as you guys now and we've done a story on this invisible children last week and
released this viral video bringing attention to joseph connie who is the
leader of the lord's resistance army
uh... in central africa
now other reason why i'm bringing this up back up again today as because
understandably the organization that put out that viral video is received a lot
of criticism for endemic criticize a lot of different angles um... but
i want to bring up the simplicity of the film because today and invisible
children released another video
kind of responding to the criticism and one of the things that they do address
is how simplistic that video is that it doesn't talk about such a huge
complex issue that's happening in africa right now
uh... now what's interesting is jason russell who's the co-founder of
invisible children how to interview with the new york times and during interview
this is what he had to say about the simplicity of the film he says that no
one wants a boring documentary on africa nato we have to make it popped and we
have to make it cool we view ourselves as the pics are of human rights stories
largely group of
uh... you know soon what he wanted to do
sindhu
uh... documentary that's intensely bill an incredibly dry
the last three and a half hours to get all the complexity dot o_ one of the
fights the facts that's very very important
but at the same time if he arrives at the right fax
by telling an interesting story
does not include all
all the complexity of the issue
i can live with and it is a very complex issue as we mentioned on the shell you
know the ugandan that government is facing criticism because i have
as some of their human rights abuses
so does this organization really wanna support ban a so i think that's a very
legitimate criticism up and i'm glad they responded to it however today
there's a brand new criticism about their funding okay then you look at
actor annual reports and you see that a huge chunk of their funding comes from
fundamentalists
so um... you look at the people that are finding them and back in two thousand
six in their annual report
decided they wanted to thank the pastor family foundation encircle family
foundation so you do a little research into that when you find out the caster
family foundation was one of the leading organizations in pushing proposition
eight here in california which was
anti-gay marriage
okay now here's the interesting thing right
invisible children in support of the ugandan government
ugandan government is not supportive of gay rights in any way shape or form
we just started back in two thousand died about have how you have of
fundamentalists from the united states traveling to uganda pushing this
anti-gay legislation
but it's not easy to use socialistic clear about the outfits that
you could execute on such yes it's known as the killed a bill uh... and it you
know it has not passed in uganda
and then it was a originally proposed by a member of parliament by the name of
david potty
and if you are accuse are found guilty of aggravated homosexuality
he having sex gay sex
and transmitting aids you can literally be given the ge a death penalty
now look tumi uh... if your funding comes from some you know
right wing or is a shes pro-lifers is whatever it might be and they're
fighting for the right cause here i got no problem whatsoever with that
but if they give you money so that
somehow gets the german government
that has proposed this
hideous hideous bill that would
the to the execution of
aggravated homosexuals
uh... then we've got massive from
so you're more details as the finding nine two thousand seven they received
three hundred fifty thousand from probation foundation
and in two thousand eight they received four hundred fourteen thousand dollars
from the national christian foundation again
these are all are fundamentalists groups who are very much anti-gay
so it is raising a few red flags
yeah i would definitely ask questions as to
which direction they're going to research inhofe
uh... is also totally on their side senator inhofe is by far
the most bigger and
uh... member of congress now
doesn't mean that you can't use this help was needed to be right
and i remember when i saw a senator inhofe is on the right side of the size
of a fantastic
whether all within with all these right wing groups executed for a different
purpose
any goes to the demagoguery
which is
again has and allotted evangelical christian
influences
and that is so your lovely violently d_-day
world you know that they've been what was what we do in your will wire we had
a good money not going in that direction so
city that's the most important question
but they have to answer
on the other stopped all you guys may have been detainee i don't care about
that at all ok you get the facts right
b_b_a_ the bank strongest wholly different situation
but you whenever anybody's effective there'll be a new
lead critics his are usually those usually you can do it that way why you
like the way you reach its leaders of yeah it is a lot of bitter man everyday
you know what works and a lot of sour grapes they're all i couldn't get
anything done but you did too
and someone did take the way you did yeah i got the same sense i feel like a
lot of the criticism is like from this bitter standpoint understand why they
hate
locate because these
it's so farmer
to get in the middle one
is so many people work in media
uh... in these causes etcetera
immediate anybody to pay the attention that anything
in these guys come from below every one of the war
in a fifty million views seventy million views were over there are two made
everybody's talking about going
so
everybody else that are in these fields
ord steve embarked on the inside or its very calm and opened it was an
ex-president up regarding the white river
multi chinese guy although i think i'll stop potato
that doesn't mean that they should use your crew there is a dozen either
usually really care what the money's going
you shoulda that's what we're trying to do the birthday
don't get colored by the credibly bitter stuff that you're seeing
the domain organisers
of sport