Invisible Children

[danoyse]

Btw, did anyone else hear that Rush Limbaugh defended this "army" during his show a few months back - again, without knowing any of the facts?

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane...sistance-army/

Rush Limbaugh Defended Joseph Kony And Lord’s Resistance Army

While Rush Limbaugh may be in the news for his sexism, his utter ignorance is becoming evident as a new video about the horrors of the Lord’s Resistance Army and their leader Joseph Koney is now going viral on the internet. Koney has been charged with kidnapping children as young as 10 and forcing them to fight in his army.

Limbaugh had criticized President Barack Obama for committing troops to fight Joseph Kony and the LRA and defended the group without having any knowledge of what they really did, seemingly just to find a new reason to attack Obama.

Here is what Limbaugh said about the Lord’s Resistance Army In October

Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That’s what the lingo means, “to help regional forces remove from the battlefield,” meaning capture or kill.

So that’s a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and — (interruption) no, I’m not kidding. Jacob Tapper just reported it. Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians? Wouldn’t you say that we are? I mean the Coptic Christians are being wiped out, but it wasn’t just Obama that supported that. The conservative intelligentsia thought it was an outbreak of democracy. Now they’ve done a 180 on that, but they forgot that they supported it in the first place. Now they’re criticizing it.

"Lord’s Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people.” Now, again Lord’s Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord’s Resistance Army, what they’re trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology.” Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield."


After defending the LRA and criticizing Obama for taking them on, Limbaugh received some information about the LRA that made him rethink his statement.

"Is that right? The Lord’s Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff? Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well, we just found out about this today. We’re gonna do, of course, our due diligence research on it. But nevertheless we got a hundred troops being sent over there to fight these guys — and they claim to be Christians."

So now we can add defending mass murderers to Limbaugh’s impressive resume of offending African Americans, immigrants, women and the disabled. Kony and the LRA are being made into international bad guys by the new documentary “Invisible Children” which has gone viral thanks to an impressive marketing campaign.

Colbert had a field day with that when it first aired.

[SuperFerret]

Limbaugh's a blowhard. Who cares what he has to say?

[The Question]

Originally Posted by chamber-music

I know this sounds silly and unrealistic but I'm surprised these dictators and warlords don't get snipered or poisoned or bobytrap their car with explosives or something. Plenty of ways to kill someone without using a army and in the past people were killed with those methods easily.

That Ukrainian presidential candidate was poisioned a few years ago.

The primary issue, from what I understand, is tracking him down. He's a guerrilla fighter hiding out in incredibly dense, undeveloped jungle that he knows very well. Finding him and capturing/killing him requires jungle patrols, training in jungle-based combat and tracking, tracking equipment, training in the use of that equipment, working in enough shifts with enough guys so no one gets burnt out, flying supplies and advisors to Uganda from the united states, and the normal costs of feeding and clothing a bunch of soldiers. That racks up a heart budget.

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I wouldn't say I hope Limbaugh keels over while he's live on his show, but I definitely wouldn't give a crap if he did. Total scumbag.

[Paroxysm]

Ouch! Infraction! lol

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvqFi...&lf=plpp_video

That video sums up my feelings rather well on this whole situation.

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Originally Posted by Paroxysm

Ouch! Infraction! lol

So speaking of "invisible children" you're going on ignore. lol

[Paroxysm]

Originally Posted by JJJ's Ulcer

So speaking of "invisible children" you're going on ignore. lol

Get over yourself JJ, I was talking about the post that was deleted, not your comment.

[Spidey-Bat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...over-film.html

But Kony and his diminishing troops, many of them kidnapped child soldiers, fled northern Uganda six years ago and are now spread across the jungles of neighbouring countries.

“What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’ activities.

“There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with.”

[Paroxysm]

Me and my girlfriend decided to donate to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative instead of Tri. We found it through givewell.org

[Dragon_316ca]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...142970255.html

So much for that campaign.

[craigdbfan]

"He was detained in Pacific Beach Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to San Diego Police Department."

[DBryan]

A musical that IC did some years ago

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

[craigdbfan]

A bunch of high horse riding "hipster brahs" who like guilt tripping people into a scam.

Nothing to see here folks. This type of scum is a common breed that can be found in any college near you.

[roach]

Originally Posted by craigdbfan

"He was detained in Pacific Beach Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to San Diego Police Department."

he was just trying to get his invisible children out to the public

[Midnyte_Sun]

What The...

Jason Russell outside naked, has mental breakdown

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/jason-.../#.T2Qf3xHOUsI

[roach]

he was just trying to 'cover the night'

[The Apocalypse]

Invisible Children, Visible Penis.

[Harry_Lime02]

Originally Posted by craigdbfan

A bunch of high horse riding "hipster brahs" who like guilt tripping people into a scam.

Nothing to see here folks. This type of scum is a common breed that can be found in any college near you.

I don't know if I'd call it a scam, but it's definitely misguided. Joseph Kony has been around for 10 years and is virtually powerless now, where was all this support when it was actually relevant? I'm not saying he shouldn't be brought to justice, but it's not a priority. Money well spent on this issue is going to the rehabilitation of former child soldiers, not training the Uganda military.

Unfortunately most aid organizations are like this. They spend more money getting people to care than getting money where it is needed. It doesn't help that 90% of these bandwagoners think that changing their Facebook status makes them a Social activist.

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Originally Posted by Harry_Lime02

I don't know if I'd call it a scam, but it's definitely misguided. Joseph Kony has been around for 10 years and is virtually powerless now, where was all this support when it was actually relevant? I'm not saying he shouldn't be brought to justice, but it's not a priority. Money well spent on this issue is going to the rehabilitation of former child soldiers, not training the Uganda military.

Unfortunately most aid organizations are like this. They spend more money getting people to care than getting money where it is needed. It doesn't help that 90% of these bandwagoners think that changing their Facebook status makes them a Social activist.

Actually, Kony's been around more than 25 years. But everything else you said is spot on. I'd also add that while abducting children is a terrible problem, more die from Malaria, starvation and "nodding disease" in a month than Kony could kill in a decade.

I also knew this guy was a fruitcake when I saw how manic and self-congratulatory he was in that mini-documentary. This public masturbation fiasco only proves how much of a looney-tune he really was. I bet those people who gave big bucks to Invisible Children or even posted about it on their FB feed are feeling kinda dumb and used right now.

[Lencho01]

What a way for this to come to an end, I guess.

[Speedball]

Originally Posted by The Apocalypse

Invisible Children, Visible Penis.

Yeah, this guy is clearly off his rocker. His "wife" claims that this was brought on because of all the criticism that IC and the Kony vids are getting. I'm thinking he was on an acid trip bought with all the money earned from his "charity".

[eddy]

Originally Posted by DBryan

A musical that IC did some years ago

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

I stopped it at 4:04. wtf was that

[DBryan]

That's why it drives me slightly nuts when you point out that a large amount of donations go towards film production, people defend IC by saying they are raising awareness.

THAT musical is nothing more than an expensive ego trip.

[roach]

its funny because we have those same problems here in America and no one is making a video about that
we have child prostitution here
we have child soldiers aka gangs killing each other in the streets