The Taiwan media has reported in recent days that a Nobel Peace Prize nominator has come to Taiwan and approached Shih Ming-teh about possible nomination for the 2007 Prize. Here’s a report from the deep-blue United Daily News (in Chinese).
Shih won a Nobel nomination in 1984 for his role in the anti-KMT movement. Now he seems to be on his way to a second nomination for his Red Shirt protests in alliance with his former enemies against his former allies. :snivel:
He’s probably too small fry to get the prize, but even a nomination would be a big blow to the DPP’s image because it would put the Nobel imprimatur on the supposed role change between the KMT and the Tangwai/DPP as the oppressor and the oppressed.
Do you think Shih will get a nomination this time?
If you want to lodge a complaint, the Nobel committee’s contact information is here.
I am writing in response to reports in the Taiwan media suggesting Shih Ming-the is being considered for a possible Nobel Peace Prize in light of the man’s recent attempts to undermine Taiwanese democracy. udn.com/2006/11/17/NEWS/NATI … 8061.shtml
While I applaud Shih’s early work in Taiwan’s democracy movement, his persistent attempts this year to employ means outside of the democratic process to bring down Taiwan’s incumbent President via street protests when there were legitimate means available to lodge his objections are a very sad reflection on the man’s understanding of the democratic political process and indeed, given his previous relationship with Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, could be construed as a case of very sour grapes.
Furthermore, I believe bestowing an award as esteemed as the Nobel Peace Prize to Shih Ming-the would make a mockery of previous awards to outstanding dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela.
I don’t think the nomination process works this way… I thought it was pretty much a secret who was being considered until “the call” comes. Anyone know?
Jesus! I hope it is just UDN making up things as usual. Take comfort – Kissinger, Lee Duc Theiu, Rigoberta Menchu and other frauds have also gotten them.
Still, I’ll fire off a long letter tomorrow. Thanks, Levitator.
Here’s some info on how the nomination process works. The committee sends out application forms every year to qualified nominators of its own choosing. Then the committee prepares a shortlist out of these applications. I’m not sure at which stage a person is deemed “nominated” though.
Did you folks all go to the Shelly Rigger Make Excuses for Greaseball and the County Hag School of Politics? Shih Ming Teh is right, he has no choice but to take it to the streets. Greaseball is immune in office and while he is there he is happily stealing your tax money and ferreting it off (I presume) to either Pow-lao (or what ever that little shit dot in the Pacific is) and/or California.
A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about foreigners who can not hack the fact that the DPP dream/myth has run its course and now we are in reality-ville. Man up nxxxxs and face it. (I would use the whole quote but the N word is verboten.)
Having said all that, leading a street protest in the safety of modern Taiwan is not grounds for Noble Prize and as Sandman pointed out the Nobel Committee does not operate that way. I know it from my days with Amnesty International here in Taiwan when from time to time we (the AI Taiwan group, not me personally) were approached regarding one nominee or another.
I strongly suspect the media report is utter horseshit, which is, as Dragonbones pointed out, always a solid winning bet in Taiwan. Kids who bother reading the papers here and then quoting them in their blogs really need new hobbies. Get out, get some sun, learn taiji, chase girls…do something but don’t read the papers or watch t.v. and then yack about it…not a healthy hobby.
Shih stressed “I’m very happy that the international community has noticed Taiwan’s anti-corruption movement. This is the pride of Taiwanese.” But Shih believed he was still a long way off (from the prize) and he looked at it with equilibrium. [/i]
Some reports even include a photo of Shih chatting with the so-called nominator. See this Sina report.
Kind of defeats the purpose, wouldn’t you think? Man up, bitch!
Excuses for greaseball? Umm, did you post this in the wrong thread, or do you really think Shih deserves a Nobel Peace Prize? If you are privy to some private counsel, please, feel free, we won’t tell.
I’m not sure where AI fits into the picture, but according to the Nobel website , the committee chooses and invites people to serve as nominators, who then choose potential nominees and send the info to the committee. The committee then creates a shortlist out of these applications. Here’s from the Nobel Peace Prize website:
Selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The process begins in September when the Nobel Committee send the condifential foms to selected nominators.
I don’t rule out the possibility that it’s all bullshit. But it’s also possible that the guy is one of the nominators picked by the committee. The timing also seems to fit. It’s supposed to be “confidential” all right. But on the other hand Shih is quoted in the reports so I don’t see how the papers can make up the story unless he is part of the scam. Or did they simply make up the quotes? Well. He hasn’t come out and denied them afaik.
EDIT: Ah, so all in all it looks like the newspaper or someone else sent a fake nominator and Shih was conned. Or it’s all an elaborate scam in which Shih is an accomplice.
Sorry about that, HGC and Taipeidawg, and everyone else who sent complaints to the Nobel committee.
He had no choice? You’re full of “brown-colored, foul-smelling qi”… It might have given him a bit of credibility with those people that neither backed the KMT nor defended the DPP if he could have waited until the investigation results came in. You view the redshirts’ actions, which at that time were based on talk show content and media inflammation, as justifiable, and at the same time portray people as fools for believing what they read in the papers.
