So, I just recently watched a video that someone had posted on Facebook.
I almost didn't take the time to watch it,
because it's late,
I'm tired,
and
it's 29:59 minutes long.
(that's a long video)
Yes, it was quite long.
But it was worth it.
Here's what it was about,
this was a video about Joseph Kony.
Any idea who that is?
Yeah, I didn't either.
Turns out he's this super nasty war criminal in Africa.
He is the leader of the LRA,
the Lord's Resistance Army,
The LRA is, as I understand it, a bunch of
murders,
kidnappers,
rapists,
etc,
who use the Lord as a their reasoning to why they are doing what they do.
Kony, claims that God sent His spirits to communicate this mission to him,
and that He must, under fulfillment of the Ten Commandments, see it through.
And what are they doing you may ask?
They are kidnapping young boys to enlist as soldiers,
kidnapping young girls to use as sex slaves, and rewards,
murdering innocent people,
etc
(typically using the kidnapped boys to kill their own families).
And he's been doing this for TWENTY-SIX years.
You may be wondering (as am I) how on earth this could be going on for so long?
Because no one knew.
All this was happening in Uganda, the Congo, South Sudan, and Sudan.
That's all the way in Africa.
They don't have toilets,
or floors,
or clean water,
all they have is AIDS,
Malaria,
and a whole host of other life threatening diseases.
Life is just hard there, right?
That's just the way it is, right?
There's really nothing I can do about it, right?
WRONG.
Yes, life is difficult in Africa.
It is a continent, full of many countries that lack many of the luxuries that we have in our country.
And yes, they are luxuries.
Very few of the things we "need" are actually needed to sustain our lives.
Don't get me wrong,
I love my IPhone,
Facebook,
Wendy's,
Wal-Mart,
and everything else that is available to me in this country.
The United States is an INCREDIBLE country.
Not only for what we have,
but also for who we are.
The citizens of the USA have proven over the years to be people who stand up for what is RIGHT.
Who believe in FREEDOM.
And who FIGHT to protect it.
So now, how does all of this come together?
Well, allow me to share.
This year, 2012, Joseph Kony WILL be arrested for his crimes.
He WILL be brought to JUSTICE.
And he WILL have to answer for his ACTIONS.
This year, 2012.
Great, that's awesome, but how does that affect me?
He will only be brought to justice if the people DEMAND it.
The US government has sent troops to aid in the capture of Kony,
but if the end isn't in sight,
it's no longer in the country's "best interest" to stay.
So it is our job to MAKE it the country's best interest.
We have to DEMAND IT.
It's our turn to make this real.
It's our turn to stop him.
It's our turn to save lives.
We can do it.
We have to do it.
This video explains it far better than I can,
I only learned about all of this just recently,
and it sort of makes me sick knowing how happily I've lived in ignorance.
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