GMU Students Take a Stand against Mason Police (True Story)

I found this story on my Facebook feed this morning, posted by a friend with close ties to George Mason University. The events depicted in the following article are both upsetting and deplorable. I’m sharing this because it needs to be shared in hopes that it will get to someone who can help take action against the individuals involved.Because you need to login to Facebook to read the article, I’ve posted it below, but a non-Facebook version can be found here as well.

Please read the article in full and then share it with others.

Perspective

Today was not a good day.

I woke up exhausted, cold and with a bit of a headache. Like most mornings when I don’t feel like getting out of bed, I turn on my iPod to connect with the world, check my email, maybe watch a TV show before heading downstairs for food. My twitter feed started out like normal – local news, a North Carolina concert announcement from Live Nation about Prince and then there it was – The earthquake that rocked Japan, sending a tsunami to Hawaii and the California coast. Then I turned on my phone to find a text from my mom that my cousin’s husband died last night.

Suddenly my crap didn’t seem so important.

Derez

Derez: short for Deresolution; a term from the Disney series Tron which refers to someone being dissolved. For a computer program, deresolution equates to death.

Weird way to start a post, I concur, but I use it for two reasons: 1) the song from Tron: Legacy inspired by the term is a favorite and 2) death doesn’t mean the end of all things, just the end of something. Whether human life or that of a computer program, all things are energy and energy never dies.

Don’t mess with this kid