Kony 2012

Hi Guys,



Most of you have been asking why I am not supporting the Empire no longer. Today I type this message for you to inform you of my reasoning.

The reason is Kony 2012. If you do not know what this is, I will explain it to you in a few lines.

In Uganda, children get kidnapped all the time. The man behind these kidnappings is Joseph Kony, a guy who leads something called LRA or lords resistance army. He kidnaps these children, and forces them into becoming children soldiers, he gets them to kill their own parents, mutilate peoples faces and also for the women, into becoming sex slaves.

Kony is a campaign being run by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

He is a war criminal and is first on the most wanted criminal lists all over the world. He MUST be stopped, and to do that we need YOU, YOU need to share his name and make him famous, WE ALL NEED TO TAKE ACTION.

So guys, lets all make it our mission to be able to say:
"JOSEPH KONY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST WAR CRIMINALS. I AM SUPPORTING THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ARREST HIM, DISARM THE LRA AND BRING THE CHILD SOLDIERS HOME"

This is where my money is going, all the money I can possibly afford to give to a worthy cause. (I am at college, and have a loan, but I will stop at nothing to stop Joseph from all the crimes he is committing.) I am taking ACTION, I want this monster rid off, he has no right to do this. I promise you guys, I WILL BE STOPPING AT NOTHING TO HELP WITH KONY 2012.

20th of april is the date I and many others all over the world will be plastering the cities with posters of Joseph to make him known, look on facebook for your local movement, and take action!

I end my post with a video that explains it very well, please guys, even if you cant afford to donate to this, share it around the internet, we need to make this guy known, in order for the USA to do anything about Joseph.



LETS GET THIS MONSTER ARRESTED!

I watched it yesterday - 20k views
watched it when I got home - 7.3million views
watched it before I left to get my hair cut - 9million views
This dude seriously needs to be stopped! even notch posted on twitter about this!

EDIT: I just looked now.. 15million viewers!
EDIT: Thursday morning 7:33am I checked and it is 26million viewers now
EDIT: Thursday evening 4:31pm 30million views

Like I said, I am stopping at nothing, I will do all I can to get him arrested!

hmmm If only I could hack google.. and all the other top sites in the world I would upload the video on there and see if it will help them out

If only you could.....

I donated $30

*EDIT* Now that I saw the video.. The Invisible Children people came to our church with a guy from Uganda, it was pretty awesome

Lol, just share the video, share it with everybody you know, all you email contacts, facebook friends, keep sharing it!

WE MUST MAKE HIM KNOWN!

AWESOME!

I posted it on facebook and tweeted it 3 times yesterday

MR2R2M This post was amazing you deserve 20k likes from the whole server I'll start it!

I second

Thank you guys. I appreciate it. All this requires individuals like myself to make this public. Lets all do this and fight this war!

Hopefully this can be put on the front page so more people are made aware of it

As stated in the message reply, we don't want to turn EMC into a political arena for debate, and will keep front page posts to EMC related things only. You are free to have your post, of course, but as soon as we front page one person's agenda, we'd have to post them all. I would suggest, as Liz did to you, try things like Facebook, Twitter and possibly some World News forums. They would be more appropriate for a front page post of his matter.

This shows you can raise masses for any cause if you just can make a nice video. Reminds me of H***'s campains, they had the same appeal then.

Just FYI, this group funds the Ugandan army, which is well known for raping and looting.

I applaud everyone's desire to want to help. But I caution you to research the money and where it is going.

So in other words, when you support this, its still going to something bad...

What JustinGuy perhaps means by this is that organisations that ask for donations to support their cause may not always spend all your money on how you think it is being spent or how you would like it to be spent.

Check out:
http://c2052482.r82.cf0.rackcdn.com...1-Audited Financial Statements.pdf?1320205055

To see how they spend their money. It's not brilliant.

Here is a well thought out article that helps explain what concerns I have around the Invisible Children organization: http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/

Again I will add I am against this type of behavior, it is horrific, but as usual you have to look a little deeper than what Facebook, YouTube, and the mass media is selling you. Be careful what you fund (both with money and spreading awareness).

Yes, and for those that don't want to read it:

By IC’s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million)

I applaud people that want to support good causes, but you need to be able to define where you're supporting a good cause, or where you're supporting someone who's using a good cause to get support.

Correct this is one valuable piece of information. What worries me about this group is less about how they do their accounting, and more about what their political views are and what they will do with the money that is left over.