In Defense of Doing Something: Invisible Children & Kony2012
Wondering why your Facebook feed is suddenly full of links to the Kony2012 video, produced by Invisible Children ? Wondering why some of your Facebook friends are also posting links discrediting the Kony2012 video and Invisible Children? Wondering what the heck I am talking about? First, if you don't know anything about Invisible Children or the Kony2012 video: watch it here The 29-minute video, created by the charity organization Invisible Children, is a call for the US government to continue making the end of the Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army . The LRA has a long history of brutality and atrocities. The LRA has abducted thousands upon thousands of children, forcing them to serve as soldiers, concubines or porters---in addition to getting them addicted to drugs, sniffing glue, etc. Joseph Kony has been the leader of the LRA and has been likened to other lunatic despots like Hitler, Pol Pot , Kim Jong Il , etc. Over ten mil...