Kony Island & American Clowns...
"Seen and not heard", eh? These "Children" are well seen - 'Kony 2012', anyone? Silence really is "golden" in the Democratic Republic of Congo - and coltan, molybdenum, diamond, tin, iron, manganese...That's some expensive silence. And even Oprah Winfrey bought the story hook line and sinker. Here's the trail: The US is still claiming to harbor remorse in the wake of the Rwandan Genocide, "We should have, We would have, We could have' Yes. But America sat out that deadly dance. There had to be a reason why. In the history of US foreign policy (however laughable), there is always an ulterior motive and that motive is almost always self-interest, and not especially 'enlightened', either. So now we have the best-funded group of do-gooders you've never heard of...at least you've never heard of them unless you support the death penalty for homosexuals, zero rightsd for women and believe Creationism is the way it was, the way it is and the it evermore will be. That plus a lot of money would qualify you for membership in 'Invisible Children'. And 'Invisible Children' make the execrable piece of agitprop that is 'Kony 2012'. Meanwhile, the massacre in the Congo continues to produce a luxuriant smoke screen behind which the US helps itself to the Congo's natural resources. "Foreign Air" American-Style...
- KBOO