Posted on 10/08/2010 5:39:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China Angered By Selection of Dissident Liu Xiaobo for Nobel Peace Prize
China Calls Choice of Jailed Dissident a 'Blasphemy' on the Prize
By CHITO ROMANA
BEIJING Oct. 8, 2010—
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, angering China which condemned the selection as a "blasphemy" and described Liu as a "criminal."
In choosing Liu, the Nobel committee cited his efforts to use non-violence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland.
Liu, 54, was sentenced to 11 years in prison last December for his role in creating a manifesto entitled Charter 08, calling for democratic reform in China.
China reacted quickly to the Liu's selection, although the announcement was blacked out in China. The BBC and CNN both went to black in China during coverage of the Nobel's selection.
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The BBC and CNN both went to black in China during coverage of the Nobel’s selection................................... There are still emails to get the info out.
The Nobel Peace prize is as worthless as a cracker jack prize, lighten up china, you take the stupid prize way too seriously. Its a joke boys.
Obama did absolutely nothing less this year to earn a second Nobel Peace Prize than he did the year before, but he was screwed out of back-to-back wins by this nobody in a Chinese prison.
All I'll say is that the nominating committee is mostly white.
Boot-lickers!
Maybe the Chinese should convert to Islam and riot. Then the Nobel Committee will back off.
Were algore, Baracko and Jimmy Carter not eligible?
Apparently, the nobel prize committee is still trying to justify their pick last year of Obama, and they made another speech about it during this year’s presentation.
Their latest argument is that it was for beginning negotiations with Russian over a new Start treaty.
What?? Shouldn’t this year be Bill Clinton’s turn? All recent Democrat presidents have received one, including the prez-wannabe (actually, some people still believe he was the ‘legal’ one), except him.
....having said that, he must be a despicable nut because he was awarded the "Nobel peace prize"..and all of the "peace prize" recipients over the last 50 years have been despicable nuts.....
...Yassar Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Algore, president Zer0.....see?...
...maybe I am wrong, and am sweeping with a "broad brush"....if so, I am sure someone here will set me straight....
...but if it smells like a duck....well, you know.
How can you blaspheme against what is nominally an atheistic state?!?!?
Unless...maybe communism really is a religious system with the state as god...
Man up, China. I was angered by the selection of Al Gore and Barack Obama. I got through it, and I will remember in Novemember to take out the trash!
I propose a “free trade” response to the award.
We trade China our nobel winner, for theirs...
Great idea.
Their “dissident” would make a much better American than 0bama ever could or would want to.
Communism or “the state as god” religion
results from nihilism,
which is the natural result of rejecting the Creator.
Good one.
Obviously a dangerous character.
How about Chelsea Clinton?? Afterall, the MSN was telling us that people around the world were giddy over the upcoming wedding.
I don’t know why the Nobel prize were to a Chinese dissent. Given the peace prize recipients over the last 20 years, this year’s award seems so out of place.
China sucks ass.
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