Kony 2012 *Please hear this out!*

People will take action when and where they see fit, it doesnt matter if OP has been to Africa 12 times and took down cocaine warlords, or if they just watched the video. People are smart enough to take their own thoughts and feelings to the actions they make.

If you don't want to listen, fine, don't. But you have to keep in mind that this idea isn't really about Kony himself.

i just think one should educate themselves more about topics if they feel compelled to make other people take action simply based off a video from a non-profit organization that is known to not be "nonprofit" so to speak.

He's not making you do anything, you're a real boy now. You aint got no strings.

"100 Advisers", is the key term here.


They're rallying to KEEP these 100 in there, not to get more.

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Oh **** I hope your government doesn't send more.

Oh God he's serious.

I come from a country that was colonized and enslaved for over 200 years. We don't go around blaming them for our problems. We were invaded by an American led UN force in the 90's...we don't blame them for our problems.

You are deluding yourself if you think this has anything to do with the west aside from their discovery of oil in Uganda and the difficulty of getting to it. The Ugandans are trying to stabalize the region as cheaply as possible so they can start cashing in - they could have done something at any point but chose not to. The Ugandan government, along with "western" (because China and Russia are also the west?) interests are trying to find a way to justify involvement to their people because "something needs to be done...FOR THE CHILDREN!".

Simply put, it is going to be used as a justification for creating a large enough militay presence to make getting at that oil cost effective - even if that presence is Ugandan, it will be funded by foreign interestes. I am betting that we are only hearing about this because the geologists found a bunch of oil under the area that is controlled by that warlord and he doesn't want to share his cut with the other Ugandans.

Don't get me wrong, if some good gets done along the way that is amazing and it should never be overlooked. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking that governments are REALLY interested in that. Make no mistake, when the oil is no longer profitable, they will leave.

Let me cite some history since you seem to be interested. Maybe you are just too young to really understand what happened in Somalia, and it is too recent for classes but here is a hint; it had NOTHING to do with trying to stop the civil war to save the Somali's and everything to do with getting at the resources under its soil. When the cost became greater than the profit, the forces left...
http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/15

In the mean time child labor will be exploited in China and India, sheiks will live in excess while treating their women like second class non-citizens, people will lead religious cults that trade children into sexual slavery in America, and it will all be ignored since we can get what want out of those countries...all hail the mighty dollar!!

Sorry, I am in a bad mood

This kind of thing happen all the time in other country's.

Hell, it happens in this (USA) country. Ever hear of Warren Jeffs (you will need to do more than read the Wikipedia article to get the picture)? Go down the checklist - Jeff's and Kony have an amazing amount in common!

You know what, screw this; I am going to get high and play video games instead. At least maybe then I can pretend I live in a world where people know that love and humility are worth more than money and power, human dignity is valued, the good guy always wins in the end, and that there is something left worth saving.

Sorry, still in a bad mood

That's my point. why care just about this one place.

I was agreeing with you, just expanding on the subject is all. I feel better now

On the point of the Muhajideen (Taliban) American support for them had nothing to do with the support of Afghanistan. American support there was to avoid a war with Russia. U.S. support came about after the assassination of the Afghan president and the expansion of Communism in the Middle East. You have to understand that during the Cold War there was a constant threat of a third World War for forty-six years. That kind of pressure on political leaders to act, and at the same time being pressured not to act makes them take action that seems sensible at the time and costly in the future. Truth be told, if there were no Proxy Wars (Muhajideen against the Red Army, CIA and the FBI against MI6 against the KGB) a third World War was a real possibility.

Proxy Wars (supporting paramilitary, political rebels, and/or terrorist) are used to avoid full scale wars. It's never any government's intent to support a Proxy War so that those groups can become an active opposition to existing governments, other than those it would be targeting.

In this situation, it's something the U.N. or NATO should become concerned with. Not only is it the kind of inhumane acts that should not be tolerated by regional governments, but there are political benefits for doing so. With that in mind, their inactivity is perplexing to me. Unless you factor in local politics of destabilized countries in Africa, then the reason for inaction becomes abundantly clear.

POLITICS

A method for the powerful to ensure that they stay in power.

Everything about Kony 2012 (like it being just a front to get oil) has been said on this thread before so I'll ask this.

If snipehead isn't using this account, who is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... UPr9YhXa4#!

Oh yeah?!?! I see your politics and raise you
RELIGION
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