KONY 2012

[Leopolds Ghost]

15. The problem is, the only reason for the video is to make people aware of Kony and the LRA.

So when people who haven't seen the video say they don't know who the LRA is, and therefore aren't inclined to see the video because they are worried it's a RW plot, it makes me go



I mean, the major criticism of the video is that it wears its intention on its sleeve -- it says it's propaganda right out front and that the only purpose of the video is to make people aware of who Kony is (who's not in Uganda anyhow).

So while I think the intentions of the guy producing the video might be iffy, that's probably due to him being a stubborn minded character who is set in his ways about what the solution would be. But I for one, for instance, would rather have seen US send troops to Congo (where the LRA is) to stop the genocide there, NOT Libya, and Congo is loaded with natural resources.

Most of the people who supported our adventure to assassinate Ghadafi in Libya would line up to oppose going into Congo because the French own all the natural resources there and consider it their colony, which is why the US lets the genocide in the Congo (including the LRA) continue while we fund troops in Uganda and Rwanda (who helped initiate the violence in the Congo by invading that country, much as Nixon did when he invaded Cambodia). So we send troops to Libya and Uganda not the Congo where they might do some good.