{"id":187027,"date":"2013-07-17T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/17\/what-stefan-svallfors-said\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:47:00","slug":"what-stefan-svallfors-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/17\/what-stefan-svallfors-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Stefan Svallfors Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/07\/15\/edward_snowden_nominated_for_nobel_peace_prize\/\">nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> as a way for the Nobel committee to atone for giving the aware do Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his\u201cheroic effort at great personal cost.\u201d He stated that by revealing the existence and the scale of the US surveillance programs, Snowden showed \u201cindividuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis example is important because since the Nuremberg trials in 1945 has been clear that the slogan \u2018I was just following orders\u2019 is never claimed as an excuse for acts contrary to human rights and freedoms,\u201d Professor Svallfors wrote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He emphasized that the decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would also \u201chelp to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award US President Barack Obama 2009 award.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not being George W. Bush is an insufficient reason to give someone a f%$#ing Nobel f%$#ing Peace prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize as a way for the Nobel committee to atone for giving the aware do Obama: In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his\u201cheroic effort at great personal cost.\u201d He stated that by revealing the existence and the scale &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1051,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-hypocrisy","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}