What's most amazing about the Kony 2012 campaign is not the speed with which it's burst into national discussion but how quickly it seems to be crashing into a brick wall. Even if you weren't put off by Invisible Children's manipulative propaganda film or the questions about how they spend people's donations, the news that the group's spokesman (or, is it, mastermind) Jason Russell was detained by police on March 15th for public drunkenness and unspecified sexual behavior is probably making you think twice about the group.
Personally, I don't care what Mr. Russell does as long as he's not hurting other people, but it is amusing that the same media environment that enabled the campaign to become so ubiquitous is the same one that ensured his behavior couldn't possibly go under the radar. And while both Invisible Children and Russell's wife attribute his actions to exhaustion rather than any kind of substance abuse problem, it makes me wonder about the timing of the group's major event on April 20th, which is a bit of an unofficial holiday for aficionados of cannabis.
All kidding aside, I'm sure Mr. Russell's intentions are intentions that he believes are good intentions. Given the chance, there are only two things I would say to him. The first is that the footage of Hitler in the Kony 2012 film was ridiculous - the only person who deserves to be compared to Adolf Hitler is Joseph Stalin. The second is a small piece of advice that always served me well - to each their own, just remember where you put your underwear.
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