http://www.amazon.com/First-Kill-Your-Family-Resistance/dp/1556527993 - First Kill Your Family "For more than twenty years, beginning in the mid-1980s, the Lord’s Resistance Army has ravaged northern Uganda. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered, and thousands more mutilated and traumatized. At least 1.5 million people have been driven from a pastoral existence into the squalor of refugee camps."
No, Maris, you are making the same mistake Rush Limbaugh did - it has the word Lord so it must be Christian. In fact LRA is not and has no backing from any Christian group, conservative, liberal, apolitical, Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Latter Day Saints, name it. I'm not defending Christianity, just facts. I can't comment on the vid since I have not viewed it. Several months ago, Pres. Obama announced support to forces in 4 countries that are trying to root out LRA and Rushbo went on a rant about how the "muslim" president was attacking Christians. A 5 minute Google search would have shown what LRA is. I guess he didn't do his homework in high school either, that's why he is so furious about educated women!
It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the Holy Spirit, which the group believes can represent itself in many manifestations. Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of of traditional African religion, Acholi nationalism, and Christianity, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.
If you believe Alex Jones this is a ploy to eventually kick the Chinese out of Africa. It's about control, oil, and minerals. Apparently....
I was at Tualatin HS today for Opening Day ceremonies for the softball/baseball season. Kony 2012 crap was painted all over the sidewalk and a few walls in graffiti. Nobody with me knew what it was. I said it's the latest Free Tibet thing for young people, except this one includes sending US troops to Africa to stop some guy name Kony who was big in 2003 from making kids fight. Everybody pretty much laughed, shook their heads, and said "kids". The only thing not funny was the vandalism.
[video=youtube;1ddYeKf6E6Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ddYeKf6E6Y[/video] ...or this?! [video=youtube;7DO73Ese25Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DO73Ese25Y[/video]
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the vandals couldn't point out Uganda on a map. Or even Vermont. And it's a cherry soda, not egg cream, you whippersnapper! [video=youtube;ARXfQzfl9EQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXfQzfl9EQ[/video]
There are lots of outlets that debunk the entire Kony thing. As a fence-riding-no-decision-making-white boy that lives in a forever blue state even though I've historically leaned to the right - this Kony thing seems very contrived and odd.
