https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html
The ******** is piling up.
The ******** is piling up.
I was only able to watch 25 minutes of it, it's viral on facebook. Did anyone else tear up when the little boy started talking about his brother and how he wanted to die? Joseph Kony is a monster, but I didn't see the U.S. stop Hitler or Pol Pot before it was too late. The question is, why would you simply want to arrest Kony? Why can't the U.S. send some special forces or commandos to take care of the problem?
Worst-case scenario, I just paid $30 to help educate maybe 10% or so of the people in America who watched that video (about 3 million people or so?) where Uganda is on a map of Africa...
This is the worst meme I have ever seen in my life. You didn't even get the font right.
The first several responses to this topic as well as all of support on social media just shows how easily brainwashed and manipulated people are. Some or many of you probably watched this video, believed it, then found out it was bs. I watched it and at the same time, knew it was propaganda bs. Let the Uganda girl tell you for herself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DO73Ese25Y&feature=player_embedded
Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the mega-viral "Kony 2012" documentary, was arrested in San Diego on Thursday night, NBC reported, citing the San Diego Police Department. Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something," NBC's San Diego affiliate reported, citing San Diego Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.
The San Diego Police Department's Brown did not immediately return two messages left Friday from Yahoo News.
The co-founder of the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego's Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said.
Russell's 30-minute documentary on Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army became a surprise mega viral hit, receiving over 80 million viewers since its release last week. But the film has also kicked up a backlash of criticism against the group, ranging from how Invisible Children spends its finances to whether it cut corners with the facts in order to create a more compelling film about a more than two-decade old Central African conflict.
But Invisible Children has also found many prominent defenders of its work, from members of Congress to President Barack Obama, who sent 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda last fall to search for Kony.
"I think that these guys are getting mercilessly picked apart by a bunch of intellectual elites who spend their days tweeting but never trending," Cameron Hudson, former Bush White House Africa hand, told Yahoo News last week. "If their aim is to raise awareness, they have done that in spades."