History, the likes of which are sanitized from our school books and media.
This is in actions, the people we are, the world we support. Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Nobel-Peace-Prize-or-Nobel-by-Ruth-Hull-121003-756.html (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Associate Member, or higher). October 3, 2012 Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel War Prize: Will Assange and Manning Restore the Integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize? By Ruth Hull On October 12, 2012, will the Norwegian Nobel Committee give the Peace Prize to another war criminal or will it have the courage and integrity to give the Prize to Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, two nominees who have suffered severely and could even lose their lives for the cause of peace? Will the Nobel Peace Prize actually stand for peace this year? :::::::: Friday, October 12, 2012, we shall know the answer. Among this year's nominees: Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. The Nobel Peace Prize, initially funded with profits from death, gave a hope that peaceful works would be recognized, but those hopes have too often been dashed as peacemakers have watched the prize be awarded to war criminals, infamous for mass murder and death. On September 27, 2012, Julian Assange (a man who has worked for peace through risking his freedom to inform the public about the realities of war) spoke in support of human rights to the United Nations. In his plea for peace and human rights, he told the story of Bradley Manning, a serviceman who had worked for peace, only to be tortured under the watch and command of 2009 Nobel Peace winner, Barack Obama. In 1867, chemist Alfred Nobel patented his invention of dynamite. Since then, his invention has been used in wars and mass killings. It is claimed that Nobel's intention in inventing this deadly explosive was to do good. Maybe Nobel's dynamite is a little like the Nobel Peace Prize, too often benefitting the biggest merchants of death in the world. The Peace Prize was included in Nobel's will in 1895 and first awarded in 1901 out of his estate. Nobel had reportedly decided to put the initial Nobel Prizes in his will after reading a premature obituary of his death calling him, "the merchant of death" and going on to say that, "he had become rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before." The recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a 5-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. . There have been some honorable winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of them was even related to me. Some of the more honorable winners included Cordell Hull, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. However, the good done by the prize has been somewhat tarnished by war crimes committed by other Nobel Peace Prize nominees. Look at these youtube videos at some of the peaceful actions that took place under 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama's watch and command: Collateral Murder , another show of the President's peaceful nature (inclusive of Obama laughing at his war crimes), the pacifistic sending of missiles to attack another country that never attacked us, and this heart-warming video of Obama's friendly drone program. Then there are the compassionate deaths at the American Concentration Camp at Guantanamo Bay, a facility Obama promised to close but kept open, expanding the privilege of permanent non-trial detention to American citizens. But Obama isn't the only war criminal to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Don't forget the Butcher of Cambodia and Chile, Henry Kissinger. Interestingly, they gave the Peace Prize to Kissinger right after his 9/11/73 terrorist attack on the Country of Chile and his installation of mass murderer/terrorist Augusto Pinochet. Maybe the key to getting a Nobel Peace Prize is to massacre large numbers of unarmed and helpless innocent people. Going back a little further, don't forget Woodrow Wilson who got the United States into World War I (killing 116,516 American servicemen). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. But taking us into war on a false flag after running for re-election on a slogan of, "He kept us out of the war," wasn't his only claim to fame. Don't forget Ludlow, Colorado: where his suppression forces flame-broiled innocent men, women and children for the purpose of breaking a miners' strike. Then there were the Palmer Raids of Wilson's Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, wherein the Wilson Administration terrorized American citizens from coast to coast while violating the Bill of Rights for the purpose of suppressing support for peace. Included in Wilson's anti-peace/anti-American agenda was the infamous Espionage Act of 1917 -- yes the same act that 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama apparently seeks to use to permanently detain, torture and/or execute Julian Assange. In Wilson's defense, he did try to get the United States into the League of Nations, a weak pre-curser of the United Nations. But even before Wilson's Presidency, the Nobel Peace Prize went, in 2006, to Teddy Roosevelt of the imperialistic Spanish American War, which resulted from lies and an earlier false flag operation. (My apologies to my now-deceased grandfather who was with the Rough Riders.) If you want to get a good look at Teddy Roosevelt, read this story about an incident that occurred under his command and watch, earlier in the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Comments on the Moro Massacre by Mark Twain (March 12, 1906) "This incident burst upon the world last Friday in an official cablegram from the commander of our forces in the Philippines to our Government at Washington. The substance of it was as follows: A tribe of Moros, dark-skinned savages, had fortified themselves in the bowl of an extinct crater not many miles from Jolo; and as they were hostiles, and bitter against us because we have been trying for eight years to take their liberties away from them, their presence in that position was a menace. Our commander, Gen. Leonard Wood, ordered a reconnaissance. It was found that the Moros numbered six hundred, counting women and children; that their crater bowl was in the summit of a peak or mountain twenty-two hundred feet above sea level, and very difficult of access for Christian troops and artillery. Then General Wood ordered a surprise, and went along himself to see the order carried out. Our troops climbed the heights by devious and difficult trails, and even took some artillery with them. The kind of artillery is not specified, but in one place it was hoisted up a sharp acclivity by tackle a distance of some three hundred feet. Arrived at the rim of the crater, the battle began. Our soldiers numbered five hundred and forty. They were assisted by auxiliaries consisting of a detachment of native constabulary in our pay -- their numbers not given -- and by a naval detachment, whose numbers are not stated. But apparently the contending parties were about equal as to number -- six hundred men on our side, on the edge of the bowl; six hundred men, women and children in the bottom of the bowl. Depth of the bowl, 50 feet. "Gen. Wood's order was, "Kill or capture the six hundred." "The battle began-it is officially called by that name-our forces firing down into the crater with their artillery and their deadly small arms of precision; the savages furiously returning the fire, probably with brickbats-though this is merely a surmise of mine, as the weapons used by the savages are not nominated in the cablegram. Heretofore the Moros have used knives and clubs mainly; also ineffectual trade-muskets when they had any. " "The next day, Sunday, -- which was yesterday -- the cable brought us additional news - still more splendid news -- still more honor for the flag. The first display-head shouts this information at us in the stentorian capitals: "WOMEN SLAIN MORO SLAUGHTER." "Slaughter" is a good word. Certainly there is not a better one in the Unabridged Dictionary for this occasion The next display line says: "With Children They Mixed in Mob in Crater, and All Died Together." "They were mere naked savages, and yet there is a sort of pathos about it when that word children falls under your eye, for it always brings before us our perfectest symbol of innocence and helplessness; and by help of its deathless eloquence color, creed and nationality vanish away and we see only that they are children -- merely children. And if they are frightened and crying and in trouble, our pity goes out to them by natural impulse. We see a picture. We see the small forms. We see the terrified faces. We see the tears. We see the small hands clinging in supplication to the mother; but we do not see those children that we are speaking about. We see in their places the little creatures whom we know and love. "The next heading blazes with American and Christian glory like to the sun in the zenith: ""Death List is Now 900." "I was never so enthusiastically proud of the flag till now!" So after a history of giving the Peace Prize to warmongers, killers and torturers, the Norwegian Nobel Committee could try to redeem the image of the award by giving the "Peace" Prize to peacemakers, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. It would go a long ways in making up for 2009 if if this year the committee gave a deserved peace prize to the men of peace who were tortured or sought for torture by the Nobel Peace Prize man of war. If you wish to join the movement to restore the integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize, check out these Facebook pages. Bradley Manning for a Nobel Peace Prize and Julian Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize . Submitters Bio: The author is the chairman of a liberal Democratic organization that is working to move the country towards its true base, the people. She has organized major human rights events and worked with some of the most liberal leaders in America. Her career has included work as a criminal defense attorney, a licensed private investigator, an educator and a writer. 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