{"id":7159,"date":"2012-03-08T22:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lolr.de\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:45:03","slug":"anti-joseph-kony-video-goes-viral-as-hell-but-the-organization-behind-it-is-sort-of-shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lolr.de\/2012\/03\/08\/anti-joseph-kony-video-goes-viral-as-hell-but-the-organization-behind-it-is-sort-of-shady\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Joseph Kony Video Goes Viral As Hell, But The Organization Behind It Is Sort Of Shady"},"content":{"rendered":"
The organization behind Kony 2012 \u2014 Invisible Children Inc. \u2014 is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called \u201dmisleading,\u201d \u201cnaive,\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of \u201cmanipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.\u201d They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n
Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won\u2019t let their financials be independently audited. That\u2019s not a good thing. In fact, it\u2019s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you\u2019re sending them is going.<\/p>\n
By IC\u2019s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) \u2014 which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can\u2019t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n
And as far as what they do with that money:<\/p>\n
The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government\u2019s army and various other military forces. Here\u2019s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is \u201cbetter equipped than that of any of the other affected countries\u201d, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn\u2019t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n