The Orwell Peace Prize

Martha Rose Crow
SOTT.net
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:55 UTC

Right after Christmas, my nephew is leaving for another tour in Afghanistan. My Sister's heart and my heart are broken. The chances are good that this time he's coming back in a box with a flag on top of it.

But in many ways, he's dead already. Like many soldiers who've come back from the middle east, he's wired on self-destruct. My Sister has told me that she can't count the times she's taken guns away from him when he was threatening suicide because those times have been so many.

When I was a child, I was highly idealistic. I wanted to swim the English Channel. I wanted to live an exceptional life. I wanted to graduate from the university and perform work that would improve the lives of others. I wanted to be a peace maker and I wanted to earn a Nobel Peace Prize.

Back then, I didn't know about the dirty money connected with the prizes; that they came from money made from munitions or that the principal of the endowment was invested in more implements of war and/or of human oppression like capitalism that rapes the world for cheap natural resources and cheap human labor.

My childhood idealism about the Nobel Peace Prize waned a long time ago. It took awhile, but I learned that it was awarded by elites to politically 'frame the culture' of 'peace' and/or use the awardee as propaganda for the elite. It seemed to me that too many of the real peace makers are never awarded any prizes for their work and that too many heads of states are awarded it instead.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, 'War is Peace' and 'Peace is War'. Orwell's book paints a psychopathic universe where reality is the opposite of what it really is. In Oceana, the place where the book takes place, Lies Rule: they Become the Truth. The whole place is built upon the lies of the 'party' or the ruling elite.

When I saw that Obama had 'won' the Nobel Peace Prize, I almost fell out of my chair. He's only nine months into his presidency and he has done nothing to stop any of the American wars. Contrarily, he's escalated the war in Afghanistan and spread it to Pakistan. Obama wants to add 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Last I heard, the war in Iraq is still continuing. More, the opaque and unwinnable war against 'terrorism' is still going on as well while the definition of a 'terrorist' keeps expanding to include anyone who opposes tyranny, including war.

What about torture? Obama hasn't done anything to stop it. That status quo merry-go-round of violence and the violence of lies goes on and on.

In lieu of the lack of bringing peace, Obama should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for Economics as more people are out of work now than when he was given the mantel of presidency. This is how great the hypocrisy is.

So what does all of this mean? A group of five elites chose Obama to market lies and deception; to sell an Orwellian world where people are programmed to believe that a war monger, a false messiah of peace, is the ideal peace bringer when in a real reality, he is the farthest from it.

And Obama's nomination in the swill world of the Orwell Peace Prize is in good company. Although they didn't get the prize, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were nominated. History has proven what kind of 'peace makers' they were and history will prove that Obama is of the same ilk.

People see through this ruse and sham. They know that Obama hasn't kept his campaign promises of stopping war and promoting peace. They know that he's being controlled by the powerful and wealthy military industrial complex who stand to lose enormous profits if Obama pursues peace.

This will be my nephew's third tour of duty. For a year (if he stays alive that long), we will live on pins and needles. Every day, we will hope that bad news doesn't arrive at the front door, brought by a well-dressed soldier messenger. Every day, we will hear about new war casualties and worry if he is one of them. We will live in a limbic hell and wait.

And during this time, Obama will escalate the wars, support Israel's illegal wars, while wearing the official Nobel Crown as the 'New Prince of Peace'.

Reader Comments

Joey Tavares · 2009-10-09T15:26:19Z

Hmmm...

I think I found the source of the swine flu...

Joe · 2009-10-09T16:03:58Z

In the last few decades

The nobel peace prize has been very useful for determining where the major problems with our world lie at the time of the awarding of the prize.

Kissinger got it because he was a mass murderer.

Northern Ireland peace campaigners Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan got it because they were attempting to subvert Irish independence and were British agents.

Menachem Begin got it because he was so good at pretending to want peace with the Arabs when he really wanted them all dead, or as close to it as possible. He was directly involved in the murder of his co-laureat, Anwar Sadat, a few years later. Nice guy.

Mother Teresa got it because she was so accomplished at providing a veneer of spirituality to the crimes of the Catholic Church.

Elie Wiesel got it, because he was and is a holocaust liar.

Nelson Mandela got it because it was better to subvert him and turn him into a "man of peace" and get him working the speaking circuit than to have him as an ouspoken critic of Western governments.

Al Gore got it because he has a big mouth and wants to con everyone about the real cause of climate change.

And most recently, President Hope gets it, because, well, because he doesn't get it at all.

System · 2009-10-09T18:54:38Z

The way out

That is very discouraging, both the article and Joe's post, but there is no reason to give up hope.

President Obama is one man taking control of a discouraged, ambivalent executive and confronting powerful and reckless people – he needs our support not our suspicion. We have to take a chance on him.

The sort of changes we want to make in the world do not just happen, they are caused intentionally by all of us demanding them.

There is an alternative to the dog-eat-dog world we presently reside in and a brave and fascinating woman named Jill Bolte Taylor will tell you of it. See [Link]and attend carefully to her advice about right-brain activity.

We all need to inculcate that type of mental attitude. Then everything will be fine. Trust me.

apeguia · 2009-10-10T00:58:02Z

He's not in charge

Obama already had his chance and he blew it from even before stepping into office by condoning the Israeli massacre in Gaza. That was very shameful, but a very adequate warning of how things were going to be with this guy. Many sweet and smart words, but the actions remain just the same as the neocons.

This suggests to me that the presidents of the US - and probably of any country - are simply not in charge. They can say whatever they want, and deep inside their hearts they may believe whatever they want about right or wrong, but in the end they will do the will of some mysterious elite that thinks it's ok to tell lies in order to bomb innocent people and send youngsters to their death. Presidents are at best reluctant accomplices of serious crimes against humanity; at worse, willing psychopaths themselves.

Obama is certainly not getting my support, given his track record. Not in my name!

Yossarian · 2009-10-09T20:49:24Z

Manchurian Candidate or Knowing Deceiver?

"In lieu of the lack of bringing peace, Obama should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for Economics as more people are out of work now than when he was given the mantel of presidency."

I agree, Obama was a chief supporter of the theft of the century(s), the $50 Billion giveaway to the wealthy called TARP. Since they've all gotten so cleanly away with it, yeah, that deserves a prize.

The hypocrisy of giving the "peace prize" to a mass murderer is huge. Great article and comments.

Laferia · 2009-10-10T02:18:33Z

LOL!

Well he does come as a Man of Peace! ............what does Revelations say!

GRiM · 2009-10-10T04:44:53Z

Great catch!

Daniel 8:25; "And by peace he shall destroy THE MANY ..."

System · 2009-10-10T06:02:26Z

Déjà vu

It's kind of interesting that Hitler's name has been popping up today. He presented great hope for the german people before WW 2. What if Obama is doing the same...

jncschroer71 · 2009-10-10T15:26:26Z

MIsinformed to say the least!!!

It is not Obama who wants to send 40,000 more troops. It's your so called military industrial complex that wants them sent. If Bush and Chainman(Channey) were in the White House they would most likely be sent. In regards to the Nobel Prize, It funny how few know what Alfred Nobel was responsible for creating.
It's important to be able to say what you feel. But, remember folks this article is only an opinion NOT fact.

Third_Density_Learner · 2009-10-11T01:09:04Z

Research

You obviously don't get it. This article is not, in any way, implying that Bush would have been better. What it is saying, among other things, is that there is NO DIFFERENCE as to who is in government. Stop making excuses for Obama and do a little research on this site, which I take it you've never even looked at before.