It isn't gonna work and it isn't gonna help. And I'm against this movement.
We have similar problems here, where I live. A small group of people that murder, kidnap and do horrible things. They also have kids in their "armies".
US sends money, people and military devices to us, so we can fight against those "terrorists" and drug dealers. I'm too lazy to do the math, but over the years US has sent and spent millions or billions "helping" us.
Our last president made a similar campaign to the one in the video. He said he was going to stop and end every insurgent group there was. Most people voted for him because of that, and he spent 4 years trying to do so, yet he failed. It was an idiotic promise, yet people are moronic and didn't understand it wouldn't happen. Still, he got reelected (he changed the constitution to do so) and for the next 4 years he kept on failing. It was impossible not to fail, it's hillarious how he expected to catch 20 guys that are running in the woods.
They did manage to kill some of the most important members of those terrorist groups, however it was irrelevant in our situation. Same would happen to the LRA. Bunch of leaders get killed, men who are next in rank will take leadership from then on and it's as if nothing had happened. They're still there, they're still doing horrible things and there's still a war between insurgents and the Colombian army-paramilitary. People keeps on dying everyday, but that doesn't seem to be a problem, even now government and most people are against peaceful talks to end the conflict.
However, it gets worse. As the article I posted earlier says 75% of US help goes to our ULTRA-right wing military forces. Most of our taxes go there as well, but only poor and middle class money because rich people don't pay taxes... actually they get most of the benefits, both from tax payers and US help. Why? Because the conflict is based on who owns the land. Old-insurgent groups were against just a few owning all land, those few with the help of the government, military and their own paramilitary groups started the war. Right now, it's completely different and they're just fighting to control lands and grow drugs, teams are the same, though. When the US sends help, they're helping those rich families, those drug dealers that have contacts with politicians, they're helping awful warlords that don't use guns to kill because they prefer chainsaws or public impaling... and they don't do it just to insurgents but to civilians.
Even if KONY 2012 movement is well intended, what they are going to cause is awful. I'm certain it will be the same in Uganda, even other articles people have posted allow me to relate and make me think this way. I'm still unsure how well intended Invisble Children and Jason Russel are because, they're using awful means to get their way. Appealing to emotions is something only horrible people would do, the end doesn't justify the means. I don't really care about the fad, what I do hate is people that really have the urge to help but they just don't know how and end messing up with stuff like this.
It's because of experience that I know it won't work, it won't even help and that's why I'm against it. I'd like to have more links to articles but I can only find stuff in spanish.
We have similar problems here, where I live. A small group of people that murder, kidnap and do horrible things. They also have kids in their "armies".
US sends money, people and military devices to us, so we can fight against those "terrorists" and drug dealers. I'm too lazy to do the math, but over the years US has sent and spent millions or billions "helping" us.
Our last president made a similar campaign to the one in the video. He said he was going to stop and end every insurgent group there was. Most people voted for him because of that, and he spent 4 years trying to do so, yet he failed. It was an idiotic promise, yet people are moronic and didn't understand it wouldn't happen. Still, he got reelected (he changed the constitution to do so) and for the next 4 years he kept on failing. It was impossible not to fail, it's hillarious how he expected to catch 20 guys that are running in the woods.
They did manage to kill some of the most important members of those terrorist groups, however it was irrelevant in our situation. Same would happen to the LRA. Bunch of leaders get killed, men who are next in rank will take leadership from then on and it's as if nothing had happened. They're still there, they're still doing horrible things and there's still a war between insurgents and the Colombian army-paramilitary. People keeps on dying everyday, but that doesn't seem to be a problem, even now government and most people are against peaceful talks to end the conflict.
However, it gets worse. As the article I posted earlier says 75% of US help goes to our ULTRA-right wing military forces. Most of our taxes go there as well, but only poor and middle class money because rich people don't pay taxes... actually they get most of the benefits, both from tax payers and US help. Why? Because the conflict is based on who owns the land. Old-insurgent groups were against just a few owning all land, those few with the help of the government, military and their own paramilitary groups started the war. Right now, it's completely different and they're just fighting to control lands and grow drugs, teams are the same, though. When the US sends help, they're helping those rich families, those drug dealers that have contacts with politicians, they're helping awful warlords that don't use guns to kill because they prefer chainsaws or public impaling... and they don't do it just to insurgents but to civilians.
Even if KONY 2012 movement is well intended, what they are going to cause is awful. I'm certain it will be the same in Uganda, even other articles people have posted allow me to relate and make me think this way. I'm still unsure how well intended Invisble Children and Jason Russel are because, they're using awful means to get their way. Appealing to emotions is something only horrible people would do, the end doesn't justify the means. I don't really care about the fad, what I do hate is people that really have the urge to help but they just don't know how and end messing up with stuff like this.
It's because of experience that I know it won't work, it won't even help and that's why I'm against it. I'd like to have more links to articles but I can only find stuff in spanish.