Nobel Peace Prize Commitee-Shame on them!

[Ratical2]

This story is true. What do you think of the evolution of the Nobel Prize awards? Political, or deserved? Al Gore, or Irena Sendler? The Nobel Prize has been a political award now for many, many years. Occasionally, politics and justice do coincide, but rarely. I have lost all admiration and reverence for this award. For the most part, it is a sham.

The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving--see below and you will see why:*

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' .... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids.) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a re cord of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most of course had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.


Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.



*Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp

[ViperJay]

i think al gore should be gassed. he is a gas bag afterall. i thought he got the nobel for inventing the internet? my bad...

[ViperGTS]

Too bad if true....Irena was a hero in her time!

Al is nothing at all...

[ViperJay]

remember, there is a large cash prize with a nobel. its a great way to pay off your political croneys.

[Tusc]

I'm steamed over here. >=[

[Andrew/USPWR]

Wow, great story.

I remember when they gave it to Carter because they didn't want to give it to Bush and, told Carter and everyone else that. I was shocked Carter sill excepted it. What a loser.


Published on Friday, October 11, 2002 by Reuters
Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Swipe at Bush
by Alister Doyle

Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Swipe at Bush

Quote:
U.S. lawmakers gave Bush solid bipartisan support on Thursday for a strike on Iraq, despite wide misgivings abroad.

But the chairman of the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee said bluntly that the award was meant to slam Bush's policy on Iraq.

"With the position Carter has taken...(the award) can and must also be seen as criticism of the line the current U.S. administration has taken on Iraq," Committee head Gunnar Berge, a former labor minister, told reporters.

Asked by a reporter if it was a "kick in the leg" at Washington, Berge said: "Yes, the answer is an unconditional 'yes."' On Friday, Carter declined to comment on Iraq.

[dave6666]

How come my phone never rings come candidate selection time? I do stuff.

[slaughterj]

Originally Posted by dave6666

How come my phone never rings come candidate selection time? I do stuff.

Getting a piece is different from getting peace.

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a pathetic joke since it was awarded to Yasser Arafat.