WikiLeaks Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

From AlterNet:

Julian Assange's whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian politician Snorre Valen, who was behind the nod, tells Reuters. Valen called WikiLeaks one of the century's "most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency" and said that "[b]y disclosing information about corruption, human rights abuses and war crimes, WikiLeaks is a natural contender for the Nobel Peace Prize."

Can you imagine the sh*tstorm that would ensue if WikiLeaks actually won? The way the government is scrutinizing and dragging through the mud everyone involved with the site, you can bet the Nobel committee would feel major heat if they awarded WikiLeaks the prize.

More here.

Right. And if you think the shitstorm coming out of the Fox and Tea Party sector about Obama winning the prize was something for the ages, just imagine how fun it would be to watch the US establishment go into freak-out mode over Wikileaks getting it. I mean, we'd finally have something to be bipartisan about. Democrats and Republicans alike are frothing at the mouth over Wikileaks. Professional television "liberal" Bob Beckel, for instance, openly called for the assassination of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while pontificating a few months back on Fox News. I'm really hoping this nomination gets some traction with the Nobel committee. Not only do I think the organization ought to get the honor, I'm really hoping to see the US establishment totally lose it's mind.

I'm already on record as being in full support for what Assange and Wikileaks are doing, in as much as the light they're shining on both governmental and corporate secret corrupt bullshit. But I think I may very well love the spectacle of it all even more. These leaks are playing themselves out on a global stage, like a cool play, but over the course of many days, with major and minor characters strutting and fretting their hour on the boards, gnashing their teeth and all that. Throwing in a Nobel Prize as funky deus ex machina makes it even more theatrical.

This is fun. Really fun. And I'm thinking that the Nobel people these days are all about sticking their finger in authority's eye. Giving the Peace Prize to Wikileaks would be totally in keeping with that. I can't wait.

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