KONY 2012
Imagine a world in which your son, daughter, sister, or brother was taken from their home, sold into sex slavery, given a gun and told to fight for nothing but the power of one man. This is the world that we live in in the year 2012. Joseph Kony is the leader of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Uganda. Kony goes from house to house, kidnapping young children, and turning them into child soldiers, forcing them to murder their families and follow him. The young boys are given guns to fight with, while the girls are brutally raped and sold into sex slavery. He is recognized as the world's worst criminal, and needs to be stopped. He has taken over 30,000 children over the years, and brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and villages, and those he does not kill are mutilated. Why has a man so Hitler-esque never been stopped in the 25 years he has been in power? Is it because since it isn't in the United States, politicians think it doesn't matter? In reality, we are all one world, and no one person is more or less important than any other one. In order for Kony to be captured, the governments of the world have to know that we care. In the words of the Beatles, "I'm talking about a revolution."
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