This is what sort of sparked it all which is not good. The video itself is a good piece of emotional porn but thatâs about it. Itâs honestly NOT worth the 30 minutes when you find out somethings about the organization that is doing this [Invisible Children].
First of all, the guy who made that film getâs paid $90,000 a year. Thatâs for him and his family. This does not include him paying costs for film equipment, video editting software, nor does it cover travel or accomodations whilst in anywhere else. Those are all covered under the ludicrous budgets that the Invisible Children organization actually deal with. Letâs go to that now. Here are some expenses from CharityNavigator.:
Compensation of Leaders | % of Compensation relative to amount of money made by IC | Title
$88,241 | 0.99% | Ben Keesey - CEO
$89,669 | 1.00% | Jason Russell - Co-Founder/Filmmaker
$84,377 | 0.94% | Laren Poole - Co-Founder/Filmmaker
Total Contributions: $10,334,060
Program Service Revenue: $3,423,351
Total Primary Revenue: $13,757,411
TOTAL REVENUE: $13,765,180
Program Expenses: $7,163,384
Administrative Expenses: $1,444,570
Fundraising Expenses: $286,678
TOTAL FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES: $8,894,632
Payments to Affiliates $0 Excess (Or deficit) for the year: $4,870,548
As if that isnât bad enough, theyâve refused to Co-operate with the Better Business Bureau, Their transparancy rating is fairly low on Charity Navigator, and allegations of fraud. HuffingtonPost has an article on it here.
Besides, they make a fairly large point about sending money to the Ugandan Military. This is a big no no for a couple of reasons. First of all, Kony isnât even in Uganda. Funding a military that has no real authority over another country to LOOK in other countries, is a moronic idea to begin with. Secondly, the Ugandan military is already using this as an excuse to enter other countries and exploit resources from surrouding areas. The Government of Uganda is full of criminals that are worse than Kony himself. Not to mention the bloody PRESIDENT of Uganda is responsible for millions of deaths. Then youâve got allegations coming out that Kony is already dead. The LRA (Konys ragtag bunch of assholes) isnât that large, or all that active.
The worst thing about Invisible Children (In my opinion) is that they lobbies for DIRECT MILITARY INTERVENTION IN AFRICA. After all of the terrorist hunts in the Middle East, and having troops stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, donât you think that the people would have learned by now that having troops in another country to hunt one asshole isnât exactly the best idea? Especially when some of the Republicans believe that invading Iran is a fairly good idea at the moment. There are SERIOUS issues with this group, issues that people are overlooking. I will admit that at first I was already on Twitter and ready to bitch at people about the injustice thatâs being served in other countries and then I decided to look into the organization. The information is there, and willing, but people are fearful to even look. Fearful, lazy, or just swept up by the movement. Injustice exists in the world. It is damn stupid, and it sucks ass, but thatâs the nature of this planet at the moment. Humanity, since rising from the primordial ooze, has killed people over far less than anything you could imagine. Then thereâs the fact that if Kony is alive, and the ICC, or International Criminals Court, manages to put him on trial, whatâs it going to achieve? Numerous war criminals have stood trial before the ICC. This isnât a game of chess. You donât topple a pawn and move on. The pawns replicate. Itâs like fighting a hydra. If you slice off one head, more are going to pop up in itâs place. You remove one player, and 10 others will appear. Hell, thereâs a case to be made that awareness driven ngos perpetuate the current state of afafairs and are anintergral part of the current system of global unfairness. They ovver placebos for guilty consciences and as such, they donât change anything. If you think of large entites such as Global Corporations, conglomorates and powerful nation states that capitalize on injustice, corruption and disorganization and exploit the poor for their resources and manpower, the best thing that could happen to them are programs such as this. Thereâs a lot of reasons why Invisible Children has a good idea of what theyâre doing, but FAR too much on the opposite sides of the scales to tip myself (and no doubt others) into not bothering with this group and itâs practices.
Information retrieved by use of google, and a variety of different comments spread across Kony2012 post comment fields.
Last post that I will be making about Kony, hopefully.
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