KONY 2012

"Who is Joseph Kony?

Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons.
The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.

What is the goal of KONY 2012?

Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.

We are taking action to ensure these two things:

1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.

Why are we making Joseph Kony "famous"?

Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.
Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished."
                  
                -http://www.kony2012.com/ (Taken from said site)

Now all of you have probably heard of KONY 2012? Correct? Well if you haven't, read the text above or go to Youtube and search "KONY 2012 trailer" which will bring you to the video that has been created to raise awarness of what he and the LRA have been doing.

I agree  completely that this is our buisness. We should help other countries that need our help, not smudge their problems into the backround. But heres one question for all of you that just recently learned about Kony. Why havn't we done anything about it before now? Kony has been committing these crimes since 1987 and we've only JUST started to take intrest. So now I ask you this, why is it now such a big intrest?

Is it because no one realized the horrendous things he was doing?
No one felt the need to do anything about it?
Or because we have nothing better to talk about?

What's you opinion on the subject? Leave me a comment or send me an email at ginger301@live.ca!

-Wrenna xoxo

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Virtual Warrior World

So today I was cruising the internet with my buds when a certain site caught my eye. Yes, thats right! A site you would know of as VWW. One of the world most popular and friendliest Warrior Cats site.

Or is it?

I recently found out that a full site cyberbullying is just taking effect on one of their member that we will be calling Storm. The reason for this is because of a feud that has been going on since November between Storm and another member we will be calling Wonderland. Is it really fair for a whole site to start hasseling this one member because of a private tiff?

My sources have informed me that said member Wonderland, was going to have a baby, but miscarried. According to the threads I was so lucky to read, Storm said that she was pregnant the day that Wonderland found out she wasn't. This was rude and wrong and mean. But does that really give other people the right to make a whole site turn against one person? If the site AND the staff all start cyberbullying this one member, does it really make them any better then Storm who was mean to Wonderland? In my mind it doesn't. It makes them just as mean and rude. Especially the staff who should know better then to start hating on someone just because they were mean to someone else.

To all you parents and kids out there that thought VWW was a safe, kind and fun environment, you are very wrong. This site is nothing more than the media is. Hating on someone for something they did. So I ask you readers, whether you would let YOUR children or YOUR friends play on a site that's staff and members will gang up on one person over something that should have been private.

Should we have the right to put someone through emotional pain over something that will most likely be forgotten in a week or two? The answer my friends, is no. We do not have the right to hurt ANYBODY. No matter what they say or what they do. 

-Wrenna xoxo