[Peace-discuss] the Peace Prize goes to whom?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

They'd enter the admired company of 

Barack Obama
Al Gore
Shimon Peres
Elie Wiesel
Monachem Begin
Henry Kissinger
Cordell Hull
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt

--all with blood on their hands.

On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Nobel PEACE PRIZE goes to OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition
> of Chemical Weapons), and I disagree with the Nobel Committee yet
> again!
> 
> In my opinion, the prize would be better administrated if it were to
> go to the people who wrote the treaty about chemical weapons: the
> "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production,
> Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction"
> rather than the enforcers of the treaty.
> 
> There were so many better nominees! people who save lives, people who
> speak for the silenced and against the power that silences.
> 
> I kind of think that the OPCW does not change whether people die but
> how they die. And they don't challenge the United States' use of
> chemical weapons. It seems they enforce the treaty when the US wants
> it enforced.
> 
> Hey, if they wanted to award the prize to people who sacrifice their
> lives for the good of the world, then give the prize to the people who
> worked to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster!
> 
> -karen medina
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- karen medina
> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
> 
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