Mystic Politics

Invisible Children & Kony2012: A Better Story About Faith and Science

‘I want to take a break from the usual does-science-contradict-faith controversies and look at the intersection of faith and science in another way … from the perspective of the Kony 2012 campaign.’

#Kony2012: Invisible Children Co-Founder Arrested For Masturbating In Public, Vandalizing Cars

LOL: A co-founder for #invisiblechildren, Jason Russell, 33, was detained in Pacific Beach Thursday, allegedly found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to San Diego Police Department.

#Kony2012: Youth Movement Promotes US Military Presence in Central Africa

‘KONY 2012 is produced like any other sleek marketing campaign – instead of stimulating elements of self-satisfaction like advertisers would do to promote a product, US military intervention is justified to end an atrocious humanitarian catastrophe. The film also plays on an underlying theme of the White Man’s Burden, a notion that persons of European descent inherit a quality of guilt for their ancestors’ inclination for slavery and colonialism, requiring an activist response to finally correct the situation by “saving Africa.”’

Phony Kony Baloney: How Invisible Children’s #Kony2012 Will Hurt Central Africa

‘The campaign and accompanying film advocate — via technological assistance, training and the presence of United States military personnel throughout Central Africa — for military support of the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, ostensibly to facilitate the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group and an accused war criminal indicted by the International Criminal Court.’

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Lords of Resistance: The Problem With Invisible Children’s Kony 2012

‘Kony is a grotesque war criminal, to be sure, but the Ugandan government currently in power also came to power through the use of kadogo (child soldiers) and fought alongside militias employing child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, something that Invisible Children seem wilfully ignorant of.

By blindly supporting Uganda’s current government and its military adventures beyond its borders, as Invisible Children suggests that people do, Invisible Children is in fact guaranteeing that there will be more violence, not less, in Central Africa.’

[Documentary] KONY 2012 by Invisible Children

‘KONY 2012: Joseph Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments throughout Uganda.’

Watch Now: [Documentary] KONY 2012 by Invisible Children

[Image] And then I told Kony…