The video at the end tells the real story, and there’s a link to the site in the comments. I just needed to do something to raise at least a little awareness about this, so, this one should make you groan for just so many reasons . . .
Pun-isment Intended
“But I really want to say it!”
“No, no, you can’t. You can’t!”
“But I really want to!”
“No, no. It’ll undermine the entire point of the whole campaign if you make light of it in this way!”
“But I’ve just got to! It’ll bring more attention to the problem, isn’t that the point?”
“Right, but this is a bona fide monster who steals children from their beds at night, forces them to mutilate peoples faces, rape the girls stolen out of their beds at night, and kill as an army for no good reason whatsoever. What could possibly be gained from making light of such a thing?”
“Your grandfather used to make light of the Holocaust. What about that?”
“That’s different, he’s a survivor.”
“So you ask him if he went to summer camp when he was a kid, to which he chuckles ‘Oh yes, I went to camp all right,’ and it’s ok to make fun of millions of lives slaughtered, but I can’t make one little pun to raise awareness about the most wanted man on the international list? Hardly seems fair . . .”
“All right, all right. Just say it already,”
“Kony Island!”
“See that doesn’t even make any sense! Feel better now?”
“I do. I do.”

http://www.kony2012.com/
In the wake of writing this I’ve learned a bit more about the history of the region in question and read arguments about why this campaign is a simple answer to a complex problem, and why it might cause more harm than good. Despite these arguments, if this campaign facilitates people learning about the region, a bad man going away, and people getting together to try to make something good come about on this planet, I’m happy to support this experiment. I think that people learning en mass that things should be made better, and then acting on that, ultimately will show itself to be a good thing, even if they think it will be easier than it actually will be. By the time things get harder, people will be ready for a more complex problem if they’ve already had experience cutting their teeth on a less complex one . . . Peace.
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/292-151/10497-top-ten-ways-to-tell-kony-is-phony
The world has it’s work cut out for it. I’m a bit ashamed to think maybe I was too hasty a believer. On the other hand, the guy aint good. Maybe this will raise awareness about what steps the world community really needs to make to teach brother to be brother rather than chasing after “monsters” . . .
I keep going back and forth. Just read the comments at the end of the above post. Either way, I do believe truth will continue surfacing until a full picture comes into focus. Whatever the truth is, I do not believe it will remain hidden by the results of this campaign, and at that point the greatest of the work I think can be done by it . . .