I Am Probably Really Excited About This.

Watch this video.  Seriously.

In case you don't, I'll summarize.

First off, some history.  Joseph Kony leads a rebel group called the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) that kidnaps children from their home, forces them to kill their own parents, join the army, become sex slaves, and lots of other bad news stuff.  He's done this to over 30,000 children.  He has no cause, other than being a power-hungry jerk-face. 

Independent American film-maker goes to Africa.  Meets a boy that has escaped from Joseph Kony's LRA.  The boy, named Jacob, watched his brother get murdered by this LRA group.  They are bad guys.  Kind of like the bad guys on Star Wars. 
Anyways, Independent film-maker promises Jacob he will end the LRA.  Big promise.  Film maker comes home, talks to the government about it (they say there's nothing they can do), so he starts telling anyone and everyone that will listen all about it. 
Now that the people are demanding it, Obama sends 100 troops to Africa to help the Uganda military find Kony. 
Bottom line:  Invisible Children (that's the name of Independent film-maker's organization) has a goal to catch Kony by the end of 2012.  To do this, they are making everyone AWARE of who he is and what he's done.  That way, the world's governments can't ignore it. 

This is a new concept to me.  Now that communication has gone global, we are no longer separated by the boundaries of a state, country, or even continent.  Joseph Kony is not only a criminal in Uganda, or even Africa.  He is a criminal that, like Hitler, is a menace to the human race. 

So let's do something about it!  Seriously.  I am so in.