Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award

another random user sends this news from the BBC: "Edward Snowden, the fugitive American former intelligence worker, has made the shortlist of three for the Sakharov prize, Europe's top human rights award. Mr Snowden was nominated by Green politicians in the European Parliament for leaking details of U.S. surveillance. Nominees also include Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head for demanding education for girls. Former recipients of the prize, awarded by the European Parliament, include Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr Snowden's nomination recognized that his disclosure of U.S. surveillance activities was an 'enormous service' to human rights and European citizens, the parliament's Green group said."

Comments

Some sense in the world

[chr1st1anSoldier]

Glad to see some sense in the world and this gentleman get some positive recognition for what he has done.

Re:Comparative sacrifice

[Anonymous Coward]

Giving it to Snowden at least is partial reparation for the ludicrous decision of giving Big Brother Obummer the Nobel Peace Prize. He's been worse than dipshit Dubya in pretty much every category. And with Dubya being borderline retarded that's saying something:

Re:Comparative sacrifice

[girlintraining]

The leak accomplishes a lot. Maybe not in the short term, but

But nothing. No good or service has been generated by the leak. The idea that speech, in and of itself, accomplishes anything is stupid; Were it otherwise, I could march out into the woods and talk to the trees and make a fortune. Words are not actions. Words are words. When people listen, and choose to take action because of them, then the words have value. Not until, or unless. The founding fathers didn't just sit down, bang out the Constitution, and then call it at that, having won the entire revolutionary war. They said what they had to say, to organize people to fight. And when they fought, and won, those words became meaningful.

Leaking by itself accomplishes nothing. Nadda. Zip. If it offends you, you should probably disconnect from the internet and go live in a tree somewhere.