Treason should not be rewarded with a Peace Prize.
All 80 ?journalists,? ?human rights activists? and ?trade union members? arrested six months ago in Cuba were convicted for their paid actions on behalf of a foreign power that has waged war for more than 40 years against the Cuban people. Anyone who views Oswaldo Paya and others as independent ?dissidents? striving to create a free and independent civil society fails to see them as what they truly are, instruments of aggression manipulated by the United States. Each is a knowing participant in active operations to overthrow the Cuban government and install a U.S.-sponsored economic, political and social order. Whoever, in his country, receives money from a foreign power to undermine his government, is considered a traitor in any nation in the world, including the United States and Cuba.
The U.S. government, through numerous channels, finances Oswaldo Paya and supposedly free and independent journalists and agencies in Cuba, overtly and covertly. These people are funded and directed by a hostile government and under such total control, they are neither free nor independent.
Oswaldo Paya and his cohorts are members of a web of U.S.-led terrorism and constant violation of international law directed against Cuba, leading to the death and incapacitation of more than 5,000 Cuban citizens. What government in the world would sit idly by and watch this happen?
Active involvement in terrorism and subversion makes a person neither peaceful nor worthy of accolades like the Nobel Peace Prize.
