RSS Feed
April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Where in the first film there was a primary-school presentation of a deeply
complex issue, the new video is couched in nuance and deploys dialogue more
commonly heard in a United Nations workshop – displacement, rehabilitation,
post-conflict – than in a YouTube smash.
Invisible Children, the San Diego-based charity behind the films, has made an
earnest effort to respond piecemeal to most of the criticism it faced
following the runaway success of Kony2012: Part I.
Now most of the voices heard and faces seen in the new film, released on
Thursday, are Ugandan and Congolese, not American. Most of the locations are
in east and central Africa, not California, Boston or New York.
The film-makers now explicitly state that there is peace in northern Uganda,
and that Kony’s army, such as it is, today roams the Democratic Republic of
Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
They concede that Kony has “fewer than 250” fighters. That he is
weakened, and that Uganda itself – through military action and
locally-directed peacebuilding – is largely responsible for pushing the LRA
out of its territory six years ago.
Quoting Invisible Children’s impressive and impassioned Uganda director, Jolly
Okot, the new film talks of the “complexity” of the issue, and how
years of efforts to bring Kony in from the jungle have failed.
But in one of the most telling lines in the new film, Mrs Okot says: “Anyone
who comes up with a formula how Kony can be stopped, they are welcome,
because the children have to come back home”.
This points to a key flaw of the first film – that Invisible Children had no
sensible new such formula. Sadly it is still the central inadequacy of this
new video.
There is still the promise to “cover the night” on April 20, when
cities are supposed to be plastered with posters and graffiti linked to the
Kony2012 campaign. How this will help “the children to come back home”
is never explained.
And there is the confident claim, never questioned by the charity, that simple “awareness”
of a problem helps it to go away.
But where the first film called for boosted support for US military advisers
now deployed to train African armies to beat Kony,
the sequel says “military action” has failed.
Instead, it tells us, “strengthening ongoing African Union efforts and
regional governments are the best way to apprehend the top LRA leadership”.
This is far from the inspirational but likely ultimately fruitless calls for
change the crescendoed the first film – but it is the truth. Whether that
will inspire people the way the earlier instalment did is open to question.
There had been fewer than 500 YouTube views of the latest film more than six
hours after it was launched yesterday.
Posted in 
Tags: 
