The Lord's Resistance Army and Joseph Kony

[Jaysyn]

This thread may be poorly placed because the topic is both political and religious.

I don't know how many of you have heard of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, so I'll give you a little background. Joseph Kony formed the Lord's Resistance Army in the 1980's. His aim is to overthrow the government in Uganda and replace it with his own government-one that would use the Ten Commandments as law. Since the inception of the LRA, Joseph Kony and his men have stolen and enslaved tens of thousands of children in Uganda and the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo). Some of the children are kept as sex slaves, others are used as child soldiers. He is one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. Strangely, I have yet to meet a person in "real life" who has heard of him.

http://www.nndb.com/people/398/000022332/

I find it disgusting that fluff like "10 ways to save at the supermarket" makes it to the news, but Kony is only known to a select group of curious people, humanitarians and politicians. I think my answer to the Fight Club question of what "celebrity" I would fight would have to be either Joseph Kony or Omar al-Bashir. Terrorists are celebrities, right?

Never heard of him either. DRC & Uganda must not have any oil. Also, they follow the same invso-sky daddy that our fearless leaders do.