KONY 2012

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This video is freaking dumb. Why the hell is this moron being such a jerk to the kid. Leave the poor kid alone.

I don't trust anyone who creates such propaganda. I don't care if the cause is legit. I'm not giving my money away to such a blatant media whore.

Let's talk about the issue and not just try to manipulate the emotions of people.

Anyways, I couldn't watch the whole video.

You guys are aware of recent news regarding Jason Russell the director of this documentary who was found running around naked and doing the you know what right? His family says he was just dehydrated and exhausted which I think is complete rubbish. There's a video of the incident and I have to say, I feel like such an idiot for falling for this video. Anyway here's a link to recent news if you didn't catch it.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/j ... 012-301467

Well intentioned or not, they are bringing something that has been going on for a long time to light.

The sad thing about it is, most people will never look further than what is put in front of their faces and therefore this campaign will never address the long term underlying issues that have created this situation in the first place.

Until you address the issues going on with natural resources in that region (oil, gas, gold, diamonds, cobalt, coltan, copper tin etc) none of this is going to stop and another person like Kony will appear to profit from smuggling, slavery, sex trafficking, child soldiers, kidnapping, arms dealing as well as things like natural resources which is what lights and fuels these conflicts in the first place. The fact that the Ugandan army has been implicated in these activities along with the Rwandans and have been smuggling natural resources out of the Congo only add to the complexity of the situation.

im glad the overall reaction of people seems to be one of scepticism. the whole thing was just paternalistically racist. it was all white mans burden, the US should intervene and help these black passive victims. worse than that it was the US army should intervene- they were advocating another iraq or afghanistan! whats funny about it was that kony isnt even in the country, neither are his 300 followers who were a bigger problem ages ago. why do outsiders suddenly care? it is also funny that oil was discovered there a few months back. when you talk about this to people and mention oil theyre all like oh oooiiiilll thats what its about. and george bush supports this. if that isnt a warning i dont know what is. ugandans dont react well to this. was having a conversation with a guy from there today because he saw me carrying a magazine with this article:
http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=c ... Itemid=386
we got into a conversation about it during which he noted the rection of ugandans to it was totally negative.