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Liu Xiaobo should've won this Nobel Peace Prize last year. Instead, in 2009, the Nobel committee beclowned itself, and with it's poor choice awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the status of a Crackerjack box booby prize.

Finally, they do get one right, but the award's worth is now forever questionable.

Liu Xiaobo...the poor guy's stuck in prison in China, serving 11 years, for a lifetime of dissent against the Communists, and likely will never know he's won this award. I'll be his life expectancy is much shortened. The Chinese can't afford to ever let him out, because with this sort of acclaim, he's a much bigger enemy than he ever was...

Blacklisted from academia and barred from publishing in China, Mr. Liu has been harassed and detained repeatedly since 1989, when he stepped into the drama playing out on Tiananmen Square by staging a hunger strike and then negotiating the peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as thousands of soldiers stood by with rifles at the ready.

“If not for the work of Liu and the others to broker a peaceful withdrawal from the square, Tiananmen Square would have been a field of blood on June 4,” said Gao Yu, a veteran journalist who was arrested in the hours before the tanks began moving through the city.

His most recent arrest in December of 2008 came a day before a reformist manifesto he helped craft began circulating on the Internet. The petition, entitled Charter ‘08, demanded that China’s rulers embrace human rights, judicial independence and the kind of political reform that would ultimately end the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.

“For all these years, Liu Xiaobo has persevered in telling the truth about China and because of this, for the fourth time, he has lost his personal freedom,” his wife, Liu Xia, said earlier this week.

Given his detention, it is unclear how Mr. Liu would take possession of the prize, which includes a gold medal, a diploma and the equivalent of $1.46 million.

He was in prison last year, when you gave this prize to Obama, you Nobel Nincompoops.

Maybe that should be a prerequisite for giving a Nobel Peace Prize, that the recipient be in jail, or served time in jail. They would've had to wait a while to give it to BHO.

China, the brutal regime who makes the USA 'solvent', is not amused. The Chinese power cabal is 'furious'...

"Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Awarding the peace prize to Liu "runs completely counter to the principle of the prize and is also a blasphemy to the peace prize", the statement said.

"...blasphemy to the peace prize" ? Where were you last year?

Screw the Chinese. They've become an economic and world superpower by manufacturing with ultra-cheap labor and selling the USA their morally ugly goods.

China's one-child policy gives them ample cash supplies, that they then use to buy our worthless paper debt-bonds to keep our own dirty socialists happy and in power. The Chinese money they use to finance our debt is the direct result of China's policy of mass eugenics. China has a one-child-per-family mandate, selective childbirth, one-child only, with forced abortions, to the tune of 11,000,000 abortions per year. That's a lot of blood running to keep the USA cheaply clothed and trinketed.

Loves us some Chinese, we Americans; instead of being the self-sufficient superpower we once were, we are beholden to a bloody regime of Communists, a superpower because we made them one, a superpower that force-kills their own children, a superpower that just so happens to holds this dissident Liu Xiaobo in jail. For that they get the spotlight of the once-bright Nobel Peace Prize, that's now operating at quarter-wattage at best.

Yes, this Nobel Peace Prize award is 365 days late, and a few trillion dollars and 11 million lives short. Thanks, Nobel Committee, you evil-clown fucks.

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