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Crime / War / International George Clooney and Several Members of Congress that Nobody Knows Arrested in Washington DC
Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:22 AM
They were protesting all that nasty shit going on in Darfur, a region in Western Sudan. In case you forgot, there was a 20 year civil war in Sudan:
But that’s not really why Clooney got himself arrested. The fighting [...] has largely subsided. The Sudanese government has basically won. Now, they are punishing the civilians who still live in the Nuba Mountain border regions by blocking humanitarian access to the region. The Sudanese government is not letting groups like the World Food Program, UN Refugee Agency, or Red Cross/Red Crescent bring food or medicine to people in the region. The UN is warning of a looming famine and mass starvation in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. About 200,000 people on the Sudanese side of the border are at immediate risk of starvation.
Now you know.
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Are there no musical theater majors to make a video about this? If those Invisible Children twats weren't just interested in their careers, converting people to Christianity and supplying guns, maybe they would have focused on an issue that Africa is obviously not capable of fixing on its own (as opposed to Uganda and Rwanda who do not need US intervention).
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Wow...what a risk taker.
Say, George, how about getting arrested in support of the repeal of Prop. 13 in California.
Oh, but that would hit you and the other Hollywood Liberals in the pocketbook...where it really hurts.
4
You people are ignorant and ego-centric. You have no clue about what suffering really is. Im sure no one ever came to your village, burned your house down, raped your mother and killed your father. I'm sure you never had to walk across a desert eating mud and drinking your own piss to stay alive. And I'm sure no one ever forced you to be a child solidier. This is the true details of a Sudanese refugee I know and love. A person who is humble, sweet, intelligent and nonviolent. Africa has so many war issues because colonizers realized a good method of control was to play tribes against each other. Almost every political issue in Africa today, can be traced back to European and American intervention. America does have responsibility to intervene in Sudan and Uganda. You use a fucking cell phone or computer your part of the problemUnfortunately America only likes to intervene if a puppet government is willing to follow their orders
Clooney is trying to use his famous platform to fight for faceless people who are vunerable to of violence and exploitation and starvation.
Shame on you!
You can hate on others who try to make a difference, but do nothing to make your life worth while you uneducated self-serving bastards.
Clooney is trying to use his famous platform to fight for faceless people who are vunerable to of violence and exploitation and starvation.
Shame on you!
You can hate on others who try to make a difference, but do nothing to make your life worth while you uneducated self-serving bastards.
5
You people are ignorant and ego-centric. You have no clue about what suffering really is. Im sure no one ever came to your village, burned your house down, raped your mother and killed your father. I'm sure you never had to walk across a desert eating mud and drinking your own piss to stay alive. And I'm sure no one ever forced you to be a child solidier. This is the true details of a Sudanese refugee I know and love. A person who is humble, sweet, intelligent and nonviolent. Africa has so many war issues because colonizers realized a good method of control was to play tribes against each other. Almost every political issue in Africa today, can be traced back to European and American intervention. America does have responsibility to intervene in Sudan and Uganda. You use a fucking cell phone or computer your part of the problemUnfortunately America only likes to intervene if a puppet government is willing to follow their orders
Clooney is trying to use his famous platform to fight for faceless people who are vunerable to of violence and exploitation and starvation.
Shame on you!
You can hate on others who try to make a difference, but do nothing to make your life worth while--you uneducated self-serving bastards.
Clooney is trying to use his famous platform to fight for faceless people who are vunerable to of violence and exploitation and starvation.
Shame on you!
You can hate on others who try to make a difference, but do nothing to make your life worth while--you uneducated self-serving bastards.
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