Warlord’s Grisly Child-Killings, Rapes & Abductions Go Viral Thanks to New ‘Invisible Children’ Video
- Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:06am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Editor’s note: See the update at the bottom, which includes some criticism of the situation in Uganda.
SAN DIEGO (The Blaze/AP) — American filmmakers who reported on wartime atrocities in Africa for a 50-minute work called “Invisible Children” drew more attention than they imagined when their project was released in 2005. They soon founded a nonprofit organization to campaign against the brutality.
(Related: Is there more to the Invisible Children story than meets the eye?)
The group’s new 29-minute video is gaining even more attention, thanks to social media. The work released Monday is part of an effort called KONY 2012 that targets the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony, a bush fighter wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
Uganda, Invisible Children and (hash)stopkony were among the top 10 trending terms on Twitter among both the worldwide and U.S. audience on Wednesday night, ranking higher than New iPad or Peyton Manning. Twitter’s top trends more commonly include celebrities than fugitive militants.
Even NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers was moved by the movie and tweeted about it:
He’s not the only one. Anonymous released a message yesterday showing support for the movement:
Ben Keesey, Invisible Children’s 28-year-old chief executive officer, said the viral success shows their message resonates and that viewers feel empowered to force change. It was released on the website, http://www.kony2012.com .
“The core message is just to show that there are few times where problems are black and white. There’s lots of complicated stuff in the world, but Joseph Kony and what he’s doing is black and white,” Keesey said Wednesday.
Kony’s Ugandan rebel group is blamed for tens of thousands of mutilations and killings over the last 26 years. The militia abducts children, forcing them to serve as soldiers or sex slaves, and even to kill their parents or each other to survive.
Invisible Children occupies a small office tower in San Diego, where its three founders were raised. With a staff of about 40, aided by interns, the group trains people for six-week stints at its headquarters to spread the word of LRA atrocities.
Groups of five “roadies” fan out to college campuses and churches throughout the United States and Canada, sleeping at homes of strangers. One member of each group is from Africa and shares life experiences.
Tragedy struck in 2010 when an American volunteer was among 74 people killed by explosions that tore through crowds watching the World Cup final in Uganda. Nate Henn was hit by shrapnel from one of the blasts.
Last year, the group began installing high frequency radios in Africa’s remotest jungle to help track militia attacks in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan. People in areas without phones can report attacks on the radios to people who put them on a website called the LRA Crisis Tracker.
Keesey joined Invisible Children in 2005 after graduating from University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in applied mathematics, management and accounting.
“We thought it would be a short project, maybe a year or two, and now it’s turned into eight or nine years,” he said. “The purpose of this campaign is that 2012 is the year this crazy violence can stop.”
UPDATE:
It’s worth mentioning that as the video above has reached viral status, some have come forward to offer criticism. It’s only fair that we include some.
The London Telegraph has aggregated some of that criticism, much of which discusses the fact Joseph Kony is likely not even in Uganda right now (and hasn’t been for six years) and that the number of child soldiers cited is a cumulative number over about 10 years, and not a current number. Some are also wondering why the group is pressuring the U.S. and not the Ugandan government.
You can read that information here.
UPDATE II:
We’ve published a separate follow-up story looking into the criticism. You can read that here.
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gmoss
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:02amWatching this it seemed very self centered and self serving. After seeing how they spend “donations” I know it is. Just another lib pulling at heartstrings to get money for themselves.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:16amI read every news item every day and never heard of Kony. Daughter came home from school yesterday with instructions from her teachers to urge her parents to call our congressmen and senators to stop kony. Glenn is right, this is a set up
Report Post »tallguyjgg
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:33amI say dont send the group money at all, but do contact your representatives in congress to say this guy needs to be taken out. If ever there was a need for the US to go in and stop someone, this is it. I support their cause to bring him to justice, I just wont give money to do so when it will needs to be a military campaign that will be needed to remove him or capture him.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:35amThere is no fixing Africa. Africa has to fix itself. If we kill that guy another one will pop up. Until the African people decide enough is enough this will keep happening.
Great to know our troops are there trying to them safe when our southern border is under attack.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:51amThis is lame! The only force for good in the world is on the ropes and more Kony’s will emerge because of it. Kids today will wear this guys image on their chests believing he is a good guy or why else would anyone put KONY-2012 up.
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:52am@Martinez Wow. With that attitude you are right, it can’t be fixed. What do you base this assumption on? What you hear in the news? Your own unwillingness to try to change anything? We don’t need troops on our borders, we need REAL immigration reform and specifically trained individuals (i.e. Border Patrol) with authority on the border. Isolationism cloaked in the phrase ‘non-interventionalism.’
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:40amGosh what a shock…the country that gave us Idi Amin is still butchering it’s people. Look….Africa is a lost continent. No amount of money or intervention will change that continent. Look at Somalia. We went in with security forces and food and got machetes and RPGs as a thank you while their warlords stole the food for themselves. Nigeria has oil..and Islamist elements in Nigeria routinely bomb pipelines. Africans are the only people that can help Africans, right now I see no indication they want to do anything of the sort.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:22pmIf Anonymous has anything to do with it that’s enough reason to stay away.
Report Post »Awakening Day
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:26pmwith all the funding and money putting in to propagandizing world government you could simply hire a group of contractors like Black-water or other mercenaries to do the job. No sovereignty lost. This sets a precedence for world government which is not good.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 3:16pmishka4me, the fact that “you read the news every day and never heard of kony” isn’t anything to brag about… i’d say you should find another news source. he’s been a most wanted murderous warlord for 3 decades.
for anyone that thinks this is a “liberal” cause, its supported by tons of republicans. even if invisible children turns out to be some shady org, it has nothing to do with the fact that kony should be hunter down and hung.
the blazes criticism is lame “he isn’t even in uganda anymore”… so what, you just give up? you don’t think our armed forces could find him and cut his throat in a week? I do.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 3:21pmWho Cares?
If the story is real, let African nations do something about it. Clinton should call the UN and report this so UN police can stop it. I do not want to send one white boy soldier to die at the hands of some Moslem just so Obama can pick up a few votes. He who cares let them go.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 3:22pm“Watching this it seemed very self centered and self serving. ”
gosh, you are a shallow, ignorant person.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 3:26pmFunny, but this website has somehow left out some interesting details. Joseph Kony’s group, The Lord’s Resistance Army, is a Christian group. And who are they slaughtering? Muslims. I simply can’t imagine how this website overlooked that little fact! Imagine that, Christians slaughtering Muslims.
One fan of Joseph Kony is Rush Limbaugh. No joke. Here’s Rush defending these Christian murderers and bashing Obama for going after him:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203070006
I know it’s Media Matters, but listen to Limbaugh himself show his loyalty to Kony.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:00pmLOL….You didn’t just offer a link to Media Matters did you JZS? You idiot.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:41pmAVENGPERP, when people like you and Rush hate our President so much that you take sides with a savage mass murderer rather than support actions by the United States to end the mass murder, it makes me afraid that you are ethically challenged. PERP, I think there is a good person inside of you and I can’t believe you would support the slaughter of innocent people with machetes and support those like Rush who cheer them on. But friend, I think it’s time for a gut check and perhaps a some prayer.
Report Post »tfmkeller
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:54amIs this a “War of the Worlds” moment….Who controls the video, the audio and the script……
Report Post »Why should the US deal with this??? Europe is great for asking two questions…..Who made the USA the worlds Policeman……Why doesn’t the USA do something…….Who is Kony enemies?…..Funny how often these people speak English!!! Now with that said, This Guy may not be an angel….but if your going to do something, check all the Facts…..What has Invisible Children done for these kids…..I remember this situation back in the 90′s. Twenty years and we get a YouTube Video!!!!
theninthplanet
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:30amhttp://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/
Report Post »Vasbyt
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:07amQuestions needing answers:
Who gets all the money that is collected from this campaign?
How is money going to stop this?
If this has been going on for 25 years, why hasn’t the government of Uganda done anything?
What hasn’t the surrounding countries done anything to kill him?
Why do those who are throwing there money at this cause not get behind a cause to get rid of the bloods/crips/ms13 etc here in America
The local gangs in America also target youg children for their own purposes
If the Clinton admin didn’t push to dismantle Executive Outcomes, they could have been hired to take this guy out many years ago as they did for other countries
What is to stop this Koni guy from useing these kids to print t-shirts and make bumper stickers to sell for him to profit from?
This is a typical liberal feel good campaign to make money. One liberal American gives $10 and tells friend ” hey I feel god that I gave, did you? Liberal B says “oh I have to give too because I feel bad now that I havn’t and gives $10-$15 and so on and so on. Easy way to make money in America.
This helps the Ugandan gov to say ” well Americans will help take care of OUR problem and we don’t have to”. Kind of like those who like handouts “ LIBERALS”
How are American dollars going to stop this madman??????? please explain that to me.
Report Post »Summerafternoon65
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:28amI assume this IC group is legit… and a worth organization??? I was a little worried about the viral video and group after my daughter’s high school promoted this assembly at her high school. The video is well made but I am always concern when they use children to promote it in a scare tactic propaganda and don’t really agree with the delivery… I hope Glenn will give us more information on this group and if it is a worthwhile to support…
Report Post »TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:38amIt’s easy to be deeply moved by this video, but I would like to be more informed before I jump on the band wagon…That is something to think about SummerAfternoon
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:55am@Thebeautyoftruth
Here’s the breakdown of their expenses, and the explanation of their goals. Read away:
Report Post »http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html
Rajabear1
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:57amAgreed. 2 of my kids 15 and 19) called me at work yesterday because of this. Both asked if I would research because their noses smelled trouble. Daughter said the viral world had exploded over night with Kony 2012. When I started digging into this my alarms went off too. Many of the advertisers dealt with bongs, pot and crap like that, Also they coincide Kony 2012 with the date 4/20, many might be aware that this is the date for marijuana I still don’t understand that whole thing, none the less, that is the date). It appears as though the art work is done by the same guy that did the infamous obama posters. It also seems as though many of the supporters are none other than many of the same ones backing OWS/99%ers. It‘s like they are using a ’worthy’ cause to pull in youth. It is VERY targeted. I told my kids to stay the hell away for it and not to purchase any merchandise supporting it until we knew much more.
Report Post »TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:18am@Rajabear1 Wow…that’s some enlightening research…it’s good to pull back the curtain and see who is pulling the strings on this….Maybe someone has disected the movements that took place in Egypt & Middle East with FB as the connector and possibly tweaked it and re-thought it to fit a larger agenda? It sounds like the “young man who started this” and his young son got the attention of someone with funding and resources to put it all together…maybe… I still want to see Kony brought to justice regardless….don’t you?
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:53amJustice? Absolutely. I find nowadays, I seem to be trying to find a balance between supporting a good cause without supporting something darker at the same time. It seems as though the NWO/progressive tentacles have reached out and touched and twisted causes that have started out for good. Just ask yourself, why in the world was this an explosion overnight geared to youth only? Kony 2012 for this spring? My kids have known about disappearing children for several years, but my daughter’s alarm bells went off immediately because this was presented so differently. Why was this not done to coincide with press releases to bring in adults awareness at the same time? Could it be that a good cause has been co-opted? Sadly, I think it could be…it breaks my heart that we must be so leery of so many things.
Report Post »BaconSlinger
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:44amMy nephew called me searching for my opinion also. When I reviewed the video at approx. 16 minutes in I see politicians (on both sides of the aisle) pushing for Americas help and red flags started going up. Again at approx. 18:30min a copy of BHO signature on what I am assuming was an Executive Order authorizing special forces action I soon realized this was (IMHO) campaign propaganda. Later in the evening I approached my 20 year old niece about this and she told me how evasive the Invisible Children group, that came to her college in 2009, was at fielding their questions and then she directed me to the Visible Children page where I could follow the money. In my limited knowledge of this issue (24hrs.) I can only come up with one question. Why did this make headlines on the same day that the Obama college tapes start to surface?
Report Post »@RAJABEAR1 as a reformed, once dedicated, pot-smoker I can tell you their are 2 schools of thought on 4-20 that I am aware of. 1) Afternoon college classes that dismiss at 4pm gave students time to get back to the dorm to smoke at 4:20pm. 2) Celebration of the death of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia 4/20/20??.
NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:43pmThe following is a copy of my posts on the other story about this on the Blaze:
Report Post »Snow, et al. There is even more to this story. More money to follow. I remembered something I read last fall regarding those special forces troops Obama sent to Africa; whose purpose was to assist various African military units to hunt down and arrest Kony. At that time I also found who requested those troops—- Leo Gerard, President of the United Steel Workers.
He has direct ties with Vale Mining Co. Guess who has mining interests in Africa? Vale and they want to expand into (guess where?). Central Africa and plan to invest $12 billion by 2016 which includes railroad investments/construction through central Africa. African mining info obtained from mining weekly.com.
So, in light of the info from the blaze and what I read its possible the “interests” in Africa want more US military involvement; and are using a “sympathetic crisis” involving innocents “we” didn’t want to help until now for their own monetary gain.
Damocleaurelius
Thanks for fact-checking me and following up with your own opinion of the facts. Everyone should look into Leo Gerard for themselves. He used his presidential influence(Obama) to put pressure on the Brazilian government to get the president of Vale removed and intall a more union sympathetic company president. He was also the union bully who strongarmed Bush to increase tarrifs on imported steel. Our new favorite socialist bully!
JackSprat
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:28amEvil incarnate, this is the way a satan. His greatest trick is making people believe he does not exist!
Report Post »TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:47amI was just comtemplating what dark force would wage such a war on human children? If there is no such think as good and evil…then how do we as a race explain it? As much as I would like to say that evil does not exist…as I have grown older and purveyed the scope of human history…either there is good and evil..and evil seems to be taking the helm worldwide on some days…or if absolute truth doesn’t exist…then that means Kony is? What explains his unthinkable actions towards the innocent?
Report Post »fobama
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:27amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFn-3gY-fQ PLEASE WATCH!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:18am.
Nothing has changed in Africa for the last 3000 years. Black Africans still raping and killing each other and selling Child Slaves to the highest bidder…….
And Whitey is the Bad Guy! Yeah Right……..
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:28am“Nothing has changed in Africa for the last 3000 years.”
Spank, we already know you think blacks are inferior. Just yesterday you said:
“I always thought the Devil was Red. But Black is his color. I stand corrected……..
Why does it seem every thing Black is a Hazard to either your Religion, Health or your Wallet?”
(Topic for those who don’t believe it: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cardinal-dolan-obama-admin-lectured-bishops-to-listen-to-enlightened-voices-on-contraceptive-mandate/)
Give it a rest, man. Go preach your racism elsewhere. Try to learn some history as well. Plenty has happened in the African continent in the past 3000 years. Christianity spread there. Islam spread there. Whites colonized and then left. Countries rose, fought, and morphed.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:22am.
You don’t know what I think. But I think You and those like you have been trained well by the Democrats. To where everything you hear & see is Racist.
So if I had said;
“I always thought the Devil was Red. But Obama is his color. I stand corrected……..
Why does it seem everything Obama is a Hazard to either your Religion, Health or your Wallet?”
What’s the difference? You’d still call me a Racist. You PC White Guilt Obama Voting Morons are what’s wrong with this country now. Oh you can’t say that, Oh you can’t do that……
What I said is true there’s not some White guy over there Raping and Killing Children forcing then to Kill their parents and be Sex Slaves now is there? No!!!! It’s some Crazy Black African Run Amock.
But some how in your twisted little world I’m the Bad Guy…….
I‘m sorry you don’t know the difference……..
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:37am@Spank
“What’s the difference? You’d still call me a Racist. You PC White Guilt Obama Voting Morons are what’s wrong with this country now. Oh you can’t say that, Oh you can’t do that…”
Except you didn’t. You didn’t mention Obama at all; you specifically made it about race. Even more specifically, that blacks bring you down. That’s… kind of the definition of racism. Granted, usually people don’t make it so darn easy…
“But some how in your twisted little world I’m the Bad Guy…”
There’s a world of difference between saying “Kony is a terrible man who needs to be taken down” and saying “black Africans raping and enslaving other blacks. It‘s what they’ve always done. Blacks attack everything.” You’re nowhere as bad as Kony, but I don‘t think there’s much doubt that you’re a racist. I‘m not sure why you’re so offended; you seemed to embrace these views yesterday…
Report Post »TheSitRep
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:01amOf course this is sad but you are right, in fact if we took all of the worlds wealth and resources and plowed them into Africa, nothing would change.
The fact is that this is it’s nature and it is a product of African people.
It is evident that anywhere you go on Earth where there is a black population you will see all of the statistics correlate.
Examples are, Helsinki ,Reykjavik Philadelphia, Detroit, Port-au-Prince, Monrovia.
Check the crime stats as it relates to race in those countries
There is no more precise predictor of murder, rape, crime, IQ, poverty, infant mortality etc than racial make up.
And no, it is not the legacy of slavery or discrimination by non-Africans, the statistics are universal be it Canada, U.S., Uganda, Kenya
This is another example of Africans living in their natural state
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSjyYRTDVM
The evidence is overwhelming and to not understand this you have to spend over time fooling yourself.
I am not a racist so much as an objectivist.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:12am.
@Locked
I Just figured out what the problem is….LOL….You Hate it when I’m Right………
Don‘t Worry you’ll get used to it………
Vote SpankDaMonkey 2012 you’ll feel better………
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:31am@Spank
“I Just figured out what the problem is….LOL….You Hate it when I’m Right…”
Your kind of thinking had its time. Then the 13th amendment was passed. Come to the present, Spank, come to the present…
Report Post »fobama
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:14amSam childers… Read about his story, an what he does, to help these guys, the machine gun preacher!!
Report Post »Quackersmacker
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:13amWhat am I missing here? Are you people actually watching the whole video? I’m sure that Koni is a very bad guy, however this movement is about establishing international law above the constitution. Do you really want your children to sign up for a Facebook revolution? Not working out so well in India and Egypt.
Watch the end of the video where the real message is packaged, and no, you don’t have to play it backwards to get it! “Turn the system upside down” “stop at nothing.”
Register and wear an identification bracelet with your very own personalized number.
Wow how can I get me one of those!
There is a reason that particular color of red is used. This is recruiting for the ramped up occupy wall street movement. Hello, you guys awake?
The problem is that they have positioned themselves as so cool that when a guy like me points out what this is really about, I even sound crazy to myself.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:53amI have to agree with you. We will not and should not use our governmental power to police the world. It doesn’t matter how many of our citizens feel that this is a good idea.
However, I am one of those people called Marine and I would rather live in a world where mass murders do not exist. I would not be against having individual citizens travel to Uganda and work with the local gov’t to hunt down and bring Kony to justice. That said, what this liberal idiot is doing is lobbying in congress to send other men and fathers in harms way to further his cause. If he were really serious about finding Kony, then he would be in Uganda with a gun and his own army of men. If he ever gets that serious about this, then he can buy me a plane ticket and I’ll bring arms and ammunition for 9 men and maybe even some others who would help. But this should be a voluntary effort in cooperation with Uganda’s government and not the forced actions of a foreign state.
Report Post »TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:12amWow…just read your comment QS and it’s worth considering…I was pretty taken by the video and it made me want to take action…I was trying to get a sense of what was driving the whole movement…it sounds SO GOOD. And who wouldn’t want to save innocent children? I am torn. You bring up some good points, but sometimes it seems that we can get wrapped up in seeing the boogie man or the “Illuminati” everywhere we look and behind everything we see happening. I want to believe that technology can bring ‘we the people’ of the world together for a common good of humanity. The basic question is…how do we define good and evil in a world that largely pretends it does not exist? In all it‘s years of existence the Human Race doesn’t seem to be able to save itself…from itself. It sure seems like all of us, not just the Invisible Children need “saving”.
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:17amDude. Everything isn’t about OWS. I think we can agree that spending a couple million to rid the area of this man would be better spent that the BILLIONS we are sinking into a country where the military and police FREQUENTLY turn on us while we try to train them. Talk about a fight between good and evil…
Report Post »the68
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:42amI agree with SGTB (funny how those who enlist are of a similar mindset; thanks for your service SGTB, I’m pooleeing into the Corps this month). This is not the job of our federal gov’t. If private citizens are concerned about what’s going on in Africa, they should be organizing and training themselves, strapping on weapons and hunting this guy down themselves, not running some sort of propaganda machine that really requires no sacrifice whatsoever on the part of the participant. I would certainly support such an organized effort. Heck, I can’t afford the plane ticket and food/ammo/supplies but if an organization is willing to give me those I’ll volunteer myself and my AK, 12 gauge and pistol. I will also volunteer to teach the only thing that will truly bring peace to the area, and that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Kony’s death, though justifiable, would bring only a temporary peace to a region that has been the antithesis of peace for decades.
Report Post »fobama
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:12amI urge those looking to help to look to SAM Childers…The machine gun preacher, thats a man you wanna help over there!!!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:47amHuman Rights Watch considers that “the FARC-EPs continued use of gas cylinder mortars shows this armed group’s flagrant disregard for lives of civilians…gas cylinder bombs are impossible to aim with accuracy and, as a result, frequently strike civilian objects and cause avoidable civilian casualties.”[185]
According to the ICBL Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor, “FARC is probably the most prolific current user of antipersonnel mines among rebel groups anywhere in the world.” Furthermore, FARC use child soldiers to carry and deploy antipersonnel mines.[187]
Report Post »fobama
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:11amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=843qzloG20c this is anonymous on it, anyone that has that groups backing, will not have mine!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:43amTerrible reasoning. Anonymous is also against animal abuse; does that mean you’re for it? They were against SOPA; does that mean you support the government having the power to blacklist any site they don’t like?
What you should do is your own research and then decide… and I guarantee that any research you do will turn up that the LRA and Joseph Koney are horrible.
Report Post »fobama
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:46amThere are for the destruction of America too, are you for that?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:48amLocked
I am totally against anonymous. If they happen to be right on a particular subject, I can find another group that is fighting the good fight.
I don’t have to fund or assist Anonymous just because they are against animal cruelty. Other groups do that as well.
Drug Lord Escobar of Columbia helped the poor in his home town of Medillin. So if I hate Escobar does that mean I am not for helping the poor?
It is not above a bad group to do some charity to burnish their image.
Anonymous is evil through & through.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:58am“There are for the destruction of America too, are you for that?”
Of course not. But your reasoning is that if they support something, you must oppose it. It’s the same kind of reasoning that says “I support the GOP because I hate the Democrats.“ I prefer to look at each issue and say ”Yes, I agree“ or ”No, I disagree.” It‘s why I can’t say “I stand with Israel, always,” when I know they commit horrible atrocities; instead I say “I agree, on the whole, with their views and actions more than the Palestinians.” Same with the GOP; I agree with them more than the Democrats.
@Walkabout
“Drug Lord Escobar of Columbia helped the poor in his home town of Medillin. So if I hate Escobar does that mean I am not for helping the poor?
It is not above a bad group to do some charity to burnish their image.”
Nope. But it does ask the question, if Escobar funds a hospital, do you think that hospital should be torn down? Or do you simply call out the obvious: that he’s just doing it to get local support?
That‘s the difference between the position FObama is arguing and what I’m arguing. It’s basing your morals on what -you- believe, not what another person or group does. Can Anonymous do good? Heck yes. As said, animal cruelty perps, catching sex offenders, stopping SOPA. All good acts. Does that make the group good, in my view? No. Their ultimate goal is anarchy, and I support order. But it doesn’t mean everything they do is bad.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:10amThere are 33 wars or insurgencies going around the world at any time.
I am for intervention so that over time the overall number will be 25 or something & over time we can make the long term average ever lower.
But as soon as we move & do something someone form the left will complain that we are occupying a country. The y complained that we occupy South Korea, West Germany (now Germany) & Japan.
The problem with solving wars & world hunger is that the left gets in the way. It is hard for America to solve world problems when we have a monkey on our back. The left is one big monkey.
Obama said he was going assist in solving the LRA several months ago. Where are the results?
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Carol in MA
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:41amMy daughter asked me last night “What is Kony? everyone has it on their FB page”….so we Goggled it and found out just who Joesph Kony is. What a wonderful cause…..It only takes one person to start a movement. God Bless this man for his loving & caring heart. “KONY 2012”
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:39amRemember last year when Limbaugh spoke about this issue?
Oh, not against Kony. In defense of him. Saying that his group is Christian (which is true, if you believe what they say), aimed at creating a society based on the 10 Commandments (which, at least a dozen years ago, was the stated goal), and that Obama was sending troops (note: they weren’t actually troops) to “kill Christians” (again, if you can call mass-murdering child-soldiers killing in the name of God “Christians).
It was at that point that I finally realized that Limbaugh really is a waste of time. I‘m glad at least now Beck’s site is coming out on the side of truth and shining some light on these atrocities. Thank you, The Blaze, for following this. I hope we’ll see many reports on it, as well as condemnation of Limbaugh’s defense of the LRA.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:13amIf the left & the media says the LRA is Christian, then the LRA is Christian.
If the left & the media says Mao was a Christian because he preached social justice, then MAO was a Christian.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:22amI cringed when Rush said that. Rush shot from the hip. Rush was wrong. HE & his staff did not do their homework on that one. A little bit of knowledge is dangerous & he stepped in it on that one.
I still listen to Rush. Show me a perfect talk show host or politician. We have the esteemed Hillary Clinton, duchess of Arkansas & New York) who said “We came, we saw, he died”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20123348-503544/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/
We had a Secretary of State shooting off her mouth & tittering afterward. Is Libya better off after U.S. intervention?
It has been 4 months since Obama sent troops. What are the results. If the LRA leader uses radio, we should have been able to launch a Delta team raid in 5 days & get rid of the LRA leadership & have stopped this.
Is making the Ugandan Army feel like it is all them in defeating the LRA with the thousand of lives lost in the meantime? That is all on Obama.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:24am@Walkabout
Limbaugh said the LRA is a Christian group. They themselves say the same, and that the army was established to create a society based on the 10 Commandments. It’s nothing about the left or the mainstream media. Here are Limbaugh’s exact comments:
“You never heard of Lord’s Resistance Army? Well, proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them. Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. It means God.
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 L.R.A. ideology.” Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting.”
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:29amI am still mad.
The left are Jerks. Take Jesse Jackson. He said our intervention in Somalia was the 1st time America had helped people of color around the world. IMO Jackson’s comments are typical of the left & how they feel about America.
At the time I was so mad I wrote Rush. He gets a lot of email, so I am not sure he ever read it.
I pointed out that prior to Somalia we had evacuated people from Liberia (who were people of color) to protect their lives. We also provided relief for people of Bangladesh who were victims of a typhoon.
My take is that the term “people of color” is code words used by the left especially black race baiters to mean black & only black. The people in Bangladesh look pretty dark to me.
That no one in the media contradicted Jesse Jackson about it was not the 1st time the U.S. had helped people of color is telling. They forgot Liberia evacuations & Bangladesh aid?
airing Jackson’s unfounded charges makes good newspaper copy & they agree with it. Pointing out Jesse’s lies, not so much.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:47amI read the entire transcript. I listened to it the day he said it & I cringed.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians
Rush found out from a caller that a he was wrong. So he did what most people do. He never brought it up again.
“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.”
I will still listen to Rush. If I had to make a choice due to time or something I would pick Jerry Doyle over Rush. But I don’t have too at this point in time. Rush still does good commentary. I never expected 100%. And i damn well won;t stop listening to Rush because of any pressure from the left. They do not have the moral high ground. They have the opposite.
I look at the LRA army as someone who puts out window dressing claiming to be Christian (head fake) or something someone has SYNCRETISTICALLY has mixed elements of Christianity with other stuff & called it christian. It is not Christianity. The SYNCRETISM reminds me of the Taiping Rebellion
“The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received visions, maintained that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ,[1] against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. About 20 million peopl
Report Post »Thundermeister
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:39amSo why is this guy and his film so ‘hip’ and yet someone like Sam Childers, who is on the ground actually doing something being ignored?
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:18amI AGREE, SAM CHILDERS ORG. IS ONE i DONATE TO, ANYONE THAT HASENT SEEN THE MOVIE (TRUE STORY) OF THE MACHINE GUN PREACHER, SHOULD REALLY SEE IT, THAT IS A MAN i WILL SUPPORT!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:30amIt is popuar because it is propaganda to allow our President to make Uganda safe for the muslims. Saudi Arabia has been involved in Jihad in Uganda for some time now.
This is what it looks like when a nation has been the victim of violent Jihad for 200 years.
Watch as another non-muslim falls to Jihad…with the help of our President, at the orders of The House of Saud.
Report Post »Zen Patriot
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:37amChildrent? That’s a big typot!
Report Post »wtd
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:30am“Kony 2012” during an election year is just going to confuse. Shouldn‘t the slogan for poster’s, billboards, bracelets etc. be “Get Kony” or “Arrest Kony” or “Kill Kony” instead to make it’s point clearly?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:21amThis is part of Obama’s re-election campaign for President of the World.
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:28amThis to me has the looks and feel of Obama 2012 propaganda..especially the part where they highlighted and praised Obama’s approval for sending special forces to the area. I also wonder why this had to happen in 2012…why not 2011. The guy has been working on this for 9 years so why 2012.
I predict that they will capture Kony in 2012 and Obama will be annointed as the savior who sent troops just in time for the 2012 elections and Obama will capture the 2012 youth vote.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:30amslr4528
I called my representative & a senator & said I suspected exactly that.
Why can’t Delta team capture or kill Kony like they did Usama? Kony has fewer resources.
- Maybe Kony has secure communications & control?
- Maybe Kony has state of the art anti-aircraft artillery & can shoot down stealth helicopters?
We sent troops there last fall. It has been 4 months. Why hasn’t he been captured or killed?
Obama wants a feather in his cap for a military victory for the election. This should have been wrapped up long ago.
The staff of the congressmen took notes, said they would pass it along & said it was no big thing.
Why are we not upset over child soldier in Columbia? Because they are merely Hispanic? Because the people doing it are leftists revolutionaries in the image of Che? The left protects them. That is why!
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:12amLook I think we all agree that this animal needs to be stopped and arrested. However, from what I heard from an informed listner last night on Air 1 and from reports posted here, I don’t think I trus this organization and it smells a little too much like a one world government and community thing where we all are one people and blah blah blah. I love that they have worked for so long to stop these atrocities but I will look for a better organization and encourage Christians to find Christian based organizations that are completely transparent with their finances to support. Go on your own to congressional websites and make sure that they know you are calling for the support to arrest Kony but are not with this organization. Plus, we need to call for our president to stop cutting the military budget so that we can actually do these things and keep our own interests and people safe at the same time. Just heard that they are cutting Wright-Patt Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio by 794 jobs. This base is one of the biggest supply hubs on the Eastern side of our country and was a huge staging base for Iraq and Afghanistan. Not to mention that Dayton Ohio area has been one of the hardest hit in recent years economically because of the GM debacle and how it affected Delphi and DHS has left and so has NCR. Cutting base jobs would further criple the economy there and Obama doesn’t seem to care at all. We need our military to be able to act on Kony. Lets keep them employed.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:18amOh he cares all right-he is doing exactly what he knows will cause more hurt and discontent. That’s his thing-hate and discontent to move the country to socialism.
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:19amGood post. While I’m totally against what Kony is doing, I think you need to take a more in depth look at the organization.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:54am@Patriotmama
Invisible Children responded to criticism about their transparency by releasing their financial data:
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TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:26amWell said Patriot Mama…. I am definiately FOR bringing Kony to justice, but not necessarily FOR what might be behind this group Invisible Children…it does seems highly targeted…on children and children don’t have to perspective and experience of adults usually…and may blindly believe what is being told to them as fact, not understanding that they have to “do their homework” to know who this group is and what they stand for. Interesting that The Blaze posted it though….they are usually very thorough in research and investigating?
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:50am“Go on your own to congressional websites and make sure that they know you are calling for the support to arrest Kony but are not with this organization”
Exactly
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:07amThank you Thank you Thank you Thank you..Blaze for covering this story, you just made a fan of my 17 year old son. In this crazy upside down world, it is great to know that there is a voice of reason. I urge all of you Blaze readers to post this story on all of your social net works, I know I will. God Bless you Johnathan Seidl for doing this story.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:23amThis is not what you think it is.
What you are witnessing is the last dying gasps of a non-muslim nation. This is the final stage. Where the target people have been reduced to acts of violence in the same manner as the muslims jihadists intent on their conversion. Uganada has suffered under Islamic Jihad for nearly 200 years.
Our President is using our Armed forces to kill off the last vestiges of non-muslim culture in Uganda so the the path is clear for the ascendancy of Islam. Our muslim President.
This is not what you think.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:54amThis stuff has been going on since the dawn of time, and if the creator of the universe isn’t going to stop it, then what makes people think they are going to stop it? Many, many peoples live in secluded regions, and Islands because that’s where they are supposed to be – cut-off from the rest of the human race. But then wicked people go in there and say “Here, have some technology.” You don’t lead people on who believe they can gain more spiritual power by eating the carcass of spiritual people. They are cut-off from people for a reason.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:59amAnd the blindness is sad, because for exactly the same reason that people can not keep their meddling fingers out of the worlds of people who are cut-off for a reason, is exactly the reason the earth itself is cut-off from other worlds trillions of miles away. Because you just can’t say “No, I won’t do that.”
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:04amThe entire earth is the Lord’s “Proving Grounds”, and you just keep proving you’re nothing but primitive men belonging to the confines of earth for a reason.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:50am.
Don’t we have a Ugandan in the White House?…….
Is this why the Press don’t show his kids on TV?………..
Report Post »thankyouvets
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:34amHow do we make the partial birth abortion children (and all aborted children) VISIBLE Pres. Barack Hussein Obama?
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Yes this is a very good cause. It tugs on my heart.
thankyouvets
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:55amThanx Cham, I will have to look into this more before donating any funds.
Report Post »chameleonx
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:24am“The non-profit, Invisible Children, is shady with its finances and business practices: The Visible Children blog accuses the non-profit of wasting money and being opaque with its finances: “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, 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…”
The campaign echoes colonialism and the “White Man’s Burden” mentality: On Wednesday, the blog, Umuted, wrote, “if you have watched the Invisible Children video and followed the organization’s work in the past, you will note a certain messianic/savior undertone to it all. “I will do anything I can to stop him,” declares the founder in the video. It’s quite individualistic and reeks of the dated colonial views of Africa and Africans as helpless beings who need to be saved and civilized.”
“Foreign Affairs wrote last year goes on to say that Invisible Children, “rarely refer to the Ugandan atrocities or those of Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army, such as attacks against civilians or looting of civilian homes and businesses, or the complicated regional politics fueling the conflict…”
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chameleonx
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:27amI wanted to use the snippets from the link first before I commented. Even though I can agree what is going on wrong and needs to be fixed; this campaign will never, ever work. Like a dud firecracker.
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Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:52am@Chameleonx
Your source is interesting, as several of their quoted sources have since renounced their criticism. Visible Children (quoted twice in your source), for example, has turned 180 degrees and thanked Invisible Children for their work and explaining how their organization operates:
“This is precisely the sort of information I was hoping they would be more up-front with. Please read this – it’s great that IC is providing this resource.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html”
Foreign Affairs, also quoted, has absolutely no substantiating sources for their claim of “misleading numbers”… as opposed to Invisible Children, which cites all kinds of humanitarian tracking systems. FA refused to reply to the counter-criticism.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:12amMaybe they should try to stop the violence in Detroit first.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:26amDetroit fits their goal of being dependent on goverment
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:39amThought it was Detroit at first… Well said.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:43amThis happens every day in every ghetto in America run by Democrats…‘Common Denominators’ for the win Alex…
Report Post »TheBeautyofTruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:36amYou have a point Postman…but the kidnapping & defacing & sexual slavery & the violence upon innocents I would think be higher on the scale of urgency. Just saying….
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:37amWhy pick Uganda over Columbia? Columbia is closer. It affects us more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC#Child_soldiers
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:38amI have seen the true colors of a LOT of individuals on this board. Raising awareness with donations from INDIVIDUALS…goodness. This isn’t even a fight for GOVERNMENT money…If you have done any research on this conflict, you know the situation and problems. Oh, and your argument for ‘fix Detroit first,‘ isn’t that what liberals say when we want to have any sort of excursion to foreign countries with our military? Ridiculous. It is the typical citizen’s failure to recognize how good we have it here. And you denounce a PRIVATE organization for trying to improve the quality of life of people. So much for compassionate conservatives.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:49amThe Lord’s Resistance Army was formed in 1987 in the Acholi region of Northern Uganda. Initially, the LRA was an outgrowth and continuation of the larger armed resistance movement waged by some of the Acholi people against a central Ugandan government which they felt marginalized them. Over 25 years, the LRA’s political goals have become much harder to decipher
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:07am“Before the collapse of the USSR, U.S. interventions against national liberation movements and governments tied to Moscow faced broad opposition on the left
The lesson of Somalia is the urgent need to build an anti-imperialist movement opposed to all U.S. military action—one that is unswerving in opposition to all interventions, regardless of whether they cloaked as “humanitarian.” As Somalia shows us, there is no “humanity” in humanitarian interventions. ” – International Socialist Review
Why are we intervening in Uganda 7 not trying to take down FARC in Columbia?
Because FARC is a leftists Guerilla group that wants to implement socialism & so it‘s scat doesn’t stink. It doesn’t matter that they use child soldiers. The U.S. left & international left will protect FARC & FARC will continue to use child soldier & rape children.
If we intervene in a country to prevent famine, civil war or anything else the left will stab the Americans in the back. They have done it before. They will do it again.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:14amFARC has been accused of committing violations of human rights by numerous groups, including the Colombian government, U.S. government, European Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and United Nations.
A February 2005 report from the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, “FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches [of human rights] such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC#Child_soldiers
Report Post »GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:01pmI agree walkabout. My whole point is mainly that ‘non-interventionism’ is the easiest way to let things spin out of control. Problem is, smart people find other things to occupy their time with, whilst the less competant find themselves in positions to affect national level policy. I actually agree with some of those who say this group should put the money into some security contractors to fix the issue, but that sets up a precedent for ‘tit for tat’ violence. A stickey situation indeed, but one that deserves attention.
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