Snowden, who is in hiding in Russia, is one of seven nominations made by members of the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, a move likely to upset Washington which wants to try him on espionage charges.
Snowden was nominated by the Greens in the European Parliament who said he had done an "enormous service" for human rights and European citizens by disclosing secret U.S. Internet and telephone surveillance programs.
"Edward Snowden has risked his freedom to help us protect ours and he deserves to be honored for shedding light on the systematic infringements of civil liberties by U.S. and European secret services," Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, the leaders of the left-leaning Greens, said in a statement.Reuters
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5 comments:
Well, Mandela's a Communist terrorist, so I guess it's fitting.
Seems like a well-deserved nomination, given how successful he was at drawing attention to the US government's abuse of American rights.
Queue the "he's a TRAITOR" response from the usual fetishists of unlimited executive power.
Obama, Arafat and Krugman have all won Nobel's.
I would vote for him. He did a brave and important thing. He exposed Obama for the dangerous tyrant that he really is and how our constitutional rights are being violated daily by the National Security State.
It is my hope that the Congress will follow the principled leadership of Rand Paul and reverse this pernicious spying by Congressional action. It is time to stand up and be counted.
Are you for the Constitution or not?
I also think that there was an unfortunate overreaction by the Bush administration to the events of 911. If our precautions are not going to take into account the very reasonable facts of racial profiling than we should just take the chance just like we do when we walk down the darkened city street. You can't be 1000% safe not matter what you do.
It is time to stop the TSA from fondling children's genitals while they let others walk freely because to stop them would cause an international incident.
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