Joseph Kony is still out there, and is still abducting children for his murderous gang and his messianic vision of himself as the leader of his own theocracy, as “revealed” to him by God. He has been indicted for crimes against Humanity and there is a warrant out to bring him to The Hague for trial. Unless we can determine that his is truly dead, the need to bring him to tria has not gone away.
Pressure from The Invisible Children, the group behind Kony 2012, did help push the US to send in 100 special forces troops to help train the Ugandan Army and, perhaps, if we get a fix on Kony’s location, swoop in and arrest him.
The guy behind Kony 2012, the executive director of The Invisible Children, gets an annual salary of $90K for running a charity that’s taken in $13 million in a year. That’s not a high salary to administer such a charity. The administrative and fund-raising costs of the organization are also pretty typical for charitable operations its size.
All the criticism of The Invisible Children’s efforts strike me as Indicative of the saying, :“No good deed goes unpunished.” Some of the critics, I think, find it easier to do nothing when they explain why anything done by those who care is wrong.