Joseph Kony

Telling people about this video will keep the government aware and keep the troops there. They haven't caught him yet and
they fear the government will pull the troops if people forget about this monster. We have to keep him "visible". :)
 
sweepsadv said:
Telling people about this video will keep the government aware and keep the troops there. They haven't caught him yet and
they fear the government will pull the troops if people forget about this monster. We have to keep him "visible". :)
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I was just pointing out how torn people are, and how war weary.

Once a face is put to things, Americans *usually* get it. :)
 
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293073/kony-2012-tragedy-and-wasted-charity-patrick-brennan

Over the past week, as Nina Shea noted yesterday, a video called “Kony 2012” has garnered tens of millions of views, and generated startling levels of awareness about what seems like a relatively obscure topic, a humanitarian crisis in Central Africa. Unfortunately, millions of Americans have been confused or deceived by the video.


...Joseph Kony is a murderous madman and has committed humanitarian atrocities on a shocking scale, but he doesn’t head a rebel group with a political grievance (and never really did), but instead heads a dwindling criminal faction of several hundred armed guerillas. In the early 2000s, his crimes did in fact cause the internal displacement of more than 2 million Ugandans, but thanks to the efforts of the Ugandan military, he has since been forced out of the country, into the rural areas at the intersection of the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This fact is mentioned about halfway through the video, in passing, as if it is of little significance — but most viewers have come away convinced that the problem we should be worried about is in Uganda. It’s not (though the Ugandan military is still involved).

More important, the humanitarian crisis hasn’t simply shifted from Uganda to elsewhere; in Central Africa, Kony is still killing people, and he should be stopped, but he is inflicting nowhere near the suffering he once caused. In the past year, according to Invisible Children’s own website, the LRA has been responsible for 98 civilian deaths and 477 abductions.

...None of this means we shouldn’t care about humanitarian crises, or shouldn’t support the efforts to kill Kony. But this is a particularly shameful instance of wasted charity.
 
bourkebabe said:
Saw the same things about this video that you posted, amy, on HLN news today..
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I am an optimistic pessimist, with a HUGE dash of skeptic, so my radar went off when I saw this was being driven by the younger generation.

Knowing politicians have been telling these kids/young adults that they are smarter/more discerning than their elders, and the wisdom we've acquired is to be ignored/discounted makes things like this possible.

The only upside I see? People who get burned tend to be more cautious in the future - and with all that is at stake this year, that matters!
 
Yikes:

While the KONY 2012 video was being hyped on many media outlets in the USA fact checkers, notably Polly Curtis of the the UK Guardian, were noticing discrepancies between the video and the real facts of the Charles Kony situation in Uganda. And one of the big problems is that the video is outdated and Kony with his Lord's Resistance Army are no longer even in Uganda.:

1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for six years;

2) The LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gla...-trumps-fact-many-media-reports#ixzz1pWtVtoDw


Now that more facts have become known, widespread skepticism about the KONY 2012 video has set in which perhaps led to the public meltdown of the documentary's producer, Jason Russell.
 
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