Invisible Children

[The Apocalypse]

I've been seeing hearing about this all day via Tumblr and Twitter and I had to share it on here.

Joseph Kony is the worst living criminal. He abducts children and hands them guns to kill other people, even their parents. He uses the girls as sex slaves. The children he abducted are called the Lord’s Resistance Army, also known as, The LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and uses them as kid soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is practically invisible to the whole world. That’s why we’re making him famous. Let us make him famous to stop his crimes.

This group, Invisible Children, have taken it upon themselves to try and stop this monster of a human, Joseph Kony. This video will explain it all. It's about a half hour long but it's worth watching.

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I've never heard of this guy until today but a person like this needs to be brought to justice. Hopefully whoever watches this can share this on their Facebook, Twitter, etc.

[Hobgoblin]

There is a petition for this at the White House web site.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...paign=shorturl

[The Apocalypse]

Thanks.

[Hobgoblin]

My pleasure.

[Schlosser85]

That's horrible.

[Yurka]

Good for Obama, sending troops there. I would honestly consider that amongst his top achievements.
Shared the vid on twitter.

[WildcatNC]

We sure this guy isn't on the US payroll?

We don't give a **** about Africa because there is no financial gain there. Sad but how our policy works.

This is the kind of stuff I would have NO problem with my tax dollars going to **** someone up for.

I'm not convinced our actions are not token though, we shall see.

[Lone]

I'm gonna watch that vid.

I recently watched Machine Gun Preacher and it was about the LRA and this Kony *******.

[Chewy]

I'm glad this is spreading the way it is

Heartbreaking stuff

[Lunar_Wolf]

Thought this thread was going to be about ghosts, spirits and haunting's.

[Incrediblejeff]

Yeah this has basically taken over my Tumblr Dash.

[Midnyte_Sun]

There was a nice documentary about him that I saw many years ago on PBS.

[obin_gam]

whoaw, never heard of this, looks as fascinating as it does horrifying.

[Paroxysm]

Powerful stuff.

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

This has been all over my Twitter timeline since yesterday. Finally watched the whole thing last night, pretty sad. Thinking of getting myself a bracelet.

[Paroxysm]

Now the skeptics are rolling out in full force, Reddit and 4Chan seem to be leading the charge...figures. I thinks it's good to question things but to just say "screw this" and go back to posting for up votes and lols is lame.

If people are suspicious of IC that's fine but they should wake up to what's going on.

[Dr. Evil]

This guy (Kony) is probably in Zimbabwe, meaning that he will probably never be turned over to international officials.

[Paroxysm]

I don't think he'd go quietly if they did locate him. He'll probably bite the bullet.

[Dr. Evil]

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

I don't think he'd go quietly if they did locate him. He'll probably bite the bullet.

The West would not be able to send military forces into Zimbabwe to capture him (if he's there) as the Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe would accuse the West of trying to re-colonize Zimbabwe. They gave former Ethiopian Dictator Mengistu exile with no plans of giving him up.

However, if Kony is in Mozambique, Tanzania or South Africa, it would be easier to try to use force to hunt him down.

[CashforStash]

While I think it's nice to show people care and want change, I think this invisible children campaign is a joke.

Not going to troll, but Kony has been sick for many years, and hasn't done anything significant recently. What he did was sickening and disgusting, and he should be punished, but there are other people in this world who desserve more attention.

Also, Invisble Children is a campaign who charged 10 dollars for a braclet which has a two dollar production price. This campaign is brilliant in terms of getting bucks off of a younger generation and audience and making them feel rebellious. 225 dollars for a kit? Are you kidding me.

This is my opinion, I'm sure most of you will disagree though. Another side note is that if I read correct, Invisible Children made over 9 million in donations one year, and only 3 million of those dollars where actually sent to Uganda.

[DBryan]

This is my opinion, I'm sure most of you will disagree though. Another side note is that if I read correct, Invisible Children made over 9 million in donations one year, and only 3 million of those dollars where actually sent to Uganda.

Does anyone know if this is true?

Does anyone know where the rest of the money went?

[DBryan]

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. As a registered not-for-profit, its finances are public. Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614. Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal for an issue which arguably needs action and aid, not awareness, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they lack an external audit committee. But it goes way deeper than that.

[CashforStash]

Originally Posted by DBryan

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

Thank you!

More information.

"1) The Ugandan Government is a dictatorship with Yoweri Museveni as the president since 1986. Among many of its human rights violations the regime tortures prisons, oppresses other political parties and the press and also wishes to introduce a bill that would have 'convicted homosexuals' put to death.

2) In the civil war in which Yoweri Museveni gained power child soldiers were used by his army (National Resistance Army) which is now the army of Uganda but under a different name. (http://www.teachkidspeace.org/doc315.php)

3) The Ugandan army, or rather its high ranking officers have being using 'ghost soldiers' (soldiers who are no longer on the pay-roll) to siphon off funds, making the war even more profitable for them than usual, giving them a vested interest in its continuation. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3514473.stm)

4) (kinda the same point again) War is profitable, especially for large arms economies such as the U.S. and the UK. 'U.S. Military adviser support' may as well say 'we want to US and its arms manufactures /dealers to sell the Ugandan Government **** tons more weapons'.

I'm sure there's many more points that could be made, and this is still a really basic explanation that barely goes into any detail, but even a single one of these points is enough to be critical of the campaign and its support of the Ugandan army. If the campaign really wants to be truly supportive of human rights it needs to recognise that Kony is not the only war criminal, all warmongering is a crime against humanity"

Also this link shows all the visible problems with the organization.
http://ilto.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-visible-problem-with-invisible-children/"

Also. If your going to go after Kony, be prepared to take down the hundreds of soldiers of kids he has at his disposal. There are bigger war lords out there who need more attention then Kony. Invisble Children is an organization that banks off of the rebellious actions of a social generation. 10 dollars for a bracelet that cost's 2 dollars to make is a complete scam. The organization has faults.

But on the brightside, it's good to see that people care about this action, there are just more important issues to look out for that desserve more action. Kony basically has surrendered a couple of years ago, and the country Uganda is slowly being rebuilt. This campaign is clearly banking off of teens.

Also!!! A website last night was shut down because it had free versions of the Kony posters to print off, the owner of Kony 2012/Invisible children has the website shut down. I wonder why?

ALSO MORE.

http://thisishangingrockcomics.tumbl...we-got-trouble

[Paroxysm]

So what are these more important issues? Why aren't we addressing them?

[DBryan]

The more I'm reading on this, the more it seems like a scam.

Most of the Invisible Children's donations go to admin, salaries, lobbyists, expenses (like making the films).