This year, we will be awarding the inaugural Torquemada Award for the most despicable human being alive. The award is named after Tomás de Torquemada, first Inquisitor General of Spain, who tortured, killed and exiled thousands of people in God's name.
The winners will be chosen through popular vote via the Internet. First, we will select 50 candidates through a process of nomination, and then we will eliminate 10 candidates from the list everyday until we have just 10 people on the list. Then we will eliminate one candidate from the list until we have a winner.
Please nominate your candidate as a comment on this thread. The nominations must take the following form:
"For a, b, and c, I nominate x for the Torquemada Award."
Example:
"For selling Bush's war to the world, lying to the British people and turning Britain into a police state, I nominate Tony Blair for the Torquemada Award".
If possible, please include links to sources of information about the person you nominate.
If the candidate is already on the list, it would be better vote that comment up, instead of starting a new comment. You may post replies to any comments, but new comments should only be nominations.
If we have more than 50 candidates, the nominees with least number of points will be eliminated until we have a winner.
The nomination round will run from now, until 1800 GMT on Sunday, 25 February.
Go ahead and nominate. May the worst human being win!
Vladimir Putin
For undermining Russia's fledgling democracy, killing journalists covering the atrocities in Chechnya including Anna Politkovskaya, and using gas supplies to browbeat neighbors, I nominate Vladimir Putin for the Torquemada Award.
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Seconded
For abusing his "elected" position and misappropriating (for his own personal gain) some $40 billion of state assets rightfully belonging to the Russian people, for directly or tacitly approving the murder of Alexandr Litvinenko in London and other state-sponsored criminal activities, I nominate Vladimir Putin for the Torquemada award.
Tom Cruise
For being the public face of the evil cult of Scientology that has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, I nominate Tom Cruise for the Torquemada Award.
More information:
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tr...
George W. Bush
For murdering a million civilians in Iraq, bankrupting the US economy, eroding civil liberties, shredding the constitution, stealing elections, undermining democracy, lying to the American people, destroying the nation's credibility, re-igniting the cold war and legitimizing torture I nominate George W. Bush for the Torquemada Award.
Agreed. Worst person in my lifetime.
GWB is the clearly the indisputable winner. Putin "ain't got nuthin" on this "good ole boy"!
I'm sorry I don't know how
I'm sorry I don't know how to just vote for points but yea Bush for all of the reasons above. Or his mother and father for not having the abortion.
Erik Prince
For founding a mercenary army that is murdering civilians in Iraq with impunity, I nominate Erik Prince for the Torquemada Award.
Black Water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_USA#Controversy_and_criticism
Than Shwe
For being the head of military junta that as running an oppressive dictatorship in Burma, and keeping the rightful leader Aung San Suu Kyii under detention, I nominate Than Shwe for the Torquemada Award.
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Pope Benedict XVI
For exacerbating the HIV/AIDS epidemic through continuing ban on condoms, providing shelter to paedophile priests, justifying the persecution of Galileo, promoting religious intolerance and trying to take the world back to the dark ages, I nominate Pope Benedict XVI for the Torquemada Award.
Me
Me
For not doing everything in my power to steer humanity to a better tomorrow.
God
for creating free will, creating diseases like aids and generally being an asshole i nominate God
Please provide your original
Please provide your original sources and documentation for your assertion about Torquemada, "who tortured, killed and exiled thousands of people in God's name." Popular Protestant propoganda is no proof. Wikipedia is not the last word in Historical truth and "proof". In the unreliable Wikipedia entry about Torquemada referenced by you, the only reference to an observation about the actions of the Inquisition purportedly made by Pope Sixtus IV in 1482, predates the time when Torquemada became Inquisitor General in 1483.
Its easy to make assertions but much more difficult to provide original documentary rpoof and sources , and a person who makes assertions without proof is guilty of calumny and therefore the worst person on earth.
Wow, that's an original ax
Wow, that's an original ax to grind. You don't get many Inquisition apologists on the internet.
Mayhaps you should go hang out with the "Israel Can Do No Wrong!" crowd. Y'all will get along just famously.
George Bush
George Bush for being an idiot
George Bush
For reason posted above
Geoge H. W. Bush
For having offspring.
And for the assassination of
And for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the overthrow of the lawful government of the United States, and responsibility for all of the War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity of the resulting unlawful regime since 1963.
Wow! GWB killed JFK?!
I got a hard time with that one. I do not think that GWB has anything to do with JFK's death. He may be some sort of continuation of the movement, but he's not directly involved.
1963 has been a turn as well.
Now, 1913 is when taxes [supposedly] became legal. This is when problems started. This gave tremendous power to the Federal Government that does just whatever it pleases now. (Actually, sooner the congress authorized the governmental debt. That was also a mistake. Why should we be paying interests to some people through the government?!)
In that regard, Europe has just signed the same pact with the European Bank. Before each country was in control. Now the European bank is growing and within 50 years will be in total power.
Whether this is all bad. Do not ask me. I do not have the answer.
Finally, I agree with another person who mentioned the fact that this sounds a lot more political than it ought to be. And so far there was no mention of the "presidents" of countries like Cuba, Guatemala, Kenya, Vietnam, etc. To really know, you'd need to do a bit more research!!!
For destroying the economy
For destroying the economy of Zimbabwe, and for emptying the bread basket of Africa, I nominate Mugabe.
Mugabe again
Seconded.
Mugabe
Thirded
(For destroying poor peoples homes).
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (The minister of health in South Africa
For denying the AIDS crises and promoting beetroot as a cure, I nominate Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (The minister of health in South Africa).
Nancy Pelosi
For running on a platform of antiwar promises and backing down at any opportunity to do so. For being spineless in general and continuing to talk in platitudes while caving to the opposition whenever conflict occurs.
Seconded
Seconded
I nominate Dick Cheney.
I nominate Dick Cheney.
Alan Greenspan
For creating the housing bubble, indirectly causing the foreclosure of countless middle-class homes and causing a depression/recession in the US that has the potential to cause a global economic downturn.
I agree
I agree
Kim Jong Il
For starving millions of his people to death while igniting an arms race in the region, I nominate Kim Jong Il.
George W. Bush
For murdering a million civilians in Iraq, bankrupting the US economy, eroding civil liberties, shredding the constitution, stealing elections, undermining democracy, lying to the American people, destroying the nation's credibility, re-igniting the cold war and legitimizing torture I nominate George W. Bush for the Torquemada Award.
My Wife.
For causing incalculable amounts of human suffering to my person.
Benjamin Netenyahu... Alan
Benjamin Netenyahu...
Alan Hart, journalist and author of "Zionism, the real enemy of the Jews" has classed him as "the most dangerous man in the world" and I agree.
Funny how on 9/11 and 7/7 he was in the same cities and was seemingly warned about the impending bombs...Funny eh??
The ex italian PM has just said "Every government knows 9/11 was committed by Mossad and the American gov."
Check the He-devil out!
Atal Biharee Vajpayee
For attempting to destroy the secular nature of the Indian society, ignoring the plight of India's poor millions, large scale corruption, stirring ethnic and religious tensions culminating in genocide against Muslims, I nonimate Atal Biharee Vajpayee.
Ignorance is the real EVIL.
"genocide against Muslims"
Do you even know the meaning of genocide ?
1000 people died in "riot" in Gujarat (state in India), after Hindu pilgrims were burnt alive in train (Sabarmati Express) by Muslims.
Of 1000 people , ~400 Hindu died and ~600 died.
NOW, explain to me how you term this "Genocide" ?
In Nazi Germany 16,315,000 people died (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Nazi_Germany_and_occup...).
How / Why did you and many other ignorants compared death of ~1000 people were both Hindus and Muslims died (in riots) with calculated mass killing of over 16,315,000 people by Nazis.
I nominate people like you for your ignorance.
Gujarat Genocide - Read and learn
On Feb. 27th 2002, a train in Gujarat, India was attacked. In the name of that attack (though it is clear the attackers were not Muslims) the Hindu fundamentalists carried out a genocide of Muslims all over Gujarat, India. It had been pre-planned months earlier. Newspapers and cheap literature fanned the hatred of Muslims, whose only crime was to be born as part of the Muslim minority in India which has a Hindu majority. Though women were raped, heinously tortured and burnt, not one Hindi perpetrator has gone to prison for these crimes because the fundamentalist BJP party reigned supreme, both in Delhi and in Gujarat. India is now a "flawed democracy laced with religious fascism - as represented by the Hindutva, the Sangh Parivar and all its branches - the BJP, VHP, and RSS. - Garda Ghista
Continue Reading (Warning:Graphic images)
Capitalism
For murdering humanity
Hillary Clinton
For supporting Bush's genocidal war in Iraq, passing legislation harmful to civil liberties, clamoring for war against Iran, and being willing to do just about anything to snatch the US Presidency, I nominate Hillary Clinton.
Hillary
Excellent turn of phrase: "snatch the presidency". She is such a corporate whore!
Hmm.
Some of these seem to be a very loose definition of "human".
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to go with Bush as well.
For destroying the world image of America even worse than it already had been, going into a war by trickery, and staying in a war against his nations will, I nominate the president George W. Bush.
You guys...
For asking a moronic question that does nothing but bring people down -- try aspiring to greatness -- who has done the most to help the world? Do you have any good ideas?
I'll go for the Dalai Lama or Thich Nhat Hanh as true living greats... but there are many others.
Make a better choice -- trying to choose who is worse between Putin, Mugabe and Bush will inevitably look like political bullshit -- and its pointless since you aren't going to do anything about it... do you think you can affect Mugabe or Putin sitting in your living room eating bon bons?
Make a better choice -- go buy a homeless person a meal. Be great yourself
You think the politicians
You think the politicians are evil? Switch the TV to any entertainment channel...
For being her odious self, as symbol of all that is wrong with the western world, and for corrupting or attempting to corrupt the youth of the entire damn world, I nominate Paris Hilton for the Torquemada award.
Unless you want to keep her for the Marie Antoinette award?
Musharaf AKA Mush
For killing and torturing anyone standing against his dictatorship. For being an ignorant asshole who himself doesn't know the meaning of enlightened moderation. For imprisoning the Cheif Justice of Pakistan because he was bringing justice to masses. For undoing all the good works he had done, in order to control the will and mind of whole nation. For committing war crimes against his people just to be a good US bitch.
Hugo Chaves
I believe the reasons are clear.
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