TPF exec endorses petition to investigate awarding of Nobel Peace prize to Obama

[Tony Nuspl]

This petition, being circulated by David Swanson, is online here: http://warisacrime.org/nobel

At our recent meeting, held on Thursday March 8th 2012, the TPF executive endorsed the petition movement.

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In 2009 when US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama had just been placed in a position of great power promising to expand the world's largest military, to escalate a war, and to launch strikes into other nations without any war declarations.  He showed up to collect his winnings and gave a speech justifying and praising war.  His acceptance speech rejected a previous laureate's (MLK’s) speech as too peaceful. 

The 2009 Nobel Prize recipient, President Barack Obama, did not even attempt to earn his award as some had hoped but has instead followed through on his speech justifying and praising war.  This hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed by many other people in the world, prompting 1980 Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel’s recent letter to the 2009 peace laureate bemoaning the fact that Obama is waging wars on behalf of the military industrial complex and “burying himself more and more in violence and devoured by the domination of power”.  In addition to directly contradicting the terms of Alfred Nobel’s last will, the awarding of the world’s foremost peace prize to a militarist who states his intent to wage war, perniciously serves the opposite purpose.

http://warisacrime.org/nobel

[Tony Nuspl]

Obama has pursued policies that epitomize King’s grim warning in 1967: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”

King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.

by Norman Solomon, January 17, 2013

http://original.antiwar.com/solomon/2013/01/16/king-i-have-a-dream-...

In recent weeks, more than 50,000 Americans have signed a petition to Ban Weaponized Drones from the World. The petition says that “weaponized drones are no more acceptable than land mines, cluster bombs or chemical weapons.” It calls for President Obama “to abandon the use of weaponized drones, and to abandon his ‘kill list’ program regardless of the technology employed.”

In response, the Obama administration has upped the number of petition signatures to 100,000 signatures needed, before getting an official response.