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October 15, 2007
Al Gore's Nobel
I haven't posted anything about Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize because I think the award was discredited when it was given to Yassir Arafat. If the award committee doesn't take it seriously, why should I?
This year, though, the committee outdid itself. Here's who it ignored in favor of Gore:
Irena Sendler, born in 1910, was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an epidemic in 1917. He was the only doctor in his town near Warsaw who would treat the poor, mostly Jewish victims of this tragic disease. As he was dying, he told 7-year-old Irena, "If you see someone drowning you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim." In 1939 the Nazis swept through Poland and imprisoned the Jews in ghettos where they were first starved to death and then systematically murdered in killing camps. Irena, by than a social worker in Warsaw, saw the Jewish people drowning and resolved to do what she could to rescue as many as possible, especially the children. Working with a network of other social workers and brave Poles, mostly women, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid them safely until the end of the war.Sendler was tortured and nearly killed for her principles.
Al Gore doesn't even live according to his.
The Nobel Committee may want to re-examine its criteria for the award if they want it to be taken seriously in the future.
Posted by slublog at October 15, 2007 10:53 PM
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