who deserves a noble peace prize

[miketheidiot]

i was thinking about the current controversy from today, and was reading this wapost and had a coupe prime candidate pop into my head, most notably bill/melinda gates, possibly the current PM of palestine.


who else is out there that deserves a good look at for the prize?

 

[MikeMike]

George W. Bush, for lowering the terrorism in the world, for removing a corrupt and war mongering dictator in Iraq, for going after terrorists in Afghanistan.

 

[Crono]

Probably people I've never heard of.

 

[Kanalua]

Ghandi (posthumous)

Creator of Twitter (seriously, think Iran presidential elections, etc)

Reagan, Pope John-Paul II, Gorby (think end of Cold War)

Corazon Aquino (posthumous - Bring rule of law to Philippines)

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
George W. Bush, for lowering the terrorism in the world, for removing a corrupt and war mongering dictator in Iraq, for going after terrorists in Afghanistan.

i actually contemplated him for his africa related stuff

 

[al981]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
George W. Bush, for creating more terrorists and uniting the muslim world against the United States, for being a corrupt and war mongering dictator in the USA, for letting the terrorists in Afghanistan roam free while the majority of American military might secured the oil in iraq.

fixed.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Ghandi (posthumous)

seriously?


he doesn't have one?

 

[a123456]

Greg Mortenson was up for one this year, and I was pretty surprised that he didn't win one.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Ghandi (posthumous)

seriously?


he doesn't have one?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_pr...cles/gandhi/index.html

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Crono
Probably people I've never heard of.

yeah, im thinking this.

Originally posted by: Kanalua


Creator of Twitter (seriously, think Iran presidential elections, etc)

seriously, just think of some of the iranians instead

 

[Freshgeardude]

me, because apparently if I even try to make peace in the world I deserve a noble peace prize and 1.4 million dollars

 

[Crono]

"the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses" - Alfred Nobel

That does not sound like the creator of Twitter. Twitter, at best, is simply a tool.

 

[thegimp03]

Ghandi. Don't put him in now though because that'd put him on the same playing field as Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Obama.

 

[BoberFett]

Everyone who is also Not Bush.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Ghandi (posthumous)

seriously?


he doesn't have one?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_pr...cles/gandhi/index.html

Didn't a bunch of Indians needlessly die because he wanted independence? Isn't India a shithole now because the British left?

 

[Queasy]

Any of the other nominees who did not win this year.

# Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia - imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. -- not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)
# Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years - not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
# Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.

 

[spidey07]

I'm going to have to go with Ghandi.

 

[PottedMeat]

Does Jesus have one? I bet he'd like a Nobel Peace Prize. The committee can just say he didn't come forward to claim it so they can pocket the money.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Ghandi (posthumous)

seriously?


he doesn't have one?

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_pr...cles/gandhi/index.html

Didn't a bunch of Indians needlessly die because he wanted independence? Isn't India a shithole now because the British left?

He advocated peaceful rebellion, nonviolent resistance. He spoke against all his contemporaries who wanted to rebel violently.

I think he swayed a lot of people, but some people you just can't convince. He advocated peace, but he wasn't happy with the status quo of the British occupation and rule of India.

He deserved a Nobel prize, I think.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Creator of Twitter (seriously, think Iran presidential elections, etc)

That's fucking retarded, it was the USERS of Twitter who did the work.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
Does Jesus have one? I bet he'd like a Nobel Peace Prize. The committee can just say he didn't come forward to claim it so they can pocket the money.

I know you're not serious, but Jesus didn't care either for the prestige or money from human authorities.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Kanalua
Creator of Twitter (seriously, think Iran presidential elections, etc)

That's fucking retarded, it was the USERS of Twitter who did the work.

And even they really aren't qualified by that to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Crono
"the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses" - Alfred Nobel

That does not sound like the creator of Twitter. Twitter, at best, is simply a tool.

Actually twitter did do that for the Iran election. Iranians were connected with people all over the world. If you think of fraternity between nations as being between the people of those nations, then yes, twitter did that.

 

[SandEagle]

Kanye West

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Crono
"the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses" - Alfred Nobel

That does not sound like the creator of Twitter. Twitter, at best, is simply a tool.

Actually twitter did do that for the Iran election. Iranians were connected with people all over the world. If you think of fraternity between nations as being between the people of those nations, then yes, twitter did that.

Twitter is not a person, and Twitter did not do any work.