong and know millions of people are grateful and proud of you.
Mr. Manning, I salute you. You have displayed honor and courage, when so many stood ready to kill, and plunder. Know in your heart, that we the people love you.
Obrigado por seu sacrifício, amigo! São pessoas como você que mudam o mundo.
May all of us who honor peace, find such bravery ever expanding in our circle
From France : you have my unconditionnally support
It’s a shame that these days, the Nobel Peace Prize goes to War Criminals such as Shimon Perez, Tony Blair and Barak Obama. These three alone have butchered millions and in the case of Shimon Perez, has carried out genocide and ethnic cleansing against the palestinians. Bradley Manning is a hero and an innocent man whose only “crime” was exposing the War Criminals of his government. The War Criminals listed above don’t deserve the award but Bradley Manning does.
Bradley Manning deserves the nobel peace price much more than the drone strikes president Obama!
Thank you for your courage and honour. Vous n’êtes pas seule
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Jailed for being honest…. Which is why you don’t see many politicians in jail
If the nobel prize committee wants to live up to the wishes of its creator, who was According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the prize should go to Bradley Manning.
According to Nobel’s own intentions, the award should go to “the person who had done the most or the best action for fraternity between nations, for the abolition and reduction of the war effort and the maintenance and promotion of peace treaties.”
In the long run only the truth and the certainty that nothing can escape it put some fear in the hearts of those who need to hide information to avoid being seen as what are: the real terrorists.
It appears, more and more in the worlds greatest democracy.
There is no freedom of speech.
What is democratic about taking this mans liberty for speaking the truth?
The country is controlled by traitors . We need to take it back
Why would Bradley Manning, a man of principle, accept a Peace Prize from the same organization that gave a Peace Prize to Barack Obama ?