KONY 2012

[Plebings]

The issue with taking out a man who uses a child army is that his bodyguards are children. Any effort to capture or kill him will almost certainly result in many children’s deaths, an impact that needs to be minimized as much as possible. Each attempt brings more retaliation. And yet Invisible Children funds this military intervention. Kony has been involved in peace talks in the past, which have fallen through. But Invisible Children is now focusing on military intervention.

This is my main concern too

I think everyone can agree that he is an evil man, but funding military intervention is a double edged sword, I'm not saying I can think of a better way, but I do hope someone else can.

[DPS]

lol this is the kinda thing that shows how dumb people can be..
the truth is out there for people to find yet most aint smart enough to look.

charity starts at home anyway.. africa means nothing to me.

[Vause]

I kinda agree with the comments made about africa meaning "nothing", i mean our money should be going on making our own country a better place before we worry about anything else.

[FlyingJesus]

Truly scary how up-in-arms people can get about things that they haven't even looked into themselves, just blindly following the first statement they hear. When people are this bloody stupid it's no wonder the government chooses not to ask us what we think before writing up bills

[Jordy]

I kinda agree with the comments made about africa meaning "nothing", i mean our money should be going on making our own country a better place before we worry about anything else.

Disagree ,your money should go wherever you want it to seeing as its yours. There's no right or wrong on what country you donate money to.

[dbgtz]

I'm not going to pretend or say I watched all of the video and know a lot on the issue. But in this video, I noticed 2 things that struck me. One is that they say Kony has no supports, which makes no sense at all as even dictators have some sort of support by somebody, otherwise it just wouldn't work surely? So that was probably just to get some empathy of some sort out of the viewer which could result in more money. The second thing is that they're quite happy to sit on their backsides and want other countries to sort it out. I think a person even says "we welcome a friend of Uganda wants to get involved to save our children" or something along those lines.

Also this is an example of why I don't trust charities anymore (regarding the figures and information presented in this thread).

[DPS]

Just hope our goverment doesnt get involved... the country is already in a crap place, thanks to the MP's

Also saw a tweet from a man from Uganda and he said "its abit late"

[beth]

charity starts at home anyway.. africa means nothing to me.
(and all other comments with this kinda message)

may i quote enter shikari? you know what sod it, gonna do it anyway:

"If our lives aren't directly affected, then it don't need to be corrected
how ******* cute is our ignorance"

just because you aren't in africa this doesn't mean this doesn't have a direct influence on us, and it should morally anyway to know that this is happening somewhere in the world.

i don't agree with the kony2012 campaign because i think it's more about the film/charity involved than the actual contents of the film but that doesn't mean we should all just shut our eyes and minds and hope for the best.

[DPS]

charity starts at home anyway.. africa means nothing to me.
(and all other comments with this kinda message)

may i quote enter shikari? you know what sod it, gonna do it anyway:

"If our lives aren't directly affected, then it don't need to be corrected
how ******* cute is our ignorance"

just because you aren't in africa this doesn't mean this doesn't have a direct influence on us, and it should morally anyway to know that this is happening somewhere in the world.

i don't agree with the kony2012 campaign because i think it's more about the film/charity involved than the actual contents of the film but that doesn't mean we should all just shut our eyes and minds and hope for the best.

I still dont see your point. everyone is intitled to have there own views.

[beth]

I still dont see your point. everyone is intitled to have there own views.

everyone is definitely entitled to their own opinions.

we shouldn't ignore things just because they aren't happening in our front garden, if people/you care about this worlds population and health as a whole we should take an interest in things that are happening. even if you don't give money, you should be aware and educate yrself on these things.

i hate the idea that it doesn't matter because it's not here, so sod helping them. what are countries but lines across a map? we are all humans at the end of the day, we share this earth, we should help as much as we can.

i disagree with military help because like alex and many other doctrines have said there are children involved and the introduction of force before has had a negative effect on the country. but we shouldn't just give up. there are other ways of aid that don't include nuking and killing.