Many of the same individual cops and prison guards that torture and kill in America are the same as those at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and elsewhere in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The repression used by the government against those rising up against the policies of the government and administrations of institutions like UCSC is indeed an important continuum of the same story. If the story is not told, the government gets away with the repression and carries it out all the more.

Minus a little hyperbole, Robert has done us all a favor. Good work.