KONY 2012

[iforgotmypassword]

Watch it, best 30 minutes you'll spend. PLEASE DON'T MAKE THIS A POLITICAL THREAD!!!!!!

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37119711?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=d13030" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/37119711">KONY 2012</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/invisible">INVISIBLE CHILDREN</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

[CBF1]

I bet George Bush had something to do with this.

[Ronnie Tsunami]

I'm watching it as we speak, 18.30 in.

Really well made.

[ColoradoDarin]

TL;DW

[BroncoBen]

I watched the Video this afternoon.. I encourage everyone to watch it, very well done.

[Los Broncos]

I watched it, very touching.

Some day they might get him, but it doesn't seem the US will get to involved in combat just to advise.

[Conklin]

I encourage everyone to read about the makers of this video before sending them any donations

[pricejj]

1. The LRA is one "gang" amongst thousands of gangs across the world that employ adult and child soldiers to kill innocent civilians.

2. Similar groups exist throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, although Kony may be the most notorious.

2. Innocent civilians continue to die in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, etc. directly due to U.S. military actions.

3. Since 1991, the U.S. military and the U.N. have funded the Ethiopian military to destabilize and kill innocent Somalis in order that a legitimate Islamic government cannot gain power. Somalia is 99% muslim.

4. In 1994, Rwandan Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis over an estimated 100 days.

5. In 2008, after a disputed election, rival tribes Kikuyu and Luhya descended into civil war, resulting in slaughter with machetes throughout streets of Nairobi, Kenya.

6. From the 1950's to the present day, a civil war in Sudan has claimed more than 2 million lives.

6. La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang has millions of members throughout Latin America, the U.S., and Canada. Many members are child soldiers. Rival drug gang killings in the Mexico/U.S. border towns such as Juarez and Tijuana have skyrocketed in recent years (3,600 murders in Juarez in 2010, 2,000 murders in 2011).

7. Race wars in L.A. between Hispanics in Blacks have claimed several thousand lives over the last decade.

[Shananahan]

PLEASE DON'T MAKE THIS A POLITICAL THREAD!!!!!
Pretty good laugh here.

[Taco John]

http://i.imgur.com/K3mgn.jpg

[canadianbroncosfan]

NFL Play60 could learn a thing or two from this guy about getting kids active.

[Kid A]

Well intentioned...but to what end? Most experts on the region agree this 1) makes little logical sense 2) could be more harmful than good.

http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/

And as far as what they do with that money:

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-PnDZmngAhM/Sa_KBGNySiI/AAAAAAAAAJY/uBOfiAysghs/s1600-h/IMG_2941.JPG). Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Let’s not get our lines crossed: The Lord’s Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda’s decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.

The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it’s likely he will soon be caught, if he isn’t already dead. But killing Kony won’t fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn’t end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is “a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.”

Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa’s woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.

Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the region’s medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.

[Chris]

Can I just comment on how much I hate the voice of the guy in the video... just had to get that out... sorry.

[Flex Gunmetal]

^trolled by the US govt.

[phisig150]

NFL Play60 could learn a thing or two from this guy about getting kids active.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. Almost spit out my coffee at work, laughing. Wow best thing on here inb a long time.

[Flex Gunmetal]

NFL Play60 could learn a thing or two from this guy about getting kids active.

http://i.imgur.com/Ai0hM.gif

[ColoradoDarin]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q227/dhaus5650/gifs/Strutting-zebra_thumb.gif

[Kaylore]

makes little logical sense 2)

Is there an illogical sense?

[alkemical]

Is there an illogical sense?

Yes, i have mastered it.

[pricejj]

It took the U.S. 9 years, 100,000 soldiers, and trillions of dollars to kill Bin Laden, to no avail.

How long do you think it would take to find and kill this guy, in Sub-Saharan Africa, so one of his generals or rival war lords can pick up where he left off?

It would also be awesome for U.S. foreign relations to show U.S. soldiers gunning down African children.

Was wondering if I could get any more footage of the priveledged white guy and his son taking donations to get rich, acting like a he's going to save Africa (as if that's never been done).

[Pontius Pirate]

I encourage you to NOT watch Kony 2012 and instead watch this very touching documentary about Rapeman.

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[USAFBronco]

http://memecreator.net/creepy-wonka/showimage.php/2777/You-re-tweet-and-post-on-FB-about-Kony-2012%3F-Tell-me-more-about-how-you've-always-cared-about-Ugandan-children..jpg

[DomCasual]

Since the thread I just started (http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?p=3522302#post3522302) on this inexplicably got moved to WRP, I figured I would bump this thread - you know, the one that has stayed in the main forum (Offseason Mode in effect - off topics welcomed) for over a week.

Apparently, it was okay to start a thread about Kony 2012 in the main forum; but it's not okay to start a thread about Kony 2012 in the main forum. It's all very complicated.

Anyway, I found a bit of ironic humor in this story:

This is the guy that narrates the video. I wonder if that Kony guy is close enough to an Internet connection to have heard about this.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/invisible-children-co-founder-detained-committing-a-lewd-act-drunk-public-report-article-1.1041075?localLinksEnabled=false

A co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the viral hit “Kony 2012,” was detained by San Diego police Thursday night for allegedly masturbating and being drunk in public, NBC San Diego reported.

Police said they responded to calls of a man screaming and running through traffic “in his underwear,” according to NBC San Diego.

He also was allegedly vandalizing cars, San Diego police told the television station.

Russell is the narrator of a controversial video released last Monday by the organization, which documents the atrocities of Joseph Kony, a Ugandan warlord who kidnapped thousands of children to use as soldiers in his Lord’s Resistance Army, which terrorized the country in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/invisible-children-co-founder-detained-committing-a-lewd-act-drunk-public-report-article-1.1041075#ixzz1pJz9Y2FS

(More at link)

[DomCasual]

Oh brother.

Really, I never cause trouble with moderators on this site. Literally - not one time. But come on. If you're going to do something, either A) make it consistent; or B) give some explanation.

So, some political threads stay in the main forum (e.g. The 2012 election thread). Some don't. Some do, but only for a certain amount of time (e.g. this thread). Some can stay there indefinitely. Some are okay there, if they are disguised as comedy (the South Park TSA thread). Some stay if they are some half-witted conspiracy thread (I could find at least a dozen).

Clearly, this one stayed until I pissed of some moderator.

Whatever. I'm over it.

[Blart]

Invisible Children: more evangelicals being crazy.

http://www.vice.com/read/kony-baloney

[Pontius Pirate]

I'd be really embarrassed if I was iforgotmypassword