Today, the African Union announced that it was sending 5,000 troops to hunt for Joseph Kony who has used the jungles of Africa to cover a lifetime of atrocity. Better late than never. For years, my children, through their respective Catholic schools, supported Invisible Children, the organization that launched a viral campaign to make Joseph Kony so famous that he would have nowhere to hide. Say what you will about Jason Russell and his recent apparent nervous breakdown, the campaign is working and it is not about him anyway. It is about Joseph Kony.
For well over a decade, the genocide raged on in Southern Sudan and the Industrial world did nothing about it. Why? Because it was in the interest of international business and intentional global political gridlock to leave the genocide alone. The people of the Darfur region were not important enough to warrant protecting, at least in the eyes of the global business and political communities. But for millions and millions of global citizens, they were important. Their suffering was heard and most of us wanted to do something about it. Millions and millions of us were willing to have our tax dollars stop the murder, rape and mayhem. Millions and millions of us were ignored by our respective politicians who were too busy pandering to global conglomerates rather than tending to the will of the people.
The power elite does not care who Joseph Kony is despite the fact that this monster of a man was the number one fugitive on the International Criminal Court's most wanted list. He controlled no oil. He did not interrupt international shipping. He was the problem of poor Ugandans of no significance to global business interests. But these poor Ugandans suddenly found 85,000,000 friends on YouTube because we, the people, watched Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video. Even mass media's attempt to discredit Invisible Children could not stop social media. We listened past the goat herding attempts of the corporate media establishment and we made our intentions known. We shined a light on a murderer and now he is being hunted.
The lesson to be learned here, is that the people of the world can no longer trust that their governments are responsive to the will of the people. It is clear that all governments respond to the will of the global business elite who seek only to serve themselves under a bogus theory of the divine right of fictitious job creation. We have returned to economic feudalism. We have lost control of our institutions that are supposed to serve human beings, not corporate entities. We have granted "super person" legal status to corporations while stripping the individual human being of everything but the barest fragments of citizenship. It is time to surround these oligarchs and force them to sign and live into a new Magna Carta. It is time to bypass corporate media and talk among ourselves. We, each of us, must take individual responsibility for the world we say shall exist. We must spread the news amongst ourselves because the mass media version of the news is simply too polluted with propaganda.
If we are to have the planet that we, the people, want, then we will have to take control of it ourselves, by ourselves. If we are to have peace and freedom, then we are going to have to cause it ourselves and stand up for our brothers and sisters, no matter where they are in the world and bring oppressive governments to their knees - together. We, the people, must tame the unruly beast of greedy politics to restore humanity to human society. Joseph Kony has helped us all see that this can be done.
The next great revolution for the liberation of the human population will not be fought with drones or cruise missiles. All of the high-tech weaponry in the world will not save a government from the army of us, we, the people. We will take them down with cell phones. We must force our governments to deny personhood to entities and reserve democracy for human beings alone. We can cut off the flow of product purchasing and tax payments until they agree to the demands of the sovereignty of humanity. They cannot fund the construction of drones and cruise missiles without our money. They cannot get to their office buildings to plot the sucking of the world's wealth into the hands of a few if they can't get past the millions of us who flash mob the streets and make it impossible for them to conduct their business.
This is no longer a matter of Occupy Wall Street or the battle for freedom in Syria. It is no longer an Arab Spring, but rather, it is Springtime For Humanity - all of humanity. This is about the Great We -- and We are really, really pissed off. We want our society back in the hands of people. We resent corporations fanning the fires of hot-button religious and political issues to manipulate the masses. We will solve our difference as people, not entities. We want our money back from the rich. We demand freedom for everybody, even if it means that these free people will refuse to do business with certain governments or corporations. We want the liberation of our women, respect for all races, religions, ethnicities, gender preferences and we are going to smother our oppressors by banding together until our demands are met - or worse - we are going to stop buying products and paying taxes. It is hard to buy a bomber or yacht with your surgically enhanced good looks alone.
So the message to the cake eaters it this: pay close attention to what is happening in Egypt, Syria, Oakland California and elsewhere. It is going to start happening in Moscow, Beijing and Omaha, Nebraska. We are talking to each other and we are talking about you.
I may only be a single "me", but I have 700,000,000 friends on Facebook.
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