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Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)
24. All groups aren't quite what they seem.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 06:31 PM
Mar 2012

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
comments66 COMMENTS
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 Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?

990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children, and 990s from its major donors, tell a story that’s jarringly at odds with the secular, airbrushed, feelgood image the nonprofit has cultivated.

Among the tens of millions of people who have watched Invisible Children’s 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 IC’s extensive financial ties to far-right fundamentalism, including major funders of the mounting global war on gay rights ? IC doesn’t go out of its way to advertise these things.

(snip) much more at link

33 is a bit old for a drunken, public masturbation and vandalism spree IMO slackmaster Mar 2012 #1
All part of god's plan. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #2
He could have at least waited for St. Paddy's Day, when that kind of behavior is expected. Fuddnik Mar 2012 #3
Slack...it WAS Pacific Beach, remember. Joanie Baloney Mar 2012 #14
I did live in PB when I was 22. Apartment on Grand Ave., a few doors up from the Hare Krisna temple slackmaster Mar 2012 #17
You're never too old for drunken public masturbation, with a bit of vandalism Boudica the Lyoness Mar 2012 #43
I'll put on tinfoil and remark that the timing of this is interesting. nt Mojorabbit Mar 2012 #4
Can I borrow your hat? joeybee12 Mar 2012 #9
it sounds utterly ridiculous, too Skittles Mar 2012 #11
I doubt they could fabricate this nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #15
Either he didn't do any and the Feds are trying to frame and smear him or Son of Gob Mar 2012 #46
TMZ got the tape. LisaL Mar 2012 #48
I'm sure they do, public masturbation usually has witnesses Son of Gob Mar 2012 #50
It is interesting. Very strange, considering the recent campaign to get Kony. sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #32
I guess this is the downside of having your video go massively viral. Skinner Mar 2012 #5
LOLz Drunken Irishman Mar 2012 #6
Maybe he figures that once Kony's gone XemaSab Mar 2012 #7
Shit. I'm in the middle of doing just that, as I type on my phone....... hold on.... OK there. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2012 #8
Not a that big of a deal in my opinion, but he may want to get checked out. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #10
I bet he claims it was a Lunesta hang-over. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #12
Oh I think he already got checked out CreekDog Mar 2012 #21
Sounds more unionworks Mar 2012 #13
Official statement from article nobodyspecial Mar 2012 #16
Whenever I'm hungry and thirsty, I have two choices-- eat and drink, or masturbate and vandalize. Ian David Mar 2012 #27
If I put 10,000 micrograms of LSD unionworks Mar 2012 #28
And you really believe this is the most likely explanation? n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #38
I believe unionworks Mar 2012 #61
Do you think that maybe they used Chemtrails? n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #63
Blow it out your wazoo unionworks Mar 2012 #66
And maybe THIS person was also dosed with LSD by his political enemies... Ian David Mar 2012 #65
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Ah, the old if you don't believe the public masturbater Son of Gob Mar 2012 #70
Kony and anyone who supports him unionworks Mar 2012 #71
NOBODY here supports Kony. Not a single person. Nobody. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #77
my posts stand unionworks Mar 2012 #72
Not for long Son of Gob Mar 2012 #74
Dehydration can affect people's mental functioning quite severely daleo Mar 2012 #75
Damn I lost the bet.. kirby Mar 2012 #18
"Who here hasn't ever gone on a drunken, public masturbation and... SamG Mar 2012 #19
Meh - Thatcher's PR man did it , was knighted by her, and made a lord by Blair muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #23
An Evangelical with a sex hang-up? How RARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SamG Mar 2012 #25
When Jesus says masturbate in public and vandalize cars, I'm sure He has a reason. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #26
This is very unfortunate, and I wonder what... CoffeeCat Mar 2012 #20
All groups aren't quite what they seem. Fuddnik Mar 2012 #24
Yes...there's been some evidence of what you are posting... KoKo Mar 2012 #31
The link I posted for the Alternet story has links to about 20 other sources at the bottom. Fuddnik Mar 2012 #35
This man and his organization are a fraud. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #37
IBTMTCSF.. frylock Mar 2012 #22
People assume the cause means the guy's above reproach instead of incredibly sketchy Posteritatis Mar 2012 #30
IOWD's..latching on to a cause against an Evil Person can make Big Money? KoKo Mar 2012 #33
Sounds like he was dosed with something. bitchkitty Mar 2012 #29
And I might add... CoffeeCat Mar 2012 #44
The basic story of Kony is true; the question is whether 'Invisible Children' are the right people muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #52
Sounds like somebody had fun BadGimp Mar 2012 #34
I just have to ask: JoeyT Mar 2012 #36
Maybe his masturbation WAS the vandalizing? n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #39
Ian...it's helpful you can keep sense of humor about this.. KoKo Mar 2012 #40
I have no sympathy for this asshole. He wants to kill all the gay people in Uganda. Fuck him. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #53
(I just read this on Alternet): Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right KoKo Mar 2012 #58
that explains why kids I know at two different parochial schools know about Kony wordpix Mar 2012 #73
Was he masturbating, or having sex with invisible children? saras Mar 2012 #41
LOL!!!!!! n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #55
Cocaine is one helluva drug DBoon Mar 2012 #42
Could he be bipolar and in a manic phrase? karynnj Mar 2012 #45
It could be temporal lobe epilepsy. Ian David Mar 2012 #56
Obviously southerncrone Mar 2012 #47
The 12 second video that TMZ posted is sad and scarey Catherine Vincent Mar 2012 #49
Wife blames exhaustion for 'irrational' behavior by 'Kony 2012' filmmaker Major Nikon Mar 2012 #51
Jason Russell THE NAKED MELTDOWN Caught on Tape Ian David Mar 2012 #54
I can't laugh at that no matter how hard I try. I had a friend taken in on a 5150 hold in December. slackmaster Mar 2012 #59
Yikes!! Ruby the Liberal Mar 2012 #62
Here it is from another angle... Ian David Mar 2012 #64
Wrong bag of marshmallows.... Evasporque Mar 2012 #57
The money he's minting must be a real turn-on Politicub Mar 2012 #60
never thought unionworks Mar 2012 #69
Apparently the guy who's Co-Founder of "Kony 2012" is a Christian Fundie Anti Gay Activist... KoKo Mar 2012 #76
Never thought I would see a con-artist exploiting a real human tragedy to make money... Ian David Mar 2012 #78
Because having a problem with a "charity" which steals 80% of its donations is supporting Kony? (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #79
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