Kony 2012

[keggerz]

 

 

Sick F'n bastard

Edited March 8, 2012 by keggerz

[tazinib1]

I just watched that as well. I hope the 100 American "advisers" we have going over there find that SNICKERS and string him up by the balls.

[Ziachild007]

Can someone give me the CLiffs Noted version? I'm lazy

[tazinib1]

Can someone give me the CLiffs Noted version? I'm lazy

 

 

ZIA!!!! Welcome back my friend!! Haven't seen you post in quite some time.

[CaP'N GRuNGe]

Great video and incredible community organizing. I wish one of our predator drones would take this piece of CHIPS AHOY! out.

[Ziachild007]

ZIA!!!! Welcome back my friend!! Haven't seen you post in quite some time.

 

 

Yeah man, just been busy with this thing called life. Lot of changes in the past year, had to take some down time. I am finding a little more time to get back in the swing of things now though.

[tazinib1]

Yeah man, just been busy with this thing called life. Lot of changes in the past year, had to take some down time. I am finding a little more time to get back in the swing of things now though.

 

 

Good to have ya back.

 

This guy, hee is a warlord/dictator in Africa (specifically the Uganda, Sudan region) who came to power shortly after the Rwandan genocide. He has been responsible for horrible atrocities in that part of the world for almost 20 years: child soldiers, child sex slaves, child mutilation, war, food shortages, the list goes on and on. As much as many may say things about social media, the fact that his actions have been to light because of it, makes it worth the while IMO.

[kpholmes]

I'm loving the KONY2012 movement for a lot of reasons... but mostly because I think it is going to set the tone for how our world will begin to handle important isues. While I love what these guys are doing and how they're doing it - financially, they don't necessarily check out like everyone would like.

 

If you're planning on sending money their way, just make sure you do your homework first.

[Azazello1313]

there is a real issue there, and I guess I am glad it is getting some attention by whatever means...but good lord that filmmaker guy strikes me as a hugh d00sh, and it's hard not to just sit back and scoff and mock all the dumb little clueless teenagers and their facebook crusade for "justice".

[SheikYerbuti]

No need for all this facebooking and filmmaking and getting the word out and bracelets and all that crap.

 

3 words: Seal Team Six.

 

Problem solved.

[Czarina]

My son came to me with this a couple days ago. It certainly has gotten the word out and Sheik, you know the Seal team idea is great, but given all the other tragedies around the world, a PR campaign is exactly what they need to move up the list of Issues To Deal With.

[Clubfoothead]

it's hard not to just sit back and scoff and mock all the dumb little clueless teenagers and their facebook crusade for "justice".

 

Not for me.

[matt770]

Not for me.

Ohhhhhhh look at Mr. Fancypants with his high-fallutin' "soul" and "conscience".

[SEC=UGA]

Those kids are kinda like trees in the rain forest... They're gonna die anyway, may as well use them while you can.

 

In other news a New Mexico man found the image of Jesus on his tortilla..

Edited March 8, 2012 by SEC=UGA

[Savage Beatings]

The guys is obviously a total piece of crap. I hope that his life ends soon, and that his death will actually be what is necessary to change what is happening to those children.

 

This also raises the issue of the proper role of the United States in the world... are we indeed an International Police Force? If we are not, should we be?

[Azazello1313]

Not for me.

 

you read kpholmes' link?

[lennykravitz2004]

are we indeed an International Police Force? If we are not, should we be?

 

 

...only when it suits the rest of the world... then it's "why are you standing on the sidelines, America? DO something!" Otherwise, we are Western Imperialists when we get involved in things like this.

[Clubfoothead]

you read kpholmes' link?

 

 

Yes.

[SheikYerbuti]

This also raises the issue of the proper role of the United States in the world... are we indeed an International Police Force? If we are not, should we be?

 

 

 

 

We'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock

We've done it before, so why all the shock?

We're the biggest and the toughest kids on the block

And we're the Cops of the World, boys

We're the Cops of the World

 

ETA: why the cheez-its can't you link youtube in the new format??

Edited March 9, 2012 by Big John
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[Ditkaless Wonders]

Those kids are kinda like trees in the rain forest... They're gonna die anyway, may as well use them while you can.

 

In other news a New Mexico man found the image of Jesus on his tortilla..

 

 

Flour or corn?

[SEC=UGA]

Flour or corn?

 

 

How can you be so insensitive.

[twiley]

Great to see the Invisible Children campaign finally getting the recognition it deserves. Did some grassroots regional campaigns for it a few years back.

[tazinib1]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/03/09/12-lessons-from-kony-2012-from-social-media-power-users/

 

An interesting article on the potential power of social media.

[Hugh 0ne]

I think we should start a grassroots campaign to get the old huddle forums back.

[SEC=UGA]

And now it's time for the rest of the story...

 

(CBS/AP) KAMPALA, Uganda - The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict.

The campaign by the advocacy group Invisible Children to make militia leader Joseph Kony a household name has received enormous attention on YouTube and other Internet sites this week.

But critics here said the video glosses over a complicated history that made it possible for Kony to rise to the notoriety he has today. They also lamented that the video does not inform viewers that Kony originally was waging war against Uganda's army, whose human rights record has been condemned as brutal by independent observers.

 

"There is no historical context. It's more like a fashion thing," said Timothy Kalyegira, a well-known social critic in Uganda who once published a newsletter called The Uganda Record.

 

Kony's Lord's Resistance Army began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government. Since being pushed out of Uganda several years ago, the LRA has terrorized villages in Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan. The group takes young women into sexual slavery and forces children to commit heinous attacks.

 

In the years when Kony's men roamed northern Uganda, the Ugandan government was often accused of failing to do enough to capture or kill Kony, with some government investigations showing that army officers profiteered from a protracted war.

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Olara Otunnu, a former U.N. diplomat who worked on children and armed conflict, has long accused the Ugandan government of committing genocide in northern Uganda as it pursued Kony.

Invisible Children said in a statement posted on its website that it does not defend any of the human rights abuses committed by the Ugandan government.

 

But it said: "The only feasible and proper way to stop Kony and protect the civilians he targets is to coordinate efforts with regional governments."

 

Ogenga Latigo, a politician from northern Uganda who previously led the opposition in Uganda's Parliament, said Invisible Children's perspective was too narrow to be allowed to define the popular understanding of an insurgency that displaced millions and in which thousands were killed or abducted.

 

"Theirs is a narrow perspective," he said of Invisible Children's work. "They just want the war to end so that children can go back home. That's all."

 

Appearing on "CBS This Morning," Jedidiah Jenkins, director of ideology for Invisible Children, said the organization has funded an "early warning" radio network, and that the majority of money they spent in Africa has gone to rehabilitate northern Uganda: "We rebuild schools that have been destroyed by the war, we give these kids mentors because they've lost family members to the war. We give formerly abducted women who have rebel babies, we give them jobs as seamstresses through our Mend program. We teach adults how to read.

 

"The truth is, if you want sustainable peace, if you don't want to see another warlord rise up, these people have to have a bright economic future. We want a holistic approach to really rehabilitate the region to create lasting peace."

 

Kony activist: Young hungry to voice their view

Latigo said that the Ugandan government, by failing to deploy enough soldiers to prevent the LRA from abducting children over the years, had been partly responsible for the rebel group's success as a recruiter of children.

 

"Our position was clear. We told the government, 'There are not enough soldiers,'" he said.

Invisible Children said that in its quest to garner wide support of a complicated issue, it tried to explain the conflict in an easily-understandable format. It said that many nuances of a 26-year conflict are admittedly lost or overlooked in a half-hour film.

Not everyone is critical of Invisible Children's campaign. Maria Burnett, a researcher on Uganda for Human Rights Watch, said the video has helped draw attention to an issue the rights group has long been working on.

 

"We hope it will be helpful," she said. "What it leads to remains to be seen, but the goal to bring pressure on key leaders, to protect civilians and to apprehend LRA leadership is important, absolutely."

 

Burnett added that while the LRA issue is important, Uganda's military also needs to be accountable and professional — "and there's still a long way to go in that regard."

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where Kony is wanted for war crimes, told The Associated Press this week he thinks the attention Invisible Children has raised is "incredible, exactly what we need."

 

Kony is now thought to be hiding in the Central African Republic, where he fled before an aerial assault on his forested base in Congo in 2008. Ugandan officials say the LRA — with some 200 core fighters at most — is weakened and is merely trying to survive.

Invisible Children's new campaign comes five months after President Barack Obama sent 100 U.S. forces to help regional governments eliminate Kony and his lieutenants. American troops are now stationed in Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Congo, and South Sudan, countries where Kony's men operate. Ugandan officials say that, with the help of U.S. troops, the hunt for LRA leaders has intensified in recent months.

 

Asked what the chances were of eliminating the LRA, Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa, told journalists last month: "I don't see failure."

For some Ugandans, the timing of Invisible Children's campaign is suspicious. Nicholas Sengoba, a political analyst, said there was something "sinister" about Invisible Children's campaign.

"The issue has been around for ages," he said. "We have to ask ourselves why suddenly there is this uproar. I believe that these people have other motives that they are not putting out in the open."