Chinese Dissident Liu Wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Crabtownboy]

This is going to make the Chinese government and the conservatives in China very angry.

OSLO, Norway (Oct. 8) -- Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" - a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honor him.

Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, said Liu Xiaobo (LEE-o SHAo-boh) was a symbol for the fight for human rights in China and the government should expect that its policies face scrutiny.

"China has become a big power in economic terms as well as political terms, and it is normal that big powers should be under criticism," Jagland said.

Unlike some in China's highly fractured and persecuted dissident community, the 54-year-old Liu has been an ardent advocate for peaceful, gradual political change, rather than a violent confrontation with the government.

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[Bro. Curtis]

Do you think this guy is a hero ?

I have two thoughts. Possibly three.

First, there is nothing conservative about the old-guard Chinese government.

Second, the Nobel folks probably cost this guy a lot of pain & suffering.

Third, if this guy is a hero, then I want all the folks telling me to be a good Christian and obey my government to shut up.

 

[targus]

First, there is nothing conservative about the old-guard Chinese government.

No - Crabby is right.

In China the "conservatives" would be the ones who support the old Mao style communism - much like our "liberals". :laugh:

 

[preachinjesus]

This is a very, very good decision by the Nobel committee.

It begins to make up for their mistake last year.