[LemonJam]

About KONY 2012

Who is Joseph Kony?

Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

The LRA has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons.

The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.

What is the goal of KONY 2012?

Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.

We are taking action to ensure these two things:

1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.

2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.

Why are we making Joseph Kony “famous”?

Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.

Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished.

http://www.kony2012.com/


I'm not really good at telling people what to do... but please watch the video. It's 30 minutes of your time and... it'll be worth it.

If someone could sticky this etc that'd be awesome.

[Samuel.]

Bumping this. Needs to be watched.

[Z]

Watching now James

Really inspiring. Sincere thanks for posting LJ. I will definitely be contributing financially and getting involved on April 20th.

[Niall]

A girl in my form went and spoke to use all about it today. Its an awesome idea. And the things this man has done are just beyond inhuman. I was so disgusted when I found out what he did.

[LemonJam]

Originally Posted by Niall

A girl in my form went and spoke to use all about it today. Its an awesome idea. And the things this man has done are just beyond inhuman. I was so disgusted when I found out what he did.

I'm shocked that 99% of the world don't even know who the man is! Had I not watched the video quite frankly I'd be completely oblivious about the whole thing.

I think the message is spreading really quick though because whenever I go on the site now the server fails so I've had a bit of trouble on it, definitely gonna buy the kit and donate when possible though!

[Niall]

Originally Posted by LemonJam

I'm shocked that 99% of the world don't even know who the man is! Had I not watched the video quite frankly I'd be completely oblivious about the whole thing.

I think the message is spreading really quick though because whenever I go on the site now the server fails so I've had a bit of trouble on it, definitely gonna buy the kit and donate when possible though!

Me too! You'd think that he'd be spoken about in schools or something? It shocks me how something so abhorrent has gone on relatively unchecked.

I'm gonna copy you and put that banner in my sig LJ. Its a great idea.

[Z]

I am so glad I watched this, thank you for sharing James!

[Lee.]

I'm in. What an inspirational and humbling film..

[Ninastar]

I feel like this is a cult after reading your responses

-watches-

[King Gizzard]

Stickied it..I'll have a watch later

[LemonJam]

Thank you so much Nate

[King Gizzard]

Yeah.. these sort of African atrocities are pretty much unknown to us because there's no oil involved at all, it's sad

[Niall]

I just watched the video in full and I really do think I'm gonna buy that action kit.

[Lee.]

I've tried to get back on the site to share on FB etc, but it says its temporarily unavailable...

[LemonJam]

yeah I've had problems with it as well Lee :\ I'm just hoping the reason is that it's getting so much attention!

[Lee.]

Me too Niall... 'cept I don't know how to. James could you pm me what to put as my sig please? Or could a mod maybe just do it for me?

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Me too Niall... 'cept I don't know how to. James could you pm me what to put as my sig please? Or could a mod maybe just do it for me?

Just paste this into your sig, I resized it so I could have it along with my Mockingjay Pin and I embedded the link to website within it:

[*URL="http://www.kony2012.com/"][*IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2pqas.png[/IMG][/URL]

Just get rid of *'s in there and it'll be good to go.

[King Gizzard]

I'll do it one sec

[Jords]

Getting right behind this. A really important campaign in my eyes. I have shared on Facebook and Twitter.

[King Gizzard]

Top trend on twitter now

[LemonJam]

Great news.

[Brother Leon]

Yeah, knew about him already. I don't usually agree with who the western world labels as Villains etc, and usually feel they should mind their own business. However this guy is different.

He has an army of people who see him an a hero though and would pretty much die for him if need be.

[King Gizzard]

Loads of celebs/musicians on it now. Would not be surprised if it's on TV today

[Jords]

Rihanna just tweeted it