Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

As often happens,
I see something online
and go "wow, that's really
inspiring."


This is one of those things:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc


I had seen the Invisible Children documentary.


But I really didn't know who Kony was.
And then I saw this video
(which has gone viral).


And it struck something.
How do we let this happen
as a global community?


As human beings,
we allow this corrupted man
to abduct youth, to
force them into violence,
traumatize them,
rape them,
kill them.


There is something wrong with this.


We are all humans,
we all have the sense
that these actions
are wrong.


This should not happen.


30,000 children
should not have had to 
endure this kind of torment.


They are children.


They can never be the same.


We should all band together 
to protect global rights,
global safety.


We can stop violence like this.


Gradually. Slowly and with measured steps.
But we have to start somewhere.


The Invisible Children group
has found (what I think is) a good start.


Arrest Kony.
The #1 criminal on
the International Criminal Court's 
list. 


The movement has garnered so much 
attention that last year
Obama deployed advisors
in Africa.


We have to keep them there,
we have to get the word out,
we have to stop this cruelty
and we have to 
fight 
like
hell
to defend our fellow human beings.


We can all agree
that this shouldn't happen.


Things like this 
sadden me,
as a citizen of humanity.
Why does this happen?


How can one man with one idea
ruin so many lives?


But now
there are a lot of people
with one huge idea,
one idea to change the future.


Stop Kony.


I believe it.
I want it to happen.
No one should commit these crimes
and get away with it.


We crave justice
as humans,
we ought to 
bring it down
on Kony.


Here's the video if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc