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https://ethicsalarms.com/2024/02/05/worst-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-ever/
Worst Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Ever?
FEBRUARY 5, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
Giving a Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama for doing nothing but
existing looks increasingly reasonable. A member of the Norwegian
Parliament just made a sufficiently outrageous nomination for the honor
to topple the previous champion while making Obama look like the Dalai Lama.
The previous prize for a ridiculous nomination came in 2021, when a
different member of the Norwegian Parliament, Petter Eide, formally
nominated Black Lives Matter for the honor. “I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the
kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Eide said. “Black
Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight
racial injustice. They have had a tremendous achievement in raising
global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.” Riiight.
By the time Eide had filed his nomination, the George Floyd “mostly peaceful” protests led by the Marxist group had caused billions of
dollars in damage, destroyed businesses, and spread vandalism, arson,
looting and violence across the U.S. At least 19 people died during the protests. Many police officers were shot, injured, hit deliberately by automobiles, and bloodied by rocks, bricks and bottles.Four officers
were shot in St. Louis; another police officer was shot in the head at a
Las Vegas casino while trying to arrest a protester; nearly 400 officers
were injured in New York City. In Los Angeles, two officers were shot
while sitting in their patrol car. Protesters blocked the responding
ambulance from taking them to the hospital.
You know: peace.
Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights activist Andrew Young said that
riots, violence, and looting “hurt the cause instead of helping it.”
That depends on what you consider “the cause.” The riots enshrined anti-white racism in the schools, universities, laws, businesses and
popular culture. Race relations in the U.S. are worse now than they have
been in half a century. Still, to be fair, it must be conceded that the
Black Lives Matter leadership made a fortune before most donors figured
out that the organization was a racket, so at least the insanity was
profitable for them.
How could there be a more unethical nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
than that one? The august Norwegian Parliament was up to the challenge! (Remember, the Nobel prizes originate in Norway.)
MP Asmund Aukrust announced that he had nominated UNRWA, the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, “for its long-term work
to provide vital support to Palestine and the region in general,” adding
that “this work has been crucial for over 70 years, and even more vital
in the last three months.” Riiight.
At least twelve members of UNRWA were almost certainly involved in the terrorist attack on Israel, thus making the work of the corrupted agency “even more vital” since October 7. The same Israeli intelligence report that named the twelve (now fired) also concluded that about 1,200 UNRWA employees in Gaza are committed to the Hamas jihad.
The Nobel Peace Prize has forfeited all of its legitimacy by becoming a
purely political operation, embarrassing its founder Alfred Nobel and
staining his legacy with both its awards and its process.
As for the Norwegian parliament, I think George Santos and the Squad
could have a bright future there.
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