Kony 2012 project critics

Joseph Kony

  Does everyone knows about Joseph Kony? He is a world top wanted criminal in UN. Joseph Kony is a criminal who kidnaps children and gives them guns, than makes them shoot their own parents. He also takes children and uses them as child soldier. His army has no reason at all, but just to maintain his power. Jason Russell went to Africa and tried to convince USA to help Africa. However, USA government refused to help those kids, so Jason Russell created an organization called 'Invisible Children' and is doing 'Kony 2012' video project. It is about making Kony famous and getting him caught this year. They are making Joseph Kony famous to catch him easily, but I do not think it will help at all.

 

First of all, African children will be in more danger. If we say that Joseph is bad to the all world, he could be mad at the children he kidnapped (because he could think this happened because of Jacob and the other children) and try to kill some children and kidnap more  children to prepare for the expected battle with government.



 In addition to that, the reason why they did the bad things could be to become famous. If he did all those bad things in Africa, he would have guessed that he will become famous. If we make him famous like Bill Gates, or other great man like Obama, or Lee Myeong Park, it is like getting him awards like those successful people. He could be happy to achieve his goals.

   Lastly, he could hide or escape. If there are so many people who know about the 'Kony 2012' videos now since Kony's organization is also able to get on Internet, he will know about it too. He is hiding and commanding his people even now, and if we try to make him famous for long time, he will have time to find a better place to hide and this would just make harder to arrest him.

 However, there are still reasons why some people think Kony 2012 project is good. However, I will show why those reasons are wrong.

   First, netizens can help catching Kony. However, even though netizens can learn from video and get impact, netizens will be worried to put themselves into those big risks. Also, netizens don't live where Kony is hiding, so they will not be able to give controversial help to catch Kony.

   Not only that, the organization can get donations from netizens and many organizations.However, 1/3 of them is used to create new videos, and also many of them is used to maintain the organizations. Also, as you can think of there are not many that we can help to arrest Kony with money. By that, you can think that The organization is earning lots of money.

   My opinion is that they should not make Kony famous for following reasons ; children could be in more danger, Kony wants to be famous, and he could escape. The opposition to my idea had following reasons ; netizens can help catching Kony, and organizations can get donations from netizens. I think it is not good idea to just inform people about what he did, but not make him famous.