What's this Kony thing?

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

What do you guys make of this? I'm sure there really are kids going through hell on earth in Uganda, but a lot of things on this video don't sit right. It pushes emotional/propaganda buttons nonstop from the title on ("Invisible Children", FFS) and all the stuff about "you have the power to make the president do something" (yeah, right). I had a friend comment on facebook that Kony is "(no doubt) an MI6 installment"...where's Cain, dammit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

[LMNO]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/3/11/145213/275

Turns out this thing was heavily funded by bigoted rightwing christians.

[East Coast Hustle]

Joseph Kony has been around a LONG time, as has the LRA.

The assertion that he's an MI6 man is pretty much patently absurd.

He's also no longer in Uganda, as far as I know. He's been operating primarily in the DRC for the last decade or so.

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

Evangelical cash cow. It figures. 

[East Coast Hustle]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/3/11/145213/275

Turns out this thing was heavily funded by bigoted rightwing christians.

Oddly enough, so is most of the nominally christian horror in Uganda. The C Street group has their thumbs in alot of pies over there, and appear to be at least partly responsible for the whole "homosexuality is punishable by death" thing. If it's true that they're funding the anti-Kony campaign I'm guessing it's a false flag operation.

[Juana]

From a woman who has spent time in the region and interviewed people there: http://pomee.tumblr.com/post/18899601760/kony-2012-causing-more-harm-than-good

[Cain]

Jason Russell is a self-promoting narcissist who tells only half the story.

Invisible Children are pretty clear about their aims, which are to launch yet another US invasion, this time in Central Africa.  Such are the burdens of the civilized white man, and all that.

Because, what Central Africa really needs is yet another army romping around the landscape and getting bogged down in mass killings, religious uprisings and attempted resource control.  Obviously there is not enough of that going on already.   It's a supply and demand thing, you wouldn't understand. 

Sure, Kony's a monster.  But who isn't, in that part of Africa?  Everyone's hands are stained with blood of butchered villages and ethnically/religiously driven ethnic cleansing - getting the US involved would only mean more of the same.

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

From what the video says, the US is already over there. 

[Cain]

A couple of hundred troops, yes.  Advisors and trainers, though as always with special forces, the idea that they're teaching by example cannot be entirely ruled out.

However, Invisible Children want a full on military presence.  Among other things, that would almost certainly cause the Congo government to collapse.  Which would then restart the central African wars again, as everyone swooped in to seize the Congo's rich, but massively underdeveloped natural resources.

And as we all know, swooping is bad.

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

Might be looking for an excuse to swoop on Latin America, too http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/9/us_faces_challenge_to_drug_war

[Doktor Howl]

Just another war set up for oil companies, by pandering to American emotions/fears.

Let's have a war for the children.

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

Just another war set up for oil companies, by pandering to American emotions/fears.

Let's have a war for the children.

"Let's get Kony, he's like Osama Bin Laden only black."

[Kai]

Just another war set up for oil companies, by pandering to American emotions/fears.

Let's have a war for the children.

Makes me wonder if Wu Tang would support this.


More serious, I am getting sick of hearing about this. Central Africa is a region of horrible shit, from all sides. That USAdian intervention would not just make things worse is an idiotic proposition.

[Doktor Howl]

Just another war set up for oil companies, by pandering to American emotions/fears.

Let's have a war for the children.

Makes me wonder if Wu Tang would support this.

Wu Tang would go over there and sting them to death, but they're a little busy with their burgeoning careers.

More serious, I am getting sick of hearing about this. Central Africa is a region of horrible shit, from all sides. That USAdian intervention would not just make things worse is an idiotic proposition.

Or how about just the fact that we're broke, and we already have enough maimed soldiers from our last two little "humanitarian missions".

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Just another war set up for oil companies, by pandering to American emotions/fears.

Let's have a war for the children.

Makes me wonder if Wu Tang would support this.

Wu Tang would go over there and sting them to death, but they're a little busy with their burgeoning careers.

More serious, I am getting sick of hearing about this. Central Africa is a region of horrible shit, from all sides. That USAdian intervention would not just make things worse is an idiotic proposition.

Or how about just the fact that we're broke, and we already have enough maimed soldiers from our last two little "humanitarian missions".

This. Honestly I would like to see the US military shrunk to a mainly defensive force. Of course, that's never going to happen.