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    I hope the vandalizing wasn't an element of the other act

    ‘Kony 2012′ filmmaker arrested in San Diego
    By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – 1 hr 48 mins ago
    ‘Kony 2012′ filmmaker arrested in San Diego | The Envoy - Yahoo! News
    Invisible Children filmmaker Jason Russell in a 2009 file photo. (NBC)Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the mega-viral "Kony 2012" documentary, was arrested in San Diego on Thursday night, NBC reported, citing the San Diego Police Department.

    Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something," NBC's San Diego affiliate reported, citing San Diego Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.

    The San Diego Police Department's Brown did not immediately return two messages left Friday from Yahoo News.

    The co-founder of the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego's Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said.

    Russell's 30-minute documentary on Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army became a surprise mega viral hit, receiving over 80 million viewers since its release last week. But the film has also kicked up a backlash of criticism against the group, ranging from how Invisible Children spends its finances to whether it cut corners with the facts in order to create a more compelling film about a more than two-decade old Central African conflict.

    But Invisible Children has also found many prominent defenders of its work, from members of Congress to President Barack Obama, who sent 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda last fall to search for Kony.

    "I think that these guys are getting mercilessly picked apart by a bunch of intellectual elites who spend their days tweeting but never trending," Cameron Hudson, former Bush White House Africa hand, told Yahoo News last week. "If their aim is to raise awareness, they have done that in spades."
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

  • #2
    "possibly under the influence of something" speaks volumes about the quality of SoCal police work.

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    • #3
      I guess he wanted to set free his "invisible children"...
      "Who says organization, says oligarchy"

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      • #4
        BBC News - Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell in hospital

        making up stuff and stealing dotations weren't enough
        sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
        If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."

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