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polly7

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Tue Apr 2, 2013, 10:16 AM Apr 2013

Solomon: An Outpouring of Love and Support for Bradley Manning to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize

By Norman Solomon

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

During the last week of March, more than 30,000 people signed a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning. While the numbers continue to mount on the petition website, so do the comments from individual signers.

Thousands have already written personal notes to explain their support for the petition. I hope the Nobel committee reads the comments carefully when the petition arrives in Oslo later this spring.

As a U.S. Army private -- seeing massive evidence of official deception, human rights abuses and flagrant killing of civilians -- Bradley Manning did not just follow orders. Instead, he became a whistleblower, supplying vast troves of documents to WikiLeaks, exposing duplicity that had enormous impacts from Iraq and Afghanistan to Egypt and Tunisia.

Manning, now 25 years old, could be in prison for the rest of his life. But while the U.S. government tries to crush him, it’s clear that many Americans love him -- and would be thrilled to see him win the Nobel Peace Prize. The following samples of comments from petition signers begin to explain why:


http://www.zcommunications.org/an-outpouring-of-love-and-support-for-bradley-manning-to-receive-the-nobel-peace-prize-by-norman-solomon
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Solomon: An Outpouring of Love and Support for Bradley Manning to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize (Original Post) polly7 Apr 2013 OP
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Bradley Manning should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Faryn Balyncd Apr 2013 #3
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