So, last night was the night that the world was supposedly going to be plastered with posters and stickers in relation to Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony. Thousands of people clicked attending on event pages for Dublin, stating that they would take part in the postering effort. One page, with in excess of 2,500 attendees, noted that:
Everyone is meeting outside Stephens Green shopping centre at 10pm and we will organise postering from there.
My friend Eoin posted the image above to Facebook, showing a single poster at College Green. Others have been in touch to say Dublin is pretty much poster-free today, and the ‘campaign’ has failed here at least, despite the thousands pledging to cover the city. The recent exposures on the group behind the campaign (‘Invisible Children’) which revealed their conservative religious ethos and funding, coupled with the very public breakdown of the campaigns public face (who eh…..was caught on video running around San Diego naked shouting about the devil) no doubt led to its demise. Dublin City Council must be delighted.
2500 sheep trying to feel better tipping the forelock to their betters and making themselves feel better by joining “deh qualitee” (anything international from anywhere else) Most Sundays for the last two years or so there has been a protest outside the Pro Cathedral against decades long physical abuse, child rape, enslavement of young women and a system that makes that other baptised Catholic, Hitler, look like a flash in the pan. Most of the time it involves no more than 3 or 4 people.
Where are all these fucking protest warriors on Sunday mornings in Dublin?
They must be all suffering from hangovers after drinking in the Beaumount house the night before where they were sure not to upset any of the owners “special guests” in case they got thrown out.