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WEG_champ2010 Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:35 pm
Name: Well, we say "Invisible Children" because of a movie we saw called "InvisibleChildren" So...that’s just the name we keep using. (To find more or add your own facts, go to www.invisiblechildren.com)
Location: Africa, Uganda
Facts: for more than ten years the LRA (Lords Resistance Army) have been raging a war on their own people using the age old excuse "God said" or "because it's right" or in this case "We want to free the people"
(AN: funny how this Joseph guy...the one killing these people...is killing the Acholi, saying he is "freeing the Acholi") The LRA literally takes children from their homes, (Ranging in age from 6-14, because at that point they are still impressionable and are big enough to carry guns) and brings them out into "The bush"- as most describe the African planes that the children have come to fear. Once there, the LRA leaders desensitize the children by killing other kids in front of them. Later, they are forced to walk and are given army training- keep in mind that if at any time they try to run, or are considered out of line they will be chopped to pieces by a machete- they are taught to fight with large guns, and knives. Girls and young women are raped, and usually killed. (In the movie you see hundreds of people with knife wounds, girls that have been raped, amputations, and even gun shot wounds.
All the parents and local people have been calling for help since it began, but the best the "government" is doing is allowing the children- with NO parents or legal guardian telling them to- to sleep at the bus stop at night hoping that in this way they will be saved from the horrific abductions that only a handful have escaped.
What can we do? Well, at this point it seems very hopeless but I tell you that it is not! Go to www.invisiblechildren.com and they can tell you more, but the biggest thing is really awarness. Never underestimate the power of knowledge!
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:51 am
The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note:
Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking!
What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them.
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WEG_champ2010 Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:44 am
Abject_Abomination The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note: Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking! What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them.
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:33 pm
bite-me14 Abject_Abomination The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note: Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking! What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them. A HOAX?! Well, I never. That's just crazy. I feel like I owe them everything; I feel so guilty for sitting here, warm underneath blankets, with glasses on typing on a laptop and it dosn't help that all I can seem to complain about is my butt hurting when they are over there dying for some... unseen, if you will, cause. I've tried telling myself everything but what my heart wants to do is save those people but be able to do what I dream of doing: acting/voice acting. I've come up with a 'solution' though. With the career of an actor/actoress comes fame (if only just a little) and I can use that fame to get the word out of the genocide, about the 'invisible' children, about these things that are too gory and far away to make it into out news. I never thought something that awful was going on in the world, I was merley conserned with having to sit on that hard stool in science class. I feel so spoiled and guilty...
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WEG_champ2010 Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:21 pm
Forever-Fornever bite-me14 Abject_Abomination The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note: Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking! What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them. A HOAX?! Well, I never. That's just crazy. I feel like I owe them everything; I feel so guilty for sitting here, warm underneath blankets, with glasses on typing on a laptop and it dosn't help that all I can seem to complain about is my butt hurting when they are over there dying for some... unseen, if you will, cause. I've tried telling myself everything but what my heart wants to do is save those people but be able to do what I dream of doing: acting/voice acting. I've come up with a 'solution' though. With the career of an actor/actoress comes fame (if only just a little) and I can use that fame to get the word out of the genocide, about the 'invisible' children, about these things that are too gory and far away to make it into out news. I never thought something that awful was going on in the world, I was merley conserned with having to sit on that hard stool in science class. I feel so spoiled and guilty...
Don't get me wrong, I feel like this all the time, but I think that to find true happines, we need to find a balance in what we have, what we want, and what we give.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:40 pm
bite-me14 Forever-Fornever bite-me14 Abject_Abomination The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note: Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking! What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them. A HOAX?! Well, I never. That's just crazy. I feel like I owe them everything; I feel so guilty for sitting here, warm underneath blankets, with glasses on typing on a laptop and it dosn't help that all I can seem to complain about is my butt hurting when they are over there dying for some... unseen, if you will, cause. I've tried telling myself everything but what my heart wants to do is save those people but be able to do what I dream of doing: acting/voice acting. I've come up with a 'solution' though. With the career of an actor/actoress comes fame (if only just a little) and I can use that fame to get the word out of the genocide, about the 'invisible' children, about these things that are too gory and far away to make it into out news. I never thought something that awful was going on in the world, I was merley conserned with having to sit on that hard stool in science class. I feel so spoiled and guilty...
Don't get me wrong, I feel like this all the time, but I think that to find true happines, we need to find a balance in what we have, what we want, and what we give. Granted, but as said before, the Clock is ticking, Kids are dying and being captured every day. People are ignorant, and they want to stay that way because its easier, because if they get involved and understand then they feel guilty and then they, sort of, have to do something about it. I plan on going there among other places in the world, but i wont just move on. (speaking of which, once some polls come though for colors i have a draft pretty much completed. Did you find out anything about printing on shirts, cost, numbers etc...?)
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WEG_champ2010 Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:26 pm
Abject_Abomination bite-me14 Forever-Fornever bite-me14 Abject_Abomination The minute i finish the designs for posters or t-shirts, i get them scanned and posted... on a personal note: Those bastards, how dare they kill children in gods name and say that they are doing his will?! I can't believe that some people are so little that they are afraid of seeing this atrocity, this disgusting, perverse situation, whats worse is that its not too late to help them but the clock is ticking! What ever we do we need to open peoples eyes, because once they're open you can't close them. A HOAX?! Well, I never. That's just crazy. I feel like I owe them everything; I feel so guilty for sitting here, warm underneath blankets, with glasses on typing on a laptop and it dosn't help that all I can seem to complain about is my butt hurting when they are over there dying for some... unseen, if you will, cause. I've tried telling myself everything but what my heart wants to do is save those people but be able to do what I dream of doing: acting/voice acting. I've come up with a 'solution' though. With the career of an actor/actoress comes fame (if only just a little) and I can use that fame to get the word out of the genocide, about the 'invisible' children, about these things that are too gory and far away to make it into out news. I never thought something that awful was going on in the world, I was merley conserned with having to sit on that hard stool in science class. I feel so spoiled and guilty...
Don't get me wrong, I feel like this all the time, but I think that to find true happines, we need to find a balance in what we have, what we want, and what we give. Granted, but as said before, the Clock is ticking, Kids are dying and being captured every day. People are ignorant, and they want to stay that way because its easier, because if they get involved and understand then they feel guilty and then they, sort of, have to do something about it. I plan on going there among other places in the world, but i wont just move on. (speaking of which, once some polls come though for colors i have a draft pretty much completed. Did you find out anything about printing on shirts, cost, numbers etc...?)
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