Jesse Jackson calls for uprising in Benton Harbor

I wondered how long it would take for somebody from the other side of the river to add their predictable 2 cents worth. Times are changing and those days of herding all the undesirables into prescribed ghettos and then doing everything possible to keep them there to slowly die off are over. What would destroy the elite makes the non-elite stronger. They survive and challenge the elite’s power.
The entire west side of Michigan is in for huge surprise from Benton Harbor and Detroit! All you did was awaken a sleeping giant, and one that is pissed!

There is no justification for DICTATORSHIP in this country. I don’t care how much dysfuction there is in a town. Snyder emascerbated the problem by keeping state moneys from localities. I will never look at Whirlpool the same again. After the theft of Jean Klock park, that is a name that no longer means QUALITY. I looked at my washer and dryer, it is a whirlpool and I am getting them out of my house. It may not be a big deal, but it is my way of supporting the people of Benton Harbor. They have a right to an elected council and a say in how their tax dollars are being spent, I don’t care how poor or how dumb. MI is violating every constitutional right of its citizens and it is a disgrace. Benton Harbor should not be alone in this battle. DEMOCRACIES can die or be killed, if neglected or taken for granted. This is a move toward an unconstitutional plutocracy in the state. It is an establishment of a RULING CLASS and others and it is bad for america’s future.

There is 1 job for every 5 people in Michigan–get a clue.

Please, so someone who was orphaned when both of their parents died, or was born to drug addicted parents, or grew up in a poor community with bad schools, it’s “their fault” that they are poor? That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. I imagine it’s Japan’s fault for getting hit by an earthquake and a tsunami as well, and no one should help them, they should just overcome on their own. People don’t choose their parents, their country or their community when they are born. All those factors are brought upon them. If their parents, their community and their country cannot give them a hand, then all are failures; it doesn’t just lie on the individual.

The same holds for success. People with powerful parents get into the good schools, get good recommendations and can screw up several times, because they have money to fall back on, but people praise them for their “talents”. It’s BS that people are responsible for all their successes and failures. That’s not how the real world works, it’s a fantasy.

You have revealed the plan of the rich, to have the poor waste away into oblivion, after taking everything we have, including our rights and freedoms. (Funny, you can spell oblivion but can’t spell doesn’t, hmmm.)
Anyway, this is a class war and this is only the beginning of the majority of the people fighting back. Part of the plan was to keep the poor fighting against each other with a bunch of fake issues, capitalizing on racial fears and fighting over too few jobs and struggling to hang on to our homes from illegal foreclosures. Once people realized what was going on the fight began in earnest.
This isn’t the 60′s anymore, it’s not just pickets and protesting.
If the Egyptians can topple a dictator, we can overthrow a bunch of spoiled rich boys!

Whose fault is it if you cannot write a gramatically correct sentence in the English language, Christopher? Whose fault is it if you are utterly uninformed about the current economic circumstances in this country that have resulted in job losses, foreclosures and bankruptcies. There are many reasons for being poor, but fewer reasons for being uninformed, bigoted and unable to use the shift key to capitalize the letters at the beginning of each sentence. Are you the victim of bad decisions, drug addiction, a minor — or you just an idiot?

People have worked their whole lives, then their job is sent to China, They lose their Homes, Cars, all Moneys, Savings, Insurances, and Their children because they can’t afford to take care of them, They are deemed an unfit parent because they have to live in the streets. After 30 to 40 years of working to have a home, Car, a Normal existence for their children. You better pull Your head Out, You are living in a Fog. How Long do You think You should have to go with out any assitance if You lost everything? How Many Years Have You Put into society?

Exactly! You hit it right on mark! And that is what this is all about!
This is the same plan being pushed across the country, cry emergency and then take over a town, a county and supply a dictator. It’s not Communism, or anything we’ve seen before, it’s Corporatism, take over by rich businesses. Finally they found a way around laws, constitutions and voting.
A bloodless Coup has been carried out in Benton Harbor!

A coup d’état (English: /ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/, French: [ku deta]; plural: coups d’état)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government,[1][2][3] usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either civil or military. A coup d’état succeeds if the usurpers establish their dominance when the incumbent government fails to prevent or successfully resist their consolidation of power. If the coup neither fully fails nor achieves overall success, the attempted coup d’etat is likely to lead to a civil war.

Typically, a coup d’état uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak says, “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’état.