Open Thread: Kony 2012
March 18th, 2012I haven’t watched this thing, and don’t plan to. From previous experience, when I see mainstream news talking about YouTube videos, and how “the blogosphere” has lost it’s mind over them, I just take a pass. (Also, I’m on limited bandwidth, so I wasn’t about to blow it on 30 minutes of video that looked like a waste of time to me.)
That said, many Cryptogon readers are interested in this, and the hive mind aspects of it. So, let it rip in comments below.
I generally go with Tony Cartalucci’s Land Destroyer. I rarely watch videos, preferring transcripts which often don’t exist. This is just a sampling from LD:
Globalists Pull Plug on Kony 2012 with Spectacular Crash & Burn
The ravaging of Africa will still proceed as scheduled.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/globalists-pull-plug-on-kony-2012-with.html
KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation
http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/kony-2012-state-propaganda-for-a-new-generation/
KONY 2012 Psy-Op Collapsing
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/kony-2012-psy-op-collapsing.html
The video has the dramatic soundtrack and of course the cuts and breaks just at the right times to evoke as much emotion as possible.
Bottom line is at the end of the movie its totally encourages and asked the viewers to support a military intervention… hahaha, surprise surprise.
And now it gets weird…
Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jason-russell-san-diego-invisible-children-kony-2012-142970255.html
“Jason Russell, 33, was allegedly found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to the SDPD.”
“Due to the nature of the detention, he was not arrested,” Lt. Andra Brown said. “During the evaluation we learned we probably needed to take him to a medical facility because of statements he was saying.”
I’d be interested to learn what odd statements he was making.