(October 5, 2010 at 2:49 pm)Shell B Wrote: 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.
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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.
Yes, Kony's a poor excuse for a human being. Hitchens used the LRA as one of his many reasons why religion poisons everything. And I dare say few people I know in real life would know who he is. Ok, I know two people right off, but they are work colleagues and fit into the "curious people" category. Friends and family, though, forget about it.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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