Stop Joseph Kony 2012

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

There were STOP KONY posters in my bus stop. Looked around, didn't see any rabbits but I know they're a problem here.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

The truth about Kony 2012
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=odnBGH6Bh88[/yt]

 

[warriorsfan]

Spread it around.

Um, no. Fucking bullshit.

Care to elaborate?

 

[Lonemagpie]

Oh there's some psycho guy in charge of an African/Asian country somewhere who kills his people and treats them really badly?


Gosh. This just in, the sky is blue!

If anyone really wanted the West to jump in, they should just make a YouTube video showing oil being found in Uganda.

Oh, and

http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/?fb_ref=newcontenthole

 

[iguana_tonante]

Never heard of it. What is this about? Yet another crazy libertarian conspiracy theory?

So, no, nothing to do with US politics or Libertarianism.

My mistake. Since it was WeAreTheBorg posting the video, it seemed a likely assumption.

 

[warriorsfan]

According to Rush Limbaugh, the Lord's Resistance Army is just an innocent group of Christians being unfairly targeted by the Obama Administration because Obama loves Muslims and wants to exterminate Christian people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army#In_popular_culture

On October 14, 2011, Rush Limbaugh, a political commentator, originally questioned the U.S. move against the LRA on the grounds that "Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them." "So that’s a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda." Later, Limbaugh stated that he would research the group as he was made aware of accusations of their atrocities.[69] Contrary to this assertion, however, he later allowed the show's written transcript to be posted on his website under the title "Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians".

 

[Jetfire]

Spread it around.

Um, no. Fucking bullshit.

Care to elaborate?

Youtube vid by a delusionally wannabe auteur isn't going to do it.

This. And seeing people hijack random YT comments "spreading" the message is annoying.

I kinda did. I meaning the way people are "spreading" the message is bullshit...they are just spamming and being annoying...It may bring awareness but it is an annoying way to go about it.

 

[WeAreTheBorg]

I admit I was caught up in the moment after watching the movie, as were many others. I became aware of the criticisms the next day and felt silly. But then, I felt just as silly for simply accepting the criticisms as easily as I had bought into the movie.

A critical analysis of the backlash
https://www.facebook.com/notes/john...-children-viewed-critically/10150614970287933

Official response
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html

Cliffs:

Yes they spend 1/3 on the ground in Uganda because that's 1/3 of their mission, the rest is making movies and travelling around showing them for free to spread awareness.

2/4 charity rating due to a temporary technicality

They don't support or defend the Ugandan or Sudan army as claimed

Yes Kony's power is diminished but this is about setting a precedent about holding war criminals accountable

 

[Tora Ziyal]

If anyone still wants more to read on the topic, here's a well-balanced commentary by author Peter Eichstaedt.

 

[Yevetha]

Kony is not a bigshot anymore, he has a few hundred man max, but there are US geopolitical intrests in Uganda.

 

[Lonemagpie]

http://www.acholitimes.com/index.ph...ell-ceo-of-invisible-children-inc-on-kony2012

One of the Ugandans that IC claims to want to protect shows where they've got it all wrong