Kony 2012

1) The filmmaker of the video"It was shown in recent news that the "leader" of the invisible children foundation was found in public, touching himself and disturbing the peace"http://www.huffingtonpost.com...^The amount of pressure and media exposure that he received when his video went viral put an immense amount of strain on his body. The amount of shock he had may attribute to why he behaved so erratically, but to claim that he should not be trusted because he did this is unsubstantiated because Jason Russel does not have a history of doing any of these kind of things prior to his new found success. Also consider that he wasnt the only person putting effort into helping fight the LRA. For years now reporters such as Bryan Jennings and Anderson Cooper, and a long list of others, have tried to bring light to the same thing before but had limited success in arousing public interest. One independent reporter makes one video about it though and suddenly it captured the attention of everyone, but you cant disapprove of this campaign because of one person who reported about it because many other well respected journalists have been advocating the same thing for years. 2) Misleading"he LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) was formed to combat the "ethnic cleansing" of countess minority tribes, Yes, but that was under the leadership of Alice Lakwena. However when Joseph Kony seized power he devoted the LRA to trying to take over Uganda after a weak government was formed back in 1989...http://villageofhopeuganda.com..."In 1989, after former president Milton Obote’s government was overthrown, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Koney, initiated an armed struggle against current President Yoweri Museveni’s government."So the LRA started out to combat abuses from the Uganda government, but that was under a different leader, and the LRA under Kony has adopted a more sinister and wicked agenda"And, the LRA is not completely composed of young boys"No but the LRA does have a lot of young boys forced to fight for them.http://www.irt.org.uk...http://www.thesunchronicle.com...", and the majority are not forced into the war, either"Due to years of no results in conquering Uganda Kony has now been forced to use what he has just to his retain power rather than try to wage war against Uganda. This means that they are not forced into war but they are forced to serve as his soldiers and protect him. 3) A possible military draft"Third, who can recount what took place between the years 1939-1945? In order to ensure that the U.S. Military had enough servicemen, they put the draft into action. See the similarity in this?"No, because back then the US was watching Europe and Asia fall under the hands of dictators with millions of people at their disposal killing millions of others without giving a second thought about it. This time though only one dictator is hiding in the jungles with a couple thousand conscripted soldiers fighting against other nations who have already been fighting Kony for decades. Now keep in mind that the video only advocates the US continue its limited role in the affair until Kony is killed, stopped, or captured. So to summarize, the maker of Kony 2012 is not insane, the LRA is an evil group who does commit terrible and well documented things, and the fight against Kony will not turn into another Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan because the video is only asking for people to support the government intervening in this affair, not invading the area with thousands and thousands of soldiers....