Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize

First time accepted submitter DigitalKhaos23 writes "Snowden is a candidate for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, which honors people or organizations for their work in the defense of human rights and freedom of thought. The article adds: 'Edward Snowden risked his life to confirm what we had long suspected regarding mass online surveillance, a major scandal of our times. He revealed details of violations of EU data protection law and fundamental rights.'"

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His has been nominated

[MrL0G1C]

"Bahnhof, a builder of futuristic-looking data centers" Has nominated Snowden for the peace prize.

I wouldn't expect those morally corrupt idiots to actually award him the prize. It would restore some of their credibility if they did though.

Re:Lets give him Obama's Nobel Prize

[Anonymous Coward]

Obama won the prize for the achievement of not being Bush.

Really? I thought he won the prize for pulling the wool over 300 million people's eyes by convincing us he's not Bush...when he really is.

Re:It wouldn't be a problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Also the Kings and queens in these countries usually have .. how would I best describe it.. latent powers. Usually they have huge powers, that they in reality can't use, because if they use them they will be stripped away. The monarch is also pretty much always somewhat above the law, the king can't be prosecuted. It's kind of a gentlemans deal that they won't actually do anything that would lead to prosecution. Also the kings in many monarchies serve as a kind of persistent political figure, and as a link between countries. They often act as an advisor/mentor for the acting prime minister, or whatever the acting head of political power is. Kings offer stability, they won't be switched by elections, and they also offer some kind of last resort fallback in case the state becomes paralyzed for some reason. All in all, modern monarchs are mostly figureheads, and representatives of their respective countries, but they do have other uses as well.

Re:Don't Forget Jimmy Carter

[compro01]

It's not like Obama had a Democratic House AND Senate his first 2 year or anything, or a lot of goodwill all over the world....

He didn't. He had a majority in both the House and Senate, but only had a fillibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate for a total of 181 days (and the Senate was only in session for 94 of those days), from August 25, 2009 until February 4, 2010 and again from June 28, 2010 until July 16, 2010.