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In reply to the discussion: Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD (Public masturbation and vandalism spree) [View all]Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)First flag, Kony hasn't operated in Northern Uganda in almost 5 years.
It also seems that a majority of the charity's funds go for expenses and administration. And their main goal is fundie evangelizing.
Kony, and his LRA are indeed butchers, but the atrocities committed by the Ugandan Army seem to make them look like amateurs.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/03/11/invisible-children-funded-by-antigay-creationist-christian-right/
Posted by B. E. Wilson at 12:49 pm
March 11, 2012
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Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right
[update: Why does it matter, if Invisible Children was funded by controversial donors? Two reasons - one, we can assume those donors thought IC aligned with their agenda - which is antagonistic to LGBT rights. Two, it fits an emerging pattern in which Invisible Children appears selectively concerned about crimes committed by Joseph Kony but indifferent to crimes, perhaps on a bigger scale, committed by their provisional partner, the government of Uganda - whose president shot his way into power using child soldiers, before Joseph Kony began using child soldiers. Like Kony, the government of Uganda was also indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2005, for human rights abuses and looting in the DRC Congo (PDF file of ICC ruling against Uganda). Like Kony, the Ugandan army preys upon civilians and is currently accused, by Western human rights groups, with raping and looting in the DRC Congo, where it is hunting for Kony. In the late 1990s, Uganda helped spark a conflict in DRC Congo that, by the middle of the next decade it is estimated, had killed up to 5.4 million civilians, more than any conflict since World War Two. See appended "Resource" section for more information. For a very different perspective on IC, Kony, and Northern Uganda, see this editorial by Milton Allimadi, of the NYC-based Blackstar news service]
What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting Intelligent Design, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an avenger of blood and a terrorist, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Ugandas notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?
990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children, and 990s from its major donors, tell a story thats jarringly at odds with the secular, airbrushed, feelgood image the nonprofit has cultivated.
Among the tens of millions of people who have watched Invisible Childrens KONY 2012 viral video, including Oprah Winfrey a dedicated supporter of LGBT rights who also has given $2 million dollars to Invisible Children, how many were aware of ICs extensive financial ties to far-right fundamentalism, including major funders of the mounting global war on gay rights ? IC doesnt go out of its way to advertise these things.
(snip) much more at link