Kony 2012 SCAM!

[Tim Cornelis]

Behold, the three founders of the Invisible Children "non-profit" organisation:


http://f3v3r.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony-2012-Jason-Russell-Bobby-Bailey-and-Laren-Poole.jpg

They are arming Ugandan troops who commit atrocities (rape, child soldiers). Pocket most of the money for their cause, and exagarete about the LRA. The LRA has been dwindling in power and Joseph Kony hasn't been seen since 2006. Some say he is in Congo or at least outside Uganda, some say he is dead.


On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:

Stop sending me that video.

The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ”misleading,” “naive,” and “dangerous” by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of “manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.” They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau’s standards.

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

http://keepittrill.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/stop-invisible-children-kony2012.jpg

[Ballyfornia]

But what Uganda do about it?

In all seriousness though I think most people are starting to cop on about this, with that visible children article going viral.

[GPDP]

Yeah, somehow the word is getting out about this campaign. Sure, a lot of people, including my own sister, got caught up in this fad, but I'm seeing more and more people speaking out with the real facts surrounding this.

[Nox]

Those guys look even more stupid than that American teen who volunteered to fight with the Libyan rebels :laugh:

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Tony 2012

http://www.facebook.com/tony2012official

[l'Enfermé]

I'm down with the Tony Blair thing.

[Krano]

I'm down with the Tony Blair thing.
Bush & Cheney 2012 would be even better.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Rick Santorum 2012

For crimes against intelligence.

[CommunityBeliever]

Capitalism 2012

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Anyways, I think everyone on this website should be able to logically draw from this whole movement that it is based on nothing more than the brainwashing of the ignorant sections of our youth. Those people who think they suddenly know how the fix the world's greatest problem will actually aid in the creation of a new problem: increased American imperialist involvement in Africa. These liberal elitists use the soft minds of the politically uneducated youth as a platform to support imperialism. Even at my high school, you hear people talking about how they are going to support the movement, but yet I had to tell them which country they were supporting and what the Lord's Resistance Army was!

I guess I can say that a few American advisors to Uganda is not that bad, but no, these people are calling for more American involvement. This whole movement is a perfect example of one of the things that makes revolutionary leftists so sick about the bourgeois oriented left. And the funny thing about the movement and video is that they try so hard to connect with the peace and neo-yippie youth movements, yet they use all traditional methods of gaining support and money: relying on rich people and trying to get political support from Washington. They are hypocrites. They hide behind what seems, to the untrained mind, to be a grassroots movement, but is instead a perfect example of a traditional bourgeois, capitalist, and elitist movement.