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Ethereal
Ryan my criticism comes from many hours of research,
which I think many of the kids that just decided to share that video didn't do.
Kony 2012 was a shining example of how to play on peoples emotions and they did an excellent job of doing so.
Unfortunately they left out so much vital information about what has really been happening in Uganda that it made my head spin.
For instance Kony gets painted as this vicious warlord, yet they leave out the part about the atrocities Uganda's own president did.
President Museveni's regime was guilty of recruiting/kidnapping children to fight in the army years before the LRA followed suit and did the same.
Under Museveni's command an estimated 6 million people were killed in Africa. You can only imagine how many of them were children.
The LRA was formed to combat Musevini. Now I'm not saying Kony's tactics were right, but the sad reality of this whole situation is that either way,
these kids would be recruited or kidnapped to fight whether it be with Museveni's regime or against him.
There are other things that pissed me off a bit about the video.
For instance the whole bit with the kid when he shows him a picture of Kony.
It was like the director was implying: "Hey my 6 year old knows it's right to go get the boogeyman, so I should have no problem convincing everyone else"
I'd like to think that our youth, (which was the obvious majority target) are a bit smarter than a 6 year old.
Might just be a personal thing, but I found it a bit insulting.
I didn't like the answer they gave about why they haven't allowed the BBB to audit them..I found that to be complete bullshit.
If they have nothing to hide then their financials should be made transparent,
and I don't mean simply allowing people to look at some pie graphs someone from their own organization made up.
Also a charity organization should just stick to being that. If they want to sell stuff to raise money for the kids,
That's fine I have no problem with that, but lobbying to get congressional approval to send more of our military to a place where they don't belong..
well that's where I draw the line.If people don't think that there is a bigger agenda here..then they really,really need to wake up.
This whole thing reeks of the type of Psy-op propaganda that America is notorious for.
There are warlords out there worse than Kony, if it were really about going after a war criminal,
Then why not go after this sick bastard in OP..who by the way admitted to eating children, cutting out kids hearts and feeding it to other children,
raping, pillaging, leaving a trail of dead bodies estimated to 30,000. In Kony's last interview he said he didn't do any of those things,
he actually said the things that were said about him were propaganda, and you never know maybe alot of it is.
Museveni's regime has proven to be absolutely tyrannical, it's not like spreading propaganda against a group that opposes him is beyond the realms of possibility.
An estimated 2.5 billion barrels of oil found in Uganda recently. I just find it awfully suspect that out of the clear blue,
someone wants to go after this Kony guy after he's been out of Uganda for 6 years, and his army has dwindled to pretty much squat.
If you ask me, this whole campaign is to get public approval to occupy Uganda under the auspices of catching the bad guy and saving the children.
Sorry man, this feels way too much like going off to catch the boogeymen of the Middle East, but I think we all know what the real agenda was there.
We don't need to be in another country. Our guys are going fucking crazy doing multiple tours with out getting to see their kids grow up,
It's costing us trillions of dollars, and it's destroying our foreign affairs. The real criminal in this whole ordeal is their president.
If it wasn't for him, there would be no LRA.