Why give Chinese dissidents the Nobel Peace prize?

"...Possible candidates could be Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power." Another could be Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. He now lives in the United States...."





What have these two guys done to create peace? Is attempting to cause a coup or civil war / instability peaceful? Or is Nobel just interested in poking at China?|||The prise committe is a closed group of snobby elitist with political correctness gone amuk. Who cares. Altho it IS a lot of money.|||Anyone who opposes communism is a Hero, some just have a more profound impact than others|||Why not,, They gave it to Carter and Gore for absolutely nothing. It has become a meaningless award that is bestowed not for accomplishments but for the furthering of a communist doctrine..|||I guess the Nobel Committee didn't get the egg roll they were supposed to get with their dinner, so now they're mad at the Chinese...|||he made great success on optic fiber, so it is a great contribution of the whole world, right? Civil war has finished for over 30 yrs, he also became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is a kind of great honor in china.|||Why give psychopathic misanthrope Milton Friedman a Nobel Prize? The Gunpowder Manufacturer's High Efficiency Death Award has been suspect in my mind at least since the canonization of Friedman. Here is a man that openly theorizes humans possess "unique naturally occuring talents and abilities" and the human with fewer talents and abilities should never interfere with the personal ambitions of the human with greater talents and abilities... Damn, Hitler came THAT close to nabbing one of those big shiny golden discs if only he omitted the ethnic orientation of his 'natually occurring unique talents and abilities' theory. Oh well, better luck next time Hitler. Live and learn.|||You have to be a do nothing liberal.