http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc THIS VIDEO WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING. DOLLARS HAS SO MANY MEMBERS AND WITH THAT AMOUNT WE CAN CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY TOGETHER. SO ALL MY FELLOW MEMBERS JOIN UP AND STAND FOR THIS. MAKE STAMPS OF "KONY 2012" OUT OF ANYTHING TELL YOUR FRIENDS TELL EVERYONE.

This video is what I just logged on to put on these boards, I am so glad that another dollar has seen this.
Without it even being on here. That means that we're already doing it, and spreading this.

KONY 2012

SPREAD THE WORD!! Let's final bring that-that monstrous blood thirsty man to justice!! I'M JOINING THE MOVEMENT!!
KONY 2012!!!

Dude. Learn how to use the off function of caps lock.
Also, there isnt a ton of dollars members theres at most 300, my guess is its really like 100 or less.

Kony 2012

what is this all about the video will not work

>>4 I'd say about 100 of us that are serious, maybe a few more that are just here ocasionally...

Wow i was just thinking of putting this on the dollars! It's great to see how many people are now awars of what evil joseph kony has done and perhaps now the children of Uganda will eventually be free from this oppressor.

i was just looking to see if someone made a topic about this

its a scam trust me its a scam

Wow... whether or not if this is the scam. The publicity idea about this nevertheless is a good thing. And it's important that such news be spread. Stopping Kony is one thing.

And the corporation does need money. How are they going to keep spreading the news on the websites. Websites need money to run. And how are they making their products? Money doesn't come from trees. They too have their limits. We, as people, should be proud that there is such an organization standing up to evil on such a level.

And that's my thought on the subject.

No, listen.

It's a scam.

Not intentionally, but the organization running it is damned ignorant and will end up doing more harm than good.

Consider this an update - I wasn't aware until now either.

>>12
This.
I first heard about Invisible Children back in 2005. Later that year, I ran across similar information revealing the problems with Invisible Children.

>>15 Thanks.

This is mostly a bandwagon issue - people are only just now finding out about things that happened 6-7 years ago, and making a fuss over it.

As my friend put it, it's like someone just now hearing about the 9/11 attacks, and showing up at New York to help clean up debris.

To answer all of this I suggest going with the flow, and take a look at what good can come of this. Also if you noticed that people have been taking their eye off sopa and pipa.Overall don't forget that Kony is a rebel and the Uganda military and U.S military will stop at nothing to hunt him down like the dog he is, so of course the would pose with guns. Furthermore, 32% goes to the people they are helping as for the other 68% goes to get them food, water, cloths, protection and of course the expenses get those items and themselves to get to Uganda and back. But as I said go with the flow agree or shut up, this will prevent less controversy.

Here's a news flash, this has been happening for a very long time now. Not just in the past ten years either there is way more to this than what the founder of this movement is saying. The LRA is not only in Uganda but all of Central Africa. They are not the only rebel group that does all those things either. Kony could have been stopped a long time ago with what he has done and this has even been taken up by NATO. There is enough to stop him but it's the kids under his control that stops us. It's like Sudam Husan or Usama Bin Laden that could have been stopped when Clinton was Pres. the US gov. had enough evidence to stop them but did we? This is a cycle that always will continue. In the past NINE years that guy, the one who started all this. Could have done a heck lot more but is just now really trying to do something. He has thousands of articles out there and I just heard about this last year because another student mentioned it.

>>18 Agreement.

In any case I am going to put his face in the next episode of Abridged + Vampire and links in the description so as a spoiler the release date is on April 20, when it all goes down.

>>18 NATO has taken him on, and the US as well, but when a sicko surrounds himself with kids... it's hard to kill him, altho they tried, and every such failed attempt ended with him and his army going on a rampage, killing, raping and kidnapping even more.

The picture is much much bigger then it's made out to be, he is someone that deserves the worst of death, but such is life in a lawless land.
The one thing that I dislike about all of this publicity tho, is that the group that you are advertising for The Invisible Children only give 33% out of what they get to actual humanitarian help to Africa, the rest goes for wages, movie making and publicity.

https://www.facebook.com/events/170928219691434/

Such a sad story! We've got to help, and yes I know that only 33% goes to africa so even if we just put up home-made posters or ones printed off the internet, we're still raising awarness. :C

its a sad story but everyone should look before they leap, get to know the group's background before actually giving money out blindly

>>23 ur right. Read this and ur going to see the other side of this campaing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in-Uganda-over-film.html
http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/8007/2012-03-08.html

bump

there is something going on april 20th . it is where we would be stganding out 4 one night covering evry inch of the area in posters standing against this man. but i am having truble finding a dayton group so any members that have information please let me know.

thihs even is something all the members of the dollars need to do

It's actually pretty genius to put the date on 4/20 since that is a national weed smoking day, the date in itself would stick into peoples heads and they would remember it. (literally if you didn't know look it up) so having the night thing would give a large group of people (stoners.) as well as active young people and various young adults to be able to really commit to something since, all people have known this feeling, the feeling that we can't do anything about our government and this helps on three major points. On Africa in general, on a war for children (always a strong point),and throughout the whole video they show the government saying no, but how we can stop them, which focus's in on the feeling of no say so over the government. The whole thing is actually something made up to help strengthen relationships between the people and the government, literally, this is all just mostly to give the U.S. government more power, since the people think there doing what they want them to do.

DarkAngel5 r u going to do the event??

>>1

First of all. We only hover around 200 or so members. The "Member count" in the corner goes up whenever theres a new IP address. So those of us with dynamic IPs, or who change computers a lot bring up the count.

The people who made Kony2012 spent 18.8 million dollars on marketing and only 3.3 million on stooping Kony, just last year alone. Theyre doing it for the publicity, and not to help the children-- Also, its Uganda's affair and not ours.

The Kony2012 this is bullshit. DOnt watse your money, becaus half of it they keep themselves. If you want to donate money or tell people about things, do so to these orginizations;

-Children Internation at http://www.children.org/AChildJustForYouSW3-ChildrenInternational.asp?WT.mc_id=S_Google&RS_ID=2&WT.srch=1

-PlanUSA! Sponser an African child at https://www.planusa.org/sponsorachild/sac_landing_index.php/id/1752191

-World Vision Sponsor a child now! at http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/pages/search-for-a-child?open&campaign=110719159&cmp=KNC-110719159&ttcode=helpchild

>>30 First of all...we have WAY WAY WAY WAY more than just a pitiful 200 members. Cuz who knows if people ALWAYS post when they come on here. So, dont go sayin that shit (totally unrelated)

okay gaiz...I think I understand this now. So if you really think about it...it's like another movement to rally public support for military intervention. Dis government sucks man they are playing the democracy card only to find alternative ways of imposing authoritarianism

>>7
I'm the latter

I say that we let them deal with their own problems. If someone else comes in and intervenes for them every time that something goes wrong they will never be able to do things for themselves.

Spread the Word.
See how like these chilren are suffering.
What happened if they came and took your loved ones? Stop being so selfish and help the human nature. These Children in Africa need our help to spread the word.

Fuck You America. Help the needed. ( /=A=)/

>>36 Why are you saying "Fuck You America"? We are constantly out there helping other people.
I can see how the children are suffering, I say that their parents and the children should get up and fight back as a whole. If my loved ones were taken, I'd grab my guns and go out on a vengeance streak and do what I can to get them back. I wouldn't ask for others to do it for me, I would do it myself. And its not being selfish at all, I'm simply saying that they need to learn to get up and take care of their own problems. If someone comes in and fixes every little mistake for them, how are they supposed to learn to fix the problems themselves?

Im not supporting it or against it, all im saying is everybody pretty much payed no mind to Hitler hoping it would resolve itself, didnt go to well. Im not saying interfering everytime is something we should do, like you said everybody needs to sort out their own problems but also everybody needs a helping hand now and then to

http://jezebel.com/5891269/think-twice-before-donating-to-kony-2012-the-meme-du-jour

Read it.

is anyone doing the event on the april 20th

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/kony-2012-filmmaker-arrested-san-diego-205649394.html
Well now...

>>41 I am done supporting him.

>>42 let's not forget about how they handle the money we throw at them. 70-80% goes to their own paychecks and the 20% they use for their cause goes to the Ugandan military which ALSO kills and rapes citizens. Dollars can make a change, but let's not waste change. There are more respectable groups out there which are wiser with our money.

The supporters of Kony 2012 tend to be people who haven't done any research. I'm just going to leave it at that.

I'm all over this too. But if you do really care, then why don't you try to be care everyday. With the peoples & environment around you. Not just when the Kony news show up.

For the Fuck heads that can't or wont read any of the posts before >>43. I made it a clear point a while ago there are reasons and trust me when I say the money is not going to waste, I do agree money dose go to their paycheck, but not most of it >>17. As for the military situation, we have no to some proof, but I can Photoshop info and pictures quite well too. I cant make it more clear if I wanted to. People need to think in three different mind sets to find the actual truth not the lies you hear on t.v or youtube(although there are some truths).

>>46 I did read through the posts. And it doesn't change anything. Name calling won't change the fact that the notion of "Kony 2012" is ridiculous. As Misuto stated (>>16), this happened years ago; furthermore, the footage of IC's 2012 documentary is mostly footage from years ago. The IC is corrupt, only donating a small portion of their money to the cause. They say that their money went to their documentary, but the documentary only shows footage from years ago, from their previous documentary (it's just a recycling of clips).

Additionally, they believe in giving the money to the Ugandan government, whose army is known to rape women and pillage villages. Both Kony's army and Uganda's are just as corrupt. The other thing IC supports is U.S. military intervention.

Military intervention? You're kidding, right? Name one instance where U.S. military intervention was successful. You can't. Because it doesn't work and it won't work and it never has.

In an ending statement, if you can't do the following, you probably shouldn't say anything:
a) pronounce Kony's name (hint: it's not how you think it's pronounced)
b) point to Uganda on the map.

>>47 Yes thank you for actually the first to listen, and am in agreement to some following statements. But you did fail at one thing I said, take a guess, come on guess, cant figure it out well you did well for your first and second attempt but you CAUSED A CONTROVERSY. To be blunt I been here long enough (like late August last year) to create and control this kind of problem. The U.S Military will do nothing yet because of the
current financial stand point, even with the help from the Invisible Children it's still a lot of money to run even a small platoon or battalion, I was in military training (USNSCC to be clear), this is one thing we have to learn to not be wasteful.
And don't test my ability's I can say the name just well and I am pretty sure Uganda is located in East Africa(Love the USNSCC).

I dont mean to be rude or disrespectful, but you need reminder that this site is for peace and solving controversy not to make it. And for anyone dose know me (ask Forte) I am pretty preemptive to get angry and and God knows what happens then. I made my fair share of mistakes on the BBS trust me. Everyone has my respect on this site (believe it or not), the only thing I ask is not to piss me off with people saying not to support a small organization (at least they are doing something) to help. Im not saying give them your money(no that be as retarded as hell, you kidding me I'm broke), what I am saying is support their cause with you voice and action.

After this post you can say what you like, Im not going to tell you what to do, I'm just saying there are people like me that will say the same.

Im soo in!

>>48 not everyone has your respect. Expecially not the people who dont know you, and find the way you defend a corrupted cause to be pathetic.

KONY 2012 IS BULLSHIT.

I refer back to my posts of >>30 and >>31.

Donate to THOSE charites if you honestly want to help african children.

Or, better yet, get off your moralfag ass and go to Uganda to help them yourself. Its a suicide mission, but hey. Youd be doing more than the Kony 2012 guys have EVER done for thise children.

Everything >>47 says is solid fact. Suck it up.

>>48 Are you seriously trying to assert authority because you're an "older" member? That's not how it works around here, so don't fucking try to say "Because I'm older I can do this". Fuck you. I could careless if I had your stupid respect or not.

On the contrary, we do have controversy on this site. We actually like to have debates on here if you haven't seen all the debate threads on Main and on Random. The fact of the matter is that Invisible Children has a shady past and most people won't trust them now, especially the news about the co-founder of the Invisible Children jacking off in public and vandalizing cars. Secondly, they aren't the only cause for helping children in Africa. It's okay to inform people about Kony and what he's been doing, but no one should just jump on the bandwagon because it's for a "good cause". Everyone should do research first and then decide what charity they want to donate to.

Well aren't you a conceited bastard? Why should everyone suddenly up and start taking only your feelings into consideration? If they don't feel like people should donate to Invisible Children, then they'll say so. No one's trying to target your feelings, so suck it up. It's up to the other people to listen to them or not. So don't start acting like a bigshot around here. It's not appreciated.

Oh shit, did some dumbfuck just to try to pull seniority to get their opinion taken seriously?

Welp, there goes any credibility you had.

AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>48

Burn In hell the lot of you, I am fully ignoring you now, I have been nice and respected you all but now the only person that can more than one side is the the bad guy, on top of that no one can read, no one can be respectful, and the point of this theard is ruined, so congrats you are all trolls.

>>55 you miss the point. point is that you flaunted around how long you have been here and said that it made you more credible. it does not. there is no difference in individuals based on how long they have been here, just how they act. you acted rather dumbly. they are not trolling just pointing out your undue air of superiority you tried to put on.

>>55

NOBODY GIVES A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK.

look everyone the Kony 2012 movement video whatever you want to call it has been controversial ever scence (forgive me if that is spelled wrong) people started watching it this has been happening for a long time some even say Kony is dead I am not sure but anyway the whole reason I am posting this reply is to remind people that we cant solve our problems with violent words, in the internet there is no seniority, and all people no matter if they are wrong or right deserve some sort of respect so people please calm down about this thread and even about Kony again hateful words are not the answer, and by the way I have read all the posts so don't pull that card thank you for listening

>>58
Respect is earned, not given. So I don't care if they are old, or new. If they haven't tried to obtain it, they don't deserve it. It's more so the case with a lot of newbies, though.

It's NOT because they're new. It's because most of them are fucking morons.

>>59
true but I don't mean in that sense I mean to give everyone a fair chance.

>>60
But they don't deserve it. Fair or not, they have to earn it. It doesn't work like that here. You don't just GET it, because it'd be fair.

Thiamor.

Shut the hell up.

You're missing the point and making yourself look like a faggot.

>>62
You know what? I'll just say fuck off.

Get this through that fucking thick head of yours. I'll speak when I want to speak. No matter what it's about.

So get that fucking mentality, that you can somehow MAKE me shut up, out of that GOD DAMN head of yours. We'd all get along a lot better, if you'd realize that. It won't change.

Enjoy.

>>63 it wont change the fact that he will try to stop annoying people like yourself and yes there is a right to free speech in most of the 1st world countrys ... it also comes with the freedom of withholding speech ... just wish the latter would be used as much as the Former

>>64

Unless I break the rules, they can't withhold my speech.
I may be ANNOYING, but I'm still following the rules of this site.

I'm just very opinionated. Which if they don't like it, they have to deal with it.

WE HAVE TO STOP KONY!! Im sorry but I try my best to make the world a better place (Its not working). But we can help these african children! People that dont care, just know thats your problem, not ours! Umm... so yeah. SAVE THEM!

Are you on the bandwagon? ^

>68
i agree, this has been going on for 30 years and now people pay attention because of a video on frickin youtube.

this shit again.

http://www.kony2012-is-a-scam.org/ JUST SAYING.

1. Kony hasn't even been seen in like 4 years

2. In his video he said the U.S. gov't wouldn't do anything which is bullshit. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have taken steps to aid in Kony's arrest, in cluiding finicially, and logistically aiding the Ugandan government.

3. The ugandan government is even offering a $1000 dollar reward for information leading to Kony's whereabouts and capture. If he really wanted to help, this is what he should focus on. I understand spreading awareness is good, but teenagers in America don't know anything about Kony's location...

>>72 now, now, you're twisting the facts.
1. That's true, but the LRA is known to still exist and continue his deeds
2. The video said that, but later it showed how it influenced government officials.
3. thats because the LRA is not in Uganda. its in central africa now.

>>73 I'm not trying to twist the facts, just share some things I've learned through my own resarch. I don't buy into anything without doing some research.

Kony 2012 is full of lies don't support a flawed campaign that calls for US military intervention.

>>75 So what sense was there in bumping the thread supporting it, just to discourage it?

we should all give it a try

Since this is somehow still at the top....

>>77
Doing it wrong.

My mother once told me a story about how how the people in Peru were being killed and raped by Chile. They were helpless untill one day an Admiral of the United States Navy came across on the ship and saw what was happening. He then took action on his own; he told Chile that if they continue their actions they would go to war with the US. Chile backed off and Peru was thankful to them. I would be honored to be deployed with the US troops in Africa to stop this madness. I want to take real action to these people and although I am unable to do anything at this time, hopefully in 2 years or so I will be there. As a Dollar and as a human.

>>79 Wow dude, thats deep :) good luck

bump

My mom was born in South Africa during the apartheid. and to make things worse, she's half british, so people always treated her horribly everywhere. She told me all these stories about everything she's seen and everything she's been through. We are also reading " A long way home; memoir of a boy soldier" by Ishmeal Beah. It all makes you realize how lucky you are.

>>47 Actually, there was one intervention of the United States that was successful. It was the Persian Gulf War. You know, the early 1990's where Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait? The Kuwaiti government asked the US government to intervene and help repel the Iraqi Army. The U.S intervened and pushed the Iraqi Army back across the borders and secured Kuwait. I believe it was the only instance of successful intervention. There might be a few small others, but they escape me. :)

Gotta give the US one point for successful intervention. Better than 0. lol

my school JUST started putting up posters for this u.u and like..they r just telling us about it, not doing anything.. i wish i could do more to help :L

I walk around school and find one poster with Kony. Only one cheaply printed poster on a wide large brick wall of the whole more than 300 population of kids in my school.

Never saw a single poster anywhere in my town after "Cover the Night"

Have you researched Kony himself and where he is? He isn't even in Uganda anymore and hasn't been since 2006. You should really research the flaws in Kony 2012 the director was even detained recently for...reasons. Also a lot of the Ugandans disapprove of making Kony famous they say it's like celebrating their suffering.