Hey, just thought I'd let you know that Invisible Children is a non-transparent organization seeking direct military intervention in Africa. They have no grasp of the situation, and have effectively made things much worse in Northern Uganda, where Kony has not been operating for five years. In fact, his army is now only 200 strong, and trapped in the Congo, a country which was brought to the most devastating war since World War II by Yuveri Museveni and Paul Kagame. Over 6,000,000 are dead and rising. Yuveri Museveni, the president of Uganda, is backed by Invisible Children.

Invisible Children works with warlords and rebel leaders who have tenuous relationships with one another, seeking to grant them power without any care as to what will happen after Kony is gone. These groups (the SPLA and the UPDF) have been at odds with one another for ages, and are being empowered by Invisible Children, which, in future, could lead to war in the currently peaceful Northern Uganda region.

But it will likely never be over, because the USA has been sending aid for the LRA mission in Uganda for years, which has even led to a bill proposed by the Invisible Children to be passed called the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, which allows Northern Uganda to legally invade nearby nations if they believe the LRA is within their borders. This has allowed the dictator Museveni's army to loot and plunder the Central African Republic and DR Congo for resources, while simultaneously raping their women. They also induct ex-LRA child soldiers into their own army where they are uncompensated for their works, and untrained.

However, neither the Ugandan, nor the United States government have any reason to actually capture and kill Kony, as that would mean Uganda losing its unique power to legally invade other nations. On the USA's end, it would halt their AFRICOM missions in Uganda in order to secure African resources away from both rural citizens and the Chinese, who have expanded into Africa heavily over the last decade or so.

Citizens in all four affected LRA countries have spoken out against Invisible Children and their cause, and they want them gone. Invisible Children has undermined local aid in order to implement their own misguided programs which end up wasting money at best, if not degrading the quality of life in the region. Not to mention taking jobs away from Ugandan citizens. In fact, their safe transport program is used almost entirely by drifters who panhandle from city to city on NGO money. Since these programs are only available in Northern Uganda, where the LRA has not been for five years, nobody requires safe transport between villages, and so the program can only be utilized for useless means.

It should also be noted that Invisible Children's lobbying of the US government technically puts them in violation of the non-profit act. This could constitute tax fraud.

Their video is fancy, and on the surface promotes a positive message. However, you have to ask yourself, what does awareness do when the people who are becoming aware are a bunch of misguided North American college students? We in Canada and the USA have no knowledge of what life is like in Uganda. We don't understand their political or social climate. We don't understand their geography, or the relationships between businesses and the citizens of the country. Still, as Westerners, we assume that somehow we have the answer to this problem. Joseph Kony is not a disease, but a symptom of something endemic within Central Africa. He is one of dozens of similar warlords operating in the same region, albeit Kony is more transparent, making him more attractive as an enemy. He is someone we can all supposedly stand up and fight against, but all these efforts are doing is granting power to dictatorships and rebel warlords, which could ultimately end more lives than the LRA could ever dream of.

Going after Joseph Kony is like cutting off somebody's head to get at a pimple on their cheek.

Oh, and some sources:

http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/.....anization.html

http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/1.......6/2010-06-02

http://www.sirolli.com/DesktopModul.....amp;portalId=0

https://underthebanyan.wordpress.co.....backlash/#more

http://rwandinfo.com/eng/responsibi.....ngo-genocides/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor.....seph-Kony-2012 -growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html

http://rtnt.tumblr.com/post/1895834.....-the-deluge-of

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts.....uest_post_jose ph_kony_is_not_in_uganda_and_other_complicated_things

http://www.observer.ug/index.php?op.....tories&Ite

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