Topic: Here's what "we" are doing in Africa

[Pandora]

Kony 2012: Sentimentalism Dressed Up as Moral Conviction

Kony 2012 is the fastest spreading viral video in the history of the Internet.  It is a documentary, created by an organization based in San Diego, CA, called Invisible Children.  The purpose of both the video and the organization is to raise awareness of a murderous warlord in Africa, named Joseph Kony, who has, for the past three decades, been kidnapping children and, through brutal and barbaric means, turned them into soldiers and sex slaves for his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).  The video is suffused with emotional appeal for outrage, sympathy, guilt, and a noble urgency to help the pledge to capture Joseph Kony in 2012.  But, here are some other facts to consider before buying into the emotion and jumping onto this new trend wagon.

Factual accuracy.

As Michael Gerson, of the Washington Post, writes, “The crimes of the LRA, it is argued, have been exaggerated and the attention they are receiving is disproportionate.”

    The effort to capture or kill Kony is one of the least controversial, most thoroughly multilateral, objectives in the world. But that has not prevented a few people from trying to stir controversy.

    …Kony’s greatest crimes are in the past. He is no longer active in Uganda, where even his northern tribal allies turned against him. Attacks in eastern Congo and southern CAR are mainly raids for supplies instead of mass atrocities. But this is precisely because the LRA is under constant pressure. When Kony attempts to gather his forces – as he did in September in CAR – his Ugandan army pursuers are quickly on top of him. Obama has deployed more than 80 special operations forces in the region to help coordinate these operations.

    Kony’s crimes can’t be denied. But some critics of the anti-Kony campaign contend that the attention he is receiving is disproportionate.  Aren’t there more deaths, for example, in Syria?

Obama's running another scam on the American people.  Read the information under the following titles:

Propaganda

Misrepresents the current situation in Uganda.

Where do the $ Millions in donations go?

Humanitarian aid donations going to the 2012 election.  (AHA!! - P.)

Capturing a brutal warlord is a noble cause, but potential donors beware.  Here is an indication from an article by MTV of where your donation dollars may, also, end up…

    Jenkins said the group is considering participating in a voter-registration drive as the 2012 election approaches.

[charlesoakwood]

Is this another slush fund for Obama and his extended family?
There is a whole lot going on that's unsaid.  It appears LRA was
not a free agent but a state operative.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/africa/central-africa/182-the-lords-resistance-army-end-game.aspx

[Glock32]

Maybe the 80 special forces personnel are simply there to oversee the genital washing program we're paying for.

[charlesoakwood]

Source: Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD | NBC San Diego
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Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD

A co-founder for Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach on Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Jason Russell, 33,  was allegedly found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to the SDPD.

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"He was no problem for the police department however, during the evaluation we learned that we probably needed to take care of him," said an SDPD spokesperson. "We determined that medical treatment was a better course of action than arrest."
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Russell is one of the the founders responsible for the "Kony 2012" video that recently went viral. He is described on the organization's website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer."
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To what part of this does one add emphasis or is it all as emphatic as a 2x4?

[Alphabet Soup]

Police could not determine that he formed a criminal intent. There are no criminal charges pending because it looks like this is more of a medical situation, said an SDPD spokesperson.

Invisible Children's CEO Ben Keesey released a statement after 1:40 p.m. on Friday saying:

“Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better. The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason’s passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue. We will always love and support Jason, and we ask that you give his entire family privacy during this difficult time.”

Source: Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD | NBC San Diego

It's nice to see that we rationalize away the acts of degenerates. He must have been spanking it in from of a planned Abortion building

[charlesoakwood]

Update:

They're all maggots

Invisible Children, Russell's nonprofit group, tapped 12 influential policymakers and 20 celebrities with popular Twitter accounts, including Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie, to spread the video. Since then, the company owned by powerful producer Harvey Weinstein has contacted Russell to buy the film.

[IronDioPriest]

So I've been basically out of touch for a week, and I can't click links on my phone.

Am I understanding that someone has made a video decrying the supposed war crimes of someone who is not a threat, and used it as a fundraising vehicle to fraudulently funnel money to Obama? Or do I have that wrong?

[charlesoakwood]

It appears Kony is/was a bad guy; however, the atrocities they are raising
money for ceased to exist about two years ago.  Today he is more of a
man on the run.  So, true to the liberal meme, it's another scam.

ETA: If the addresses are presented whole, not imbedded, can you click them?

[IronDioPriest]

But is the scam being run to fund Obama or his reelection?

[charlesoakwood]

Maybe it's some cover for sending our military over there.
Hollywood's neck deep in it and now Weinstein, who's
Obama's Hollywood man, who knows?  It just stinks to
high heaven.

[Pandora]

But is the scam being run to fund Obama or his reelection?

From the link -

The Lantern points out,

    Charity Navigator, a watchdog group over similar charitable organizations, rates Invisible Children three stars out of four overall as a charity. …but only received two stars for accountability and transparency.

    In the fiscal year ending June 2011, Invisible Children garnered nearly $13.8 million in revenue. However, the group spent about $8.9 million in 2011 on expenses.

    Only about 32 percent of the group’s money goes toward charity. According to CharityWatch, another charity watchdog, donating 60 percent of your revenue to your cause is “satisfactory,” whereas donating 75 percent of your revenue is considered “highly efficient.”

    Where is the money you’re giving them going? If you indeed paid $40 for the now-sold-out action kit and bracelet, and assuming the group’s spending habits hold true, fewer than $13 of your money will be going toward the campaign to stop Kony in Uganda.

Humanitarian aid donations going to the 2012 election.

Capturing a brutal warlord is a noble cause, but potential donors beware.  Here is an indication from an article by MTV of where your donation dollars may, also, end up…

    Jenkins said the group is considering participating in a voter-registration drive as the 2012 election approaches.

The money quote is the last sentence.  The charity was/may not have been intended to raise funds for Obama's election, but according to Jenkins  --

Jedidiah Jenkins, a member of the nonprofit organization Invisible Children's inner circle, saw the group's 278th YouTube video uploaded and wasn't sure what to expect. Jenkins had written the script to the film, the 30-minute documentary "Kony 2012," about the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, and it had been a grind.

As of press time, Invisible Children has nearly 3 million likes on Facebook, and the question remains: What's next for this enormous group of engaged and active young people when so many of their peers are apathetic? Jenkins said the group is considering participating in a voter-registration drive as the 2012 election approaches. But he admitted that first he and his colleagues have to get caught up.

--- he's now got the organizing done via "social media" and he's looking to point it at something other than his video-cause.

That's my take from what was written.

[charlesoakwood]

TMZ has footage of "Kony 2012" honcho Jason Russell in the midst of his naked meltdown in San Diego ... pounding his fists in anger and screaming maniacally.

Horse Hockey

Jason Russell's wife says he was hospitalised because he couldn't handle global attention caused by viral video

[Libertas]

Vid here too.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-released-of-kony-2012-filmmakers-nude-tirade/

The new poster boy for bi-polar disorder?  The Left loves making hero's of douchbags, and nothing says "martyr" like a mental disorder!