Kony 2012

Authors Note: This is an essay for a Research Paper towards my goals.


It’s time to put a stop to this criminal activity. Make this world more pure by saving the children and the people of Uganda. Jason Russel, the founder of this campaign, takes charge with support from his wife and four- year old son. As the mom quotes “We will do anything to help save these children, we will follow Jason with whatever he dictates.” This small family has grown over the past years, as they go down to Uganda once a month and help the children; they find love with in them. If you had the decision to save them, would you?

Let’s rewind, let me start from the beginning when Joseph T. Kony was a young boy. At the age of seven, his parents were killed. He was sound asleep at night when a few criminals who ransacked homes in Uganda, snuck through his windows. He had awoken to blood curdling screams by his younger brother, and his parents gasping for their last few breaths. His parents were dead in minute’s time. They were shot, his mother in her rib and his father through his brain. His younger brother’s face was rearranged; his mouth ripped wide, and nose on his left cheek. Since then he hated anything or anyone who had something he didn’t. Our questions now are who is Kony? What has he done? And how do we stop it?

Who is Kony? Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).The LRA has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons. The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people. He’s been giving the boys of the family he’s abducted, guns, to kill his parents. He also rearranges the faces of them so no one will recognize them. The girls that are kidnapped are forced to be sex slaves and to be given birth of another child towards the new army. What would lead a man to do such cruel things to children? And does the U.S. care? Why should we? “It’s not in our country it’s not our business” says V.P Joe Biden. So, why would we put a stop to it, if it didn’t involve us?



Let’s look at the opinions of the United States citizens, Mary Paler, wife of a senator states “When criminals around the nation are successfully going against the laws of the country, how do you think that influences others in the world or in our country?” What Mary is persuading is true. Criminals, who aspire to be something for the history books, usually use inspiration from other criminals with successful activity done. If U.S. criminals start unleashing the same idea, what will our country turn out to be? Do we want are kids to grow up in fear? What we really need to find out is, how we can make the U.S. take action and how we can help.


Why are we ignoring the hurt children of this planet? God’s creations are dying as we speak and we can’t even reach a helping hand? Osama is now dead, he’s not part of our worries any more, we can move on and save the others. Here’s how we can help, on April 22, 2012, the invisible children rescue team is covering all the main cities in each state with posters of Joseph Kony himself. We need to make everyone aware and we need Kony to be known. You may wonder, why are we trying to make Joseph famous? Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals and I support the international effort to arrest him, disarm the LRA and bring the child soldiers home.