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I know everybody has a huge hard on for Joseph Kony right now because the fine people (with their questionable charity ethics) over at Invisible Children are rallying the troops with a new video, but I feel like there is something everyone needs to keep in mind. While he may be a bad dude and what he has done is nothing but deplorable, the numbers of the children the LRA abducted hover around ~65,000 in over 20 years.
Now I encourage you to look into Uganda's President who has abolished term limits, violently suppressed any opposition to him politically, and instigated the occupation of the DRC which resulted in around 6,000,000 deaths (almost 100 times worse in terms of body count than Kony has managed to rack up) albeit through more traditional means. All I'm saying is, maybe Kony isn't the worst guy in Uganda, who probably isn't even in Uganda anymore. Maybe I'm wrong but I doubt some perspective ever hurt. Now here's some numbers: "Compensation of Leaders | % of Compensation relative to amount of money made by IC | Title $88,241 | 0.99% | Ben Keesey - CEO $89,669 | 1.00% | Jason Russell - Co-Founder/Filmmaker $84,377 | 0.94% | Laren Poole - Co-Founder/Filmmaker Revenue Total Contributions: $10,334,060 Program Service Revenue: $3,423,351 Total Primary Revenue: $13,757,411 Other Revenue $7,769 TOTAL REVENUE: $13,765,180 Expenses Program Expenses: $7,163,384 Administrative Expenses: $1,444,570 Fundraising Expenses: $286,678 TOTAL FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES: $8,894,632 Payments to Affiliates $0 Excess (Or deficit) for the year: $4,870,548 Net Assets $6,584,811" As if that isn't bad enough, they've refused to co-operate with the Better Business Bureau, and their transparency rating is also fairly low on Charity Navigator. So, all this money and effort to stop a guy who has at the most 1,000 soldiers? The LRA is barely even operational anymore. There are probably gangs in your city bigger and more well armed. I feel like this movements efforts could be focused on someone that's actually relevant, like the aforementioned Yoweri Musevini. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about teaming up with the Ugandan government who very well could know where he is, however wouldn't tell us because as long as he is around they will receive aid and people will look the other way at the human rights violations they commit on a daily basis. That said, I hope he is detained and tried in front of the ICC, which by the way has failed to convict anyone in the 28 trials they have conducted since the courts inception. I guess it's nice people care about human rights violators all of a sudden but there are far worse ones operating on the planet right now and no on knows their names. Now everybody knows a has been in the terrorist worlds name. A warlord by the name of General Butt Naked killed more people in his tenure, he is a free man and no one gives two shits about him. Hell, because of Kony the Ugandan government killed more if it's own people by forcibly putting them in terrible refugee camps than the LRA killed themselves, and that's the government we are giving aid, weapons, and manpower to. In case you couldn't tell this church goer appealing, car commercial esque piece of emotional porn with kids running around putting up signs, a hip soundtrack, and giving an adorable little boy leading questions is really bugging me.
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This kind of stuff brings out the best and worst in people. Yeah, there are shit-tons of other, worse atrocities going on all over the world. But from some of the logic dispayed here, since we can't and don't address every single issue, we should pay attention to NONE of them, and remain sitting on our hands? It's ironic that the effort and energy to take this movement down is way more than it was to put it together. Stop and think about that for a second.
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Holy shit I have been waiting for some poor soul to post this so i can unleash on them like I have on facebook...
Joseph Kony has been at this since 1986. I do not understand why all of a sudden one MTV style video gets everyone all worked up. Posting this on facebook WILL NOT do anything than aggravate me and others like me by filling up my feed with useless shit. Its not that our government doesnt know about him because believe me they do. The people that need to know about shit like this most certainly do, its that he poses NO RISK to the United States. The United States has plenty of problems of their own with illegal immigration being at the top. Now with the current president in office that probably wont get solved but getting involved in something that does not threaten us 8000 miles away is not necessary. Where were all these armchair activists during Darfur... which... for the record... is still going on... their is still a mass genocide happening and nothing has been done with this. Killing this one man wont do anything. Being in the military, and to cover my ass this is strictly my own thought and no one elses, how would it look if we sent an army over to Uganda to fight an army composed mostly of these children? Its bad enough when we get bad information and blow up a few women and kids but think about it, if we send troops over to fight kids. We all know how those headlines are going to look. "US and Coalition forces brutally slaughtered hundreds innocent African children" and they will purposely omit the fact that these KIDS were shooting at US with their own weapons. And for anyone on here that says a child can not shoot a weapon but has never shot or handled a firearm themselves, please sit the fuck down and keep your mouth quiet. Thanks. All these stupid liberals and hippies going on about how we need to bring our troops back from Iraq and Afghanistan and now they say they want to send troops over to Uganda to fight an Army? We cant afford this shit. Does anyone that is all for this propoganda have any clue how much it costs to keep a soldier overseas? Probably not so again, sit down. The United States has bigger fish to fry with Iran threatening us with possible nuclear capabilities. If I was going to donate to any fund it would be to a US Aid group funding needy AMERICAN children in the UNITED STATES. Im going to cross train into video production and make a video that will target the hearts and emotions of hippies and liberals about the costs of modding a car. Then see if they will donate to my cause. I want a damn roll cage. |
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Silly me Murda-c... where is my zilvia.net etiquette. I edited just for you. I attempted to 5 space tab over as well but it didn't do it when I saved it. Hope its more legible for you. |
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not gonna make a difference. the money isnt going where you think it is.
lets take care of the visible kids within our own borders first. sorry, realism for me works better. |
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Murda-C 2012. you got my vote.
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I think the issue most people have with this Kony 2012 campaign is that it's focusing so much attention on someone who is so utterly irrelevant these days, especially when the ultimate goal is to bring him to justice by having him tried in front of a court that couldn't convict it's own asshole for shitting. There are much worse and much more active people this could all be focused on. Also, you think some people typing some shit out on the internet in opposition to Invisible Children takes more effort than it does to organize, run, or even donate to it? I have to work to even be able to donate to IC, I have to spend a few minutes writing up a retort. God forbid people do a little digging and inform other people how their money is being spent. I love how facts and perspective are being treated as the enemy by those who see an easy target to make themselves feel better about the world and get all swept up in the rhetoric.
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Well this Video has got alot of replies. I figured someone should post up an Ugandans take on these types of videos...Also i never bothered to watch KONY...seems like a re-hash of a re-hash....Give awareness and money to some random issue in africa etc. etc. etc....
Btw i have no idea how to embed.. Video: So Footage From Stop Joseph Kony Is 5-6 Years Ago!? Ugandan Blogger Responds To Kony 2012! "If You Are Showing Me As Voiceless And Helpless, You Have No Space To Tell My Story"
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Fixed that for you. Believe it or not, the US donates more money per capita and does more work then anyone else in the world for humanitarian causes and charities.
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These inflammatory types of claims are detrimental to the awareness campaign those opposing Invisible Children's tactics and motivations are now conducting.
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Yes this important to end but why are so many people jumping on it bandwagon instead a much larger, more focused and organized movement such as the OCCUPY MOVEMENT. There are matters effecting us all right now that can be halted by more support on our own issues rather than what is happening abroad. That will come when things are fixed here first.
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