Pejman Yousefzadeh has a similar reaction as I do to the Nobel Peace Prize, and a proposal that is similar to the Sharkansky Peace Prize. But he writes more eloquently than I do when he suggests that the Nobel committee should offer a Nobel Freedom Prize.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 18, 2003 11:10 AMglad you two got together on this one. It's overdue. It's a sad commentary that there is no well-known international organization who might champion such a prize. Certainly not the U.N., the Red Cross, Amnesty International. Is freedom really such a strange Western idea that it has so few champions?
Posted by: Dave Sheridan on October 19, 2003 04:14 AMNobel, the inventor of dynamite, hoped it would be such a powerful weapon that it would end all wars. He valued peace above freedom.
Why not get Bush or some of the other Neo-Cons to sponsor a Freedom prize, since they clearly value freedom over peace.
Posted by: Simon on October 21, 2003 10:56 PM