If this keeps up, I predict riots on college campuses

I found this via BoingBoing. Go read the article: it's short. Can anyone say "egregious abuse of power"? Sure, I knew you could.

In my opinion, the campus cops involved should be charged and tried for assault. Firing won't cut it. I don't care if the student was uncooperative and unruly--he is certainly not presumed guilty of anything (like not being a student). He may also have grounds for a very expensive civil suit against the university.

In the future, whenever a lame-ass neo-con says "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about", I will remind them of incidents like this. Sounds to me like we all have plenty to worry about.

I see 1960's style civil unrest coming. This time, though, Kent State will look like a picnic. Freedom is expensive, so don't stand up unless you are prepared to go all the way.

Update: I found the YouTube video courtesy The Huffington Post. I tried to watch it, but couldn't.

Via BoingBoing, again: Turns out the student didn't have his ID, and university rules state that students must have their IDs (and be prepared to show them to authorities) after 11 PM (the incident occurred after "zero hour"). At least now we know the penalty at UCLA for failure to have your student ID ...

The university's chancellor thinks this policy is for the protection of students. Boy, does he have a strange idea of what the word "protection" means!

Sadly, (yeah, I say that a lot) I must also revise my dire predictions of vast civil unrest--people today are just sheep, and I'm too farking tired to keep on fighting. Sue me.