Leaker Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Prize by American Group

RootsAction.org is urging that Manning receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

An international petition with well over 100000 signatories urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee (NNC) to bestow the coveted Nobel Peace Prize to Pfc. Bradley Manning -- recently convicted of several charges related to his stealing classified documents -- will be turned over to the NNC in Oslo Norway on Monday a U.S.-based activist group announced.

Norman Solomon the co-founder of RootsAction.org is expected to deliver the petition to the office of the Nobel Committee and a committee member confirmed he will officially receive it according to Roots Action.

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Corrigan-Maguire who was honored in 1976 has formally nominated Manning for the honor.

The petition -- urging the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to Manning -- has been signed by Americans in every state. While the vast majority of signers are U.S. citizens the petition has also been signed by people in scores of other countries. It includes tens of thousands of individual comments from signers all of which will be presented to the Nobel Committee as part of the petition according to Solomon.

Solomon added: Its easy to insist that Bradley Manning must face the consequences of his actions. But we badly need whistleblowers like Manning because U.S. government leaders do not face the consequences of their actions including perpetual warfare abroad and assaults on civil liberties at home. No government should have the power to keep waging war while using secrecy to cloak policies that cannot stand the light of day."

While the petition mentions the U.S. government the military and the intelligence community it fails to mention another Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama who has lambasted Manning and his supporters said George Wentsworth a former federal law enforcement official specializing in the analysis of intelligence.

This group Roots Action is well received by the Nobel people because they all share the same left-wing new-world-order philosophy Wentsworth said. The Nobel Prize has degenerated into a mere gimmick or prop for the radical socialists and one-world-government advocates.