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Published: 2012-03-12 13:06:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 2759; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 128
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I'd better word myself carefully, since I'm certainly pissing off a lot of people right now.I'm not a "fan" of mr. Kony. Obviously, if even half of what gets said about the guy is true, he should be stopped.
However, just because he's a brute, that doesn't mean everything else that's said about him is true. Invisible Children's propaganda campaign misrepresents the facts of situation: in order to imply that killing Kony would somehow "solve" things, they choose to ignore other parties that are also committing atrocities (like the sudanese and ugandan army for example). IMO, you can't kill your way to peace, and military intervention would have to do a lot more than "just" kill kony to fix anything.
I find the kony 2012 campaign to be one of the most despicable things created. It takes something which is a legitimate concern, child soldiers in war-ravaged africa, and turns it into a media hype.
With their shady business ethics, Invisible Children ruins the credibility of other (legitimate) charities.
If they really cared, they wouldn't resort to misinformation and appeals to emotion to get their message across. If they really cared, they'd focus on action instead of "raising awareness" (I.E. publicity and fame). Their motto is " Do More Than Just Watch", which I find disgustingly ironic, since that's exactly what they're doing and expecting you to do.
TL;DR, why Kony 2012 is bad:
1. The goal is nonsensical. Killing Kony won't end violence in Africa. It's a witchhunt, a scapegoat.
2. The information presented by IC is one-sided and factually in error.
3. The business model/ethics of IC cast doubt on other charities.
EDIT: [link]
A short video about how Ugandan people percieve the Kony 2012 campaign. Highly relevant.
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It's a goddamn shame. Originally- shudder- I though they were all about helping the kids than turning Kony into a black Hitler. Guess how I reacted to the video?
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man don't explain SHIT to the insipid and ignorant. just post the link and say KONY 2012 and they'll get the gist.
people need to read a BOOK instead of Twitter/Facebook shit and if you do make sure it's something with substance, not which celebrity is gay or getting a divorce or got arrested for drunk driving butt-naked on a unicycle. shit's not important to my daily life or anyone else's, it's all a distraction to make you either forget or not know about people like THIS.
good job on this, NOW you need to get crackin' on Phase 2 (not to be confused with the legendary graff writer):
PRINT THESE CHUMPIES ON SOME T-SHIRTS.
i gotta give this my patented "Thumbz Up Award" fly guy/girlie, love that political art. stencil art let alone graffiti in general started off politically.
even Felly Fel gave his seal of approval
keep up the good work!
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I totally agree with this, Kony 2012 is nothing but media hype
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THANK YOU for posting about how disgusting Invisible Children is... I was about to comment about it!
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I couldn't agree more with what you said! ... i wrote my self a lot of things about this subject, it seems like no one cares to see the naked true.. i don't get it with people!! but it was always like that and its such a pity that people will never wake up but instead some other people will always fight to open the eyes of the others! :/
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Try oil in Uganda... Oil in many other countries in Africa, this is just a way in...
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AFAIK the amount of oil in Uganda is, like, 100 days worth of USA's daily oil consumption. Whatever the case may be, I'm inclined to write that off as conspiracy theory.
To me,A shady charity with questionable ethics seems a lot more likely than a giant government conspiracy to steal oil, at this point.
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Funny how so many people still use the term 'conspiracy theory' Can't understand why to be honest... What matters is truth and information... Anyway this is an interesting set of maps that show some of Africa's resources:[link]
Remember a great many of these illegal invasions are about power and control too. As far as I am concerned far too many people have been killed and it is time to stop and get people to wake up. Using terminology like 'Conspiracy theories' only stops people doing any research...
What I have posted is to get others to look for themselves and not be hoodwinked in any way...
Thanks for looking. Please bear in mind my use of suggestive terminology. Personally I consider myself a truth seeker...
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And according to the map you provided, there is negligible oil in Uganda.
Look, I understand that people can have ulterior motive, I understand that sometimes even governments use misinformation to hide their true goals and motivations. I understand.
However, I believe in Occam's razor. I believe that if you have no way of ascertaining the truth, the best course of action is to find the "simplest answer required to answer the problem".
Sure, governments could have been secretly helping Invisible Children with their campaing in order to get sufficient support for intervention in africa, they could have been forging geological maps of the continent for decades, they might be secretly brewing a new war to serve whatever secret agenda NWO types like to serve. Sure, all that is theoretically possible. But is it plausible?
My point is, that you don't need a massive government LIE to explain Kony 2012. All you need is a greedy charity organisation.
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Well said my friend.
The countries who robbed Africa the most are shouting: Catch the thieve!...
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Yeah, certainly. The whole campaign stinks of "white man's burden".
Even IF they manage to eliminate kony, it'll be a hollow victory since that alone won't solve anything. But of course, by making Kony the "source of all evil in Africa" and then stopping him, we can pretend to have achieved something, when really we've just shot one warlord in a continent full of warlords and violence.
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I'm poking fun at the Kony meme and trying to spread awareness about the need to be skeptical; even of charities apparently.
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You might like my rant: [link]
If one unambiguously good thing were to come out of this whole viral outburst, I'd hope it was this. :V
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I actually read that some time before making this. D:
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Sure you can kill your way into peace. Just kill everyone. Everyone.
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That would work I guess, I just don't see this getting a lot of international support. D:
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Fact of the matter is Kony's been believed to be dead for about six years.
At this point, he isn't a threat, in the slightest. People should be more worried about the US troops that recently killed a large family of Afghan civilians for absolutely no reason.
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Meh, I'd say that if the USA thinks he's important enough to take note of, he's probably not already dead. That just seems a bit too paranoid (why spread rumors about someone who is dead, when you can take your pick from any number of warlords?).
Still, it does seem that he isn't nearly as big a threat as 10-15 years ago, so I also don't see why this is suddenly important.
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What needs to be doneis someone needs to disarm him, and arrest him. Done. Get a kid to shoot him in the leg/foot.
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And how would that solve anything?
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Then he'd be incapacitated, and the african military would finally arrest him while he's incapable.
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I think that's an incredibly oversimplified and naive way of looking at it.
Armed conflict, Murder, rape, abductions, child soldiers, etc. are all symptoms of the underlying problem: lack of government oversight/authority.
Capping one criminal won't magically solve all that.
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I'm a very simple person, at times.
And I never said it would. But, we might as well go through a list of criminals, starting with the worst one.
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And what's your basis for saying he's the worst one? IC's videos about him?
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I didn't say he was the worst. But whoever the worst is, even if it is him, should be taken down first.
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Orly. Did you read my description at all?
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On an English note, "infantry" actually means "child soldier" from the ancient practice of putting the youngest troops in the first line of a formation...so yeah...
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Did not know that, but it makes sense.
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Wow. That's fucking crazy.
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They were still of age to fight back then, not actual children, mind you. Sorta like calling the new guy "kid" even if he's in his 20s. The idea was that you would wear your opponents out with your new troops first, who would then fall back and have the next set of more experienced troops fight, who would in turn fall back and let the veterans finish things off, though things didn't always get to the back rows before one side broke. Worked really well for the Romans up until Cannae...
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OIC.
Yeah, infantry are usually just basic soldiers or field-engineers. They haven't been in long enough to have a serious specialist job, and back then the diversity in the solider types was even smaller. You had footmen, calvary, officers, and siege, and maybe a handful of subtypes.
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people are also saying that kony died years ago
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That seems a bit too paranoid-conspiracy to be true. However, I've read that he moved his army out of uganda years ago, and I've also heard he isn't as active as he was 10 yrs or so ago.
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The fucktard who made the video pretty much admits it's propaganda when he said "the next 27 minutes are an experiment, but it won't work if you don't pay attention."
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I don't remember them ever saying they were going to kill him. They just want to capture him and arrest him and hold a trial.
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And how are they going to capture him alive when he's being defended to the death by the very kids everyone wants to save?
To me a covert assassination seems like a much more realistic approach when your first concern is the wellbeing of the children (which it should be). I don't see how there's can be much doubt about whether or not Kony is guilty, so while I'm generally in favour of putting war criminals on trial, i'm not convinced it should always be the highest priority.
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I've seen the video campaign, and it's been a while but were they suggesting just killing him or taking him to trial for crimes against humanity? I honestly don't remember. The latter would obviously make more sense and be more in keeping with the idea of spreading peace and justice. Though I suppose the real focus should not be Kony, but rehabilitating the children affected by his actions.
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It really wouldn't matter to me whether they capture him or assassinate him. Invisible Children isn't very specific about the best course of action, but since Kony is being defended by heavily armed fanatical children, I don't see how they could possibly capture the bastard alive without causing a lot more infant casualties.
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Well, the idea that simply removing one person will solve a deeply-entrenched problem is kind of naive. If they simply assassinate him, I'm sure there's someone willing to take his place. You would have to dismantle the entire system of child soldiers and that takes more than taking out one person.
I hope this campaign works, but the problem is that the shock value does wear off. I'll admit I was affected by it when I first saw it, but the more Kony crap I see (not calling your work crap, btw), the more inured I become to it and the less it affects me. I hope Invisible Children realizes that
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I agree with both points, which is why I don't see IC's methods or goals as realistic or helpful. If they do manage to get Kony, they'd still need to stop his army from continuing on under a new commander, they'd still have to enforce peace in the resulting power vacuum, they'd still have to stop many others like him and they'd pretty much need a huge peacekeeping operation to take care of all that. Expecting the solution to be as simpl as ending Kony is naive, but that seems to be the main goal of Kony 2012.
And yeah, the fact that the campaign is viral, and therefore all over the place, is a good way to make people sick and tired of the whole thing. I'd prefer it if people were against Kony 2012 for intellectual reasons, but if the filmmakers' appeal to emotion is backfiring, I don't mind that either.
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They are trying to find him to capture him and arrest him for his crimes.
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