BBB issues warning about organization behind Kony 2012 video

WPXI ^ | March 13, 2012 | Robin Taylor

[rightwingintelligentsia]

PITTSBURGH -- Kony 2012 has become the most viral video in history, topping 100 million views in six days, but the video about Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has also led to a backlash against the organization behind the 30-minute documentary.

There's no doubt Kony is a bad man, killing tens of thousands of people, and using a child army to displace more than a million others.

Critics are now focusing on the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, which produced the documentary. The charity is also being scrutinized for what they do with the money they raise.

NBC is reporting that one-third goes to marketing, another third to administrative costs, with less than a third making it to actual programs.

Now, the Better Business Bureau is speaking out, saying for six years Invisible Children has ignored requests for a charitable review.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not nearly as concerned about the scam as I am the International Crisis Group and their attempts to get the USA involved in a local African issue.

[combat_boots]

The ICG isn’t after Uganda. They’re after Israel and the US.

Oh, hi. I am simply agreeing with you.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

A group of my fellow (female) teachers have enthusiastically signed this petition and chosen to donate to this "cause". They approached me about donating, and I said that I would consider it. After extensive research on this topic, I found that this is a moot point anyhow as the Ugandan government is complicit in Joseph Kony's recruiting of children for his militia movement. I politely informed one of the "stable" teachers that this move, while noble in its motive, would ultimately be a moot point. Her response was less than "friendly", so to speak. (I only mention they are women because of the propensity of women (in general) to be swayed by emotionally stirring "documentaries" as such, and the fact that none of the male teachers approached chose to donate)

I guess that emotion-driven "movements" like this seem to ease liberal "white guilt" to some degree...

I am surrounded by mind-numbed robots...

[Pan_Yans Wife]

http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/movie/

Has anyone seen this movie? Has anyone heard of preacher and his orphanage?

[bmwcyle]

Kony is possibly dead. This movement is a hoax.

[ILS21R]

It’s just a scam to fill the kool-aid bowl for 2012.

Obama sent 100 American military advisers to Uganda in last October. The following month the Kony film started production. Coincidence? Now get the spoon and stir until the hype reaches a maximum.

This October you can bet that Obama will once again be pulled off the golf course to watch the “Obama got Kony” show. Yea! Obama saved the invisible children. Whee.... 4 more years.

Unfortunately, following Uganda customs, Kony’s body was immediately thrown into a volcano before any photos could be taken.

Now drink up.

[ILS21R]

Oh, I almost forgot.

Marketing and administrative costs = Obama reelection fund.

[cripplecreek]

I know you of all people are aware of what’s going on.

[combat_boots]

Can’t you just see Putin or the ChiComs just jumping for joy at the thought of the ICG coming into Russia or Communist China for some reason? Now wouldn’t that be a thought for a massive takedown? Putin would be out there firing missiles and AK-47s his own self.

[Stormdog]

International Crisis Group.

Guess who sits on the Board of Directors. Yup, George Soros. That’s all I need to know.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

——Guess who sits on the Board of Directors. Yup, George Soros. That’s all I need to know-——

Woooooooooooooowwwww.

[dfwgator]

Kony 2012 = Goldstein 1984

[Whenifhow]

Kony 2012 video inspires House resolution to go after warlord

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kony-2012-video-inspires-house-resolution-warlord-article-1.1038813?localLinksEnabled=false

[dfwgator]

Of course we saw this before with “Milosevic 1999”, paint the guy as the biggest monster, since Hitler, to justify bombing Serbia, and helping Islamo Narco-Terrorists.

[Whenifhow]

Another thread and it links Soros to LRA

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858415/posts?page=29#29

NOTE from a different source:
http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/2012/03/youth-movement-promotes-us-military.html

Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud and voter manipulation in a recent charity contest sponsored by Chase Bank and Facebook. The group’s Co-Founder and President, Laren Poole addressed the International Criminal Court in 2009 alongside Aryeh Neier, President of George Soros’ pro-war Open Society Institute.

Pictures of Aryeh Neier and Laren Poole on website below at the Conference on International Criminal Justice in 2009.

http://www.internationalcriminaljustice.net/experience_the_conference.php

[faucetman]

“There's no doubt Kony is a bad man”. Define bad. This is a WAR. Bad things happen in a war.

Almost all the coverage about this is biased. I read a long article about this. I commend to all who haven't read it. Be informed, don't be a (knee) jerk.

www.smallarmssurveysudan.org/pdfs/HSBA-SWP-8-LRA.pdf

(snip)
“It is extremely difficult to obtain factual information about the LRA. Much of the existing voluminous research from northern Uganda is agenda-driven or fails to account for the overlap between LRA and civilian grievances and
perspectives. Because research in northern Uganda and, to some extent, southern Sudan requires the cooperation of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), information is often coloured by the UPDF’s own perspective.

This report is based on focused fieldwork in northern Uganda and southern Sudan in 2005–07. The author conducted face-to-face interviews with a range of Ugandan and Sudanese civilians and community leaders. The military
was not present on these occasions and the interviewees were assured of anonymity. Members of the military from both countries, Sudanese politicians, and LRA representatives, including the LRA high command—specifically
Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti—were also interviewed.
In describing the history of the LRA/M–UPDF conflict in Sudan and Uganda, this report seeks a balance that has been sorely absent in previous media and
academic accounts. That the LRA/M can be seen as having arisen in pursuit of legitimate grievances—which at times have been shared by many communities in northern and eastern Uganda—should in no way be interpreted as a
defence of the group’s methods and tactics. Part of the story of the conflict, however, hinges on the use of propaganda and access to information; accordingly,
this report attempts to separate fact from fiction.”

[bmwcyle]

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