I apologize for my disappearance but there's something that bugs me about KONY 2012 and I need to talk about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
(For anyone who may not know what KONY2012 is)

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First of all, click those links and you'll know most of what I'm about to tell you.


There are many reasons not to support the charity group Invisible Children among them include:

• Joseph Kony probably isn't in Uganda
• Many of the facts mentioned in the video are outrageously misrepresented
• Joseph Kony isn't abducting children for no reason, it isn't a good reason but he's not abducting raping and murdering just for the fun of it as the video blatantly portrays

Not to mention the fact that the "policy makers" and "culture makers" that Invisible Children is so obsessed with getting the attention of really have absolutely no power in the conflict itself, only in American public opinion and intervention.

Invisible Children wants the people of the United States to force the government of the United States to assist a group, who until a few years ago was using child soldiers to fight AGAINST the LRA, in using military action against Joseph Kony.

What Invisible Children does is take sides in a complicated conflict that truly has no transparent "good guy" or "bad guy". If you're okay with taking the lesser of the two evils to temporarily save kids who will most likely suffer under the current Ugandan government then by all means continue to support this cause.

However, if you want to stop rape murder and abduction I challenge you to realize that giving power to a group that is also infamous for rape, murder, and abduction isn't going to solve much of anything.

Do the Ugandan people WANT the United States to come into their homeland, guns blazing, to take out one man and then leave? Or do they want a peaceful end to a conflict that has already left them broken? The KONY2012 campaign doesn't ask that question, but it gives them an answer.

DFTBA,
Chuck

Postscript: I seriously think we should consider getting this blog back up and running, (sorry for stealing whoever's day this is)...

Postpostscript: Just in case you were wondering about me, I am officially a High School graduate. I've decided to take a semester off before starting college. I've also decided that I'm going to attend Purchase College in NY instead of Bowling Green State University in OH, it's a lot closer to home. I've been occupying my time by interning at a Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at a local college and partying... I hope you're all doing really well! Best wishes!