KONY 2012

[onelogue]

Saw this all over facebook. Pretty incredible and I wanted to share it on here.
Video will explain all::

 

[badgerbuell]

Wow. Thanks for sharing that loque. I hope people take the time to watch the movie It is so genius.[up][up]

 

[72BlackonBlack]

I was watching this on facebook and then came on here, and this popped up...

Everyone definitely needs to watch this...

 

[badgerbuell]

^exactly. And hopefully not just watch it, and then forget about it. But do something!

 

[dave_xb12r]

When I started watching this, it bugged me. Too many hipsters and hippies wanting "world peace" I figured it was just going to be some long infomercial with a guilt trip towards donating money as the only form of call to action. But around 27 minutes in, there is a real call to action. One that I would even be a part of. In the end I was glad I watched it.

 

[onelogue]

^^^ same thing i thought! [up]

 

[DustyXB]

I watched the trailer... not too sure what its all about guess ill have to watch the full half hour video.

 

[oh9bolt]

Wow! Thanks for posting this!

KONY2012

 

[mart7]

[up] a must watch

 

[BuddhaBuell]

flipside

The people behind this campaign are MASSIVELY misguided. Or it's a CIA-sponsored psy-ops.

Take for example the fact that one of the 12 'policy makers' (US politicians) that they are targeting to help them ensure Joseph Kony is arrested is George 'Dubya' Bush. The puppet president who presided over the murder of 1.5 million Iraqi civilians. And we're all meant to believe that people like him are going to care about the plight of Ugandan children? Kony is Bush's ideological brother for god's sake.

Other than their complete ignorance of the fact that the US political elite is populated by the world's worst war criminals, the makers of this video are also massively ignorant of the truth about WHY Uganda, and many other African nations, are subjected to the brutal excesses of war lords and have been for so many decades.

To cut a very long and complex story short, people like Joseph Kony (who, by the way, is no longer a real threat to the people of Uganda) and so many other African tin-pot dictators are the product of long-term US (CIA), British, Israeli and French interference in African nations.

Joseph Kony leads the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). In 2010, the LRA crossed into Darfur in Sudan and since then have been enjoying the protection of the Sudanese military, and Sudan's notorious president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has been a longtime LRA patron. al-Bashir is accused by the International Criminal Court of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. It should come as no surprise then that the CIA has long-standing and close ties with al-Bashir and Sudanese intelligence services.

So there you have it. The principal financier and protector of the Joseph Kony and the LRA is a genocidal dictator who is supported by the US government via the CIA. That's just one degree of separation between the CIA and the LRA. Yet the 'Kony 2012' people believe they can lobby the US government to do something about Kony and the LRA!

The aim of the US (and other) governments has always been to destabilize African nations in order place into power any individual that would be amenable to the theft by US corporations of the resources of African nations. This destabilization process, which includes the massive and repeated provision of weapons to the war lords and thugs, inevitably leads to the killing and maiming of thousands of civilians. And it continues to this day.

Elliot Ross of the Africa is a country blog sums up the problem with 'Kony 2012':
"To ask people to climb down from the soaring heights of "Kony 2012", a place where they get to feel both sanctified and superior, and truly descend into the mire of history and confusion is simply too big a task. It would be boring and difficult and it would not be about Facebook or Angelina Jolie or coloured wristbands or me. When the euphoria evaporates and the Twittersphere has dried its tears (probably by the end of this week), all that remains will be yet another powerful myth of African degradation."

In short, forget about 'Kony 2012'. World peace starts at home, not in an African nation controlled by Western governments.If you really want to make this world a better place, let's start 'Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Obama etc., 2012'.
Let's make them famous for their massive war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, for the murder of up to 2 million Iraqi and Afghan civilians, and for the children who continue, to this day, to be blown to pieces by US soldiers and US 'drone' aircraft under the Imperial war of aggression known as the 'war on terror'.

 

[Burton]

^^ Was that copied and pasted? [smirk]

I have also heard plenty about the "flipside" and don't really know what to think. I think KONY 2012 was made with good intentions and is a great call to action. Whether it's still relevant, where the money actually goes, how the military and politics work...i don't know. And it's almost impossible to really trust any source these days.

 

[BikerTrash]

Blah, blah, blah. How about we worry about the problems we have at home.

 

[cpatt]

Blah, blah, blah. How about we worry about the problems we have at home.

yes completely agree.

i no that stuff is happening but i think the people who made this video are just trying to make $ off the sales of the shirts and there other "merch". just seams like some one thought this out and probily is making millions.

 

[BuddhaBuell]

Was that copied and pasted

yes it was, I figured I would do that instead of just putting a link to a article on a alternative news website, seems alot of peeps still drink the kool aid and think that the propaganda the talking heads spew is 'news'

Blah, blah, blah. How about we worry about the problems we have at home.

totally agree yet the problems we see overseas will sooner then later darken the shores of North America.

Big Brother is taking care of us all, weither we like it or not

[smirk]

 

[Oakes_86]

Thanks for sharing..hadn't heard of this [up]

 

[onelogue]

I'll support and group trying to stop a man killing thousands of children and getting away with it. People stop being nagative.
There will always be jealous people bitching when someone is getting so much attention. I say bring KONY down. Those that don't want to support are selfish bastards. Children are always worth fighting for.

 

[BikerTrash]

Kony's group is around 100, and is isn't even in Uganda anymore.

totally agree yet the problems we see overseas will sooner then later darken the shores of North America.

Most of America is armed. Bring it! Can't be any worse than what we are already experiencing with our own government.

 

[BuddhaBuell]

Bring it!

who do you think is bringing it?

our own government.

also I might add is the fact that most of the bad guys/dictatorships around the world (past and present) have been and some still are being supported by the USA/UN

[smirk]

 

[BuddhaBuell]

sorry RJ, not trying to be a drag on this thread but...

'The documentary is unprecedented, not for its educational attributes but for its capacity to use visual branding, merchandising and highly potent emotional communication to influence the viewer to support US military operations in resource rich Central Africa under the pretext of capturing the LRA’s commander, Joseph Kony. The Lord’s Resistance Army was originally formed in 1987 in northwestern Uganda by members of the Acholi ethnic group, who were historically exploited as forced laborers by the British colonialists and later relegated by the nation’s dominant ethic groups following independence. Together with the Holy Spirit Movement, the LRA represented the armed wing of a resistance faction aiming to overthrow the government of current Ugandan President and staunch US military ally, Yoweri Museveni.'

and this


'While KONY 2012 attempts to portray itself as an indigenous activist movement bent on bringing justice to African children, its parent organization is affiliated with the upper echelon of the US corporate media and a network of foundation-funded pro-war civil society groups with a long history of fomenting pro-US regime change under the banner of democratic institution building.'

not to mention this

'According to Invisible Children’s own LRA Crisis Tracker, not a single case of LRA activity has been reported in Uganda since 2006. The website records ninety eight deaths in the past year, with the vast majority taking place in the northeastern Bangadi region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a tri-border expanse sharing territory with the Central African republic and South Sudan. Since December 2009, the eastern Djemah region of CAR has seen occasional LRA activity; the western Tambura region of South Sudan has experienced even less. The LRA has been in operation for over two decades, and presently remains at an extremely weakened state, with approximately 400 soldiers. Due to the extreme instability in northern DRC after decades of rebel insurgencies and Rwandan/Ugandan military incursions into the nation, it remains highly unlikely that cases of violence in the region can be sufficiently investigated before concluding LRA involvement.'

oh, theres more..

here is the article its from

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/youth-movement-promotes-us-military.html#more

people need to stop drinking the Kool aid and figure out whats what on planet earth because it is obvious things are not what they seem..
[smirk]

 

[jerseymayhem]

Reminds me of the book, "A long way gone", about the same thing happening in Sierra Leone.

Seriously though, this stuff has been happening for years in so many different countries....what are these kids going to do, intervene in every conflict except the ones in their back yard...? Fix America first, then worry about the other countries. Arresting Joseph Kony will open the door to the next person to run Africa with an army of kids....its an endless cycle....

lol, wonder how many "kony dogs" will get arrested during this fu*&%ng debacle, littering,loitering, this is gonna be stupid.