Comments on: How about an international award for hypocrisy?

By: Newshit 27 02 2012 | cuthulansnewshit

Newshit 27 02 2012 | cuthulansnewshit — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:23:48 +0000

[...] How about an international award – without the gold medal, the diploma and the money – for hypocrisy? Such an award could be called the Lebon Prize (reversing Nobel). If there was such an award, the statements of European and American leaders in the immediate aftermath of Russia and China’s veto of the Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria suggest two most obvious nominees for it. One is William Hague, Britain’s Foreign Secretary By exercising their veto “Russia and China have placed themselves on the wrong side of Arab and international opinion.” The second most obvious nominee for a Lebon Prize for hypocrisy is Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN. In condemning the Russian and Chinese vetoes, she said, “For months this Council has been held hostage by a couple of members.” Given that for the Security Council has been held hostage for decades by American vetoes to protect Israel from being called to account for its crimes, that Rice statement is – what I can say without resorting to use of the “F” word? – hypocrisy most naked and taken to its highest level http://www.alanhart.net/how-about-an-international-award-for-hypocrisy/#more-1806 [...]

By: maryam

maryam — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:51:51 +0000

I imagine the Nobel committee is very embarrassed at their poor judgment – at least they should be. I’ve heard there is a movement to ask the prize be given to Bradley Manning. He deserves it much more than anyone I can think of.

By: Steve Meikle

Steve Meikle — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:48:05 +0000

The Nobel Peace prize is already an award for hypocrisy, and it does not even need to be spelled backwards or anything.

They gave it to Obama, a war criminal in the manner of Bush, though a little more articulate in his presentation.

I wrote to the Nobel people telling them they had reduced the peace prize to a meaningless trinket by giving it to a war criminal, but of course they did not reply.

By: Rehmat

Rehmat — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:15:17 +0000

I will not be surprised if William Hague do receive the prize on recommendations by Conservative friends of Israel. In 2010 – Haque told them “I am a natural friend of Israel”, and to prove it he asserted that “it would be a mistake to ever rule out military action against Iran”.

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/hague-i-will-fight-iran-for-israel/

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:55:01 +0000

One thing is for sure. It is much more easier to win the Lebon award for hypocrisy then it is to show those achievements that would win a person the Nobel. Why do these people do this? What are they expecting to gain? What should it profit a man if he gain the whole world and in the end lose his own soul? After the ending of the world as we know it is finally finished, I hope that many of you have made the right decisions to walk upright, honest and in that direction the Lord God leads. I would like to meet you on that other side.

By: International award for hypocrisy | The Examined Life

International award for hypocrisy | The Examined Life — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:19:27 +0000

[...] award for hypocrisy February 9, 2012By wkAlan Hart recently wrote this emotional but accurate article on his blog, asking for the introduction of an international Award for Hypocrisy as a consequence of the [...]

By: maryam

maryam — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:49:29 +0000

I would definitely nominate Barack Obama (after stripping him of the Nobel Peace prize he got so unfairly in 2009), for the extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and for threatening the American peace activists who were to sail on the Audacity to Hope to Gaza last year with charges of material support for terrorism. I could go on but these are two of his worst human rights crimes.

By: Vera Gottlieb

Vera Gottlieb — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:29:58 +0000

Wasn’t it just reported that UK military is involved in Homs, ‘aiding’ the ‘revolutionaries’? As someone wrote some time ago…it is the Anglo/Saxon axis that bears watching, not the ‘axis of evil’.