UPDATE: “Kony 2012” director detained for masturbating in public
A NEW, close-up video of Jason Russell’s nude meltdown in San Diego has been posted on TMZ. It shows the Kony 2012 campaigner pounding the ground, swearing and shouting about the devil.
Russell is being held in a psychiatric ward. His wife, Danica, has suggested he could not cope with the attention and pressure after his Kony 2012 video went viral and received widespread criticism.
The Ugandan government has weighed in now, too, uploading their own video on YouTube to contest claims made in Russell’s 29-minute long film. “The Kony 2012 campaign fails to make one crucial point clear. Joseph Kony is not in Uganda”, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi says in the video.
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JASON RUSSELL, the Christian hipster dad behind the “Kony 2012” viral video campaign, has reportedly been hospitalised after masturbating in public and smashing up cars in San Diego.
According to reports from NBC San Diego and TMZ, the 33-year-old co-founder of the Invisible Children charity was allegedly found running through traffic in speedo-like underwear, screaming and vandalising cars. He was possibly under the influence of something.
The CEO of Invisible Children, Ben Keesey, told TMZ that “Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition”.
#Horny2012 and #Bony2012 promptly started trending on Twitter, with jibes about Russell, a married father-of two, making his own unborn children visible.
TMZ acquired footage which allegedly shows Jason Russell in the midst of his public breakdown at 11.30am local time on Thursday.
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A boy who has come to spend the night in Noah's Ark children's shelter is seen in Gulu district, August 2006 in northern Uganda. Rebels often raid villages and abduct children at night, forcing children to sleep in shelters, where they can rest in relative safety. For 20 years a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children to force them to serve as soldiers and sex slaves. Based in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize northern Uganda, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes for dire conditions of IDP camps. People in the affected area are helped by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who provide health care, rehabilitate and run hospitals, battle epidemics, carry out vaccination campaigns, and offer mental healthcare.
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