The Paper Coup in action; Benton Harbor officials have been reduced to figureheads with no real power. Guess it won't be long before the Benton Harbor ceases to exist.
I've researched a little further and this town has proven time and time again that it can't take care of itself, but this can't be the answer. Something needs to be done for the residents who care, but this is power run amok.
Fuck corporatism. We need a socialism-capitalism hybrid NOW. The workers need a share of ownership in the company so that they have a say in all of the ways that business affects their lives.
I read about this Friday or Saturday and didn't believe it. This couldn't happen in the U.S.A., Rachael Maddow would definitly have a fit. Then it was like her last news item yesterday evening! Still, she's the only one that I know to report this. How can a community hold a legitamate election just to have the Gov. deem it null and void, which essentially what he did. This has got to be stopped!
@MegaMoochie1 short of assassinations that isnt happening. They feel invincible, HOWEVER, assassination would help them in their goals too. as if someone kills them - they will have justification to limit freedoms.
Freedom is already lost, the best thing we can do is leave the USA, while staying put.
I really really really hope the Republicans get their comeuppance. But of course that depends on the Democrats growing a spine. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
Should the rich really start a power grab like this considering the number of guns in this country? Maybe they should check out what happens in countries where the poor far out number the rich. The rich usually find themselves a foot shorter after the poor revolt.
Hey c'mon, this is for the public good. The new golf course will create at least a dozen minimum wage (Plus tips!) caddy jobs for the local residents, not to mention groundskeepers and some domestic servant jobs too!
No big surprise here, this law was always meant for developers to bypass recalcitrant local governments so they could do as they please without interfernce from the locals.
its for your own good... oh thats alright then.... for a moment i thought you were trying to screw us. we have the same shit about to happen here in the uk. Klein had it right in the shock doctrine, and to think i had thought that book hyperbole last year :-/ ho hum u live and learn
I am not surprised about this. As a former Michigander/Detroiter corruption has and is so rampant. My family wondered why I left the state to find employment in other states...well this is just one of many huge reasons why. Another reason was that racism is extremely rampant in Michigan. It upsets me that so many people try to blame the black community for everything that is wrong with the state.
@bamboo4tameshigiri As long as those are tranqs it's all good. do not kill over this, dismantle construction vehicles, salvage their parts and melt them down.
@LegendaryAsshole I did that for a couple years when I was a kid. They were trying to build a major freeway through our town's park. We sabotaged their equipment so often that they abandoned the plan for years, until we all moved away from the neighborhood. I went back recently and they have destroyed the last bit of wilderness in that city. They paved over paradise to put up a parking lot. As far as loaded, I use steel jackets and Russian steel core. I'm honestly waiting for the next uprising.
@bamboo4tameshigiri I agree, but there are better solutions than killing people, It will just result in them using such acts as a reason to limit freedom even further.
@LegendaryAsshole Its human nature. If things continue to trend, there will be an uprising; history always repeats itself. I'm not saying I plan to start it, but when it happens I will be on the front lines and I will have zero hesitation, remorse or regret.
@bamboo4tameshigiri We cannot, as a species, afford to have history repeat yet again. Our Y chromosome is shrinking, our fresh water is depleting, minerals and fossil fuels are being used up, forests are whithering, pollution is spreading, deserts are spreading, and without further developments in technology. Earth is fucked.
I still have other videos I need to make, but I had some stuff set aside for this issue specifically. If you have time and want to go to user/FriendsofBHMI channel and watch the latest 3 videos of the town hall meeting, you might find it disturbing and enlightening. What disturbed me were the people in the audience who were actually clapping. I'm guessing they were the golfer crowd, but I'm not sure. My city has just had to close down some schools and fire a whole shitload of teachers.
@tattooskin72 I really don't even know where to begin on this because things are majorly fucked up. Yes, this is about money and forcing the poor and non white, conservative Republicans out of these places. I knew this before the things in Detroit and Benton Harbor started taking place.
Fury is just too small a word.
PanWolven 10 months ago
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crazyboycid 10 months ago
The Paper Coup in action; Benton Harbor officials have been reduced to figureheads with no real power. Guess it won't be long before the Benton Harbor ceases to exist.
eumenidis 10 months ago
I've researched a little further and this town has proven time and time again that it can't take care of itself, but this can't be the answer. Something needs to be done for the residents who care, but this is power run amok.
letmeinustupidthing 10 months ago
@letmeinustupidthing You are a good soviet. Give up democracy for...what? My God, you neocon girls are idiots...
masercot 10 months ago
@masercot Please reread my comment: "...but this can't be the answer...this is power run amok"
Thanks.
letmeinustupidthing 10 months ago
@letmeinustupidthing My apologies...
masercot 10 months ago
Thieves.
Another crime spree that would be covered under the RICO act, were it not being carefully avoided, that it even exists.
DonQuixotedeKaw 10 months ago
I was born and spent some of my life in Benton Harbor. It pretty much sucked, but this sucks just as much.
modernoverdrive 10 months ago
Fuck corporatism. We need a socialism-capitalism hybrid NOW. The workers need a share of ownership in the company so that they have a say in all of the ways that business affects their lives.
M0US3P0T4TO 10 months ago
Rachel Maddow Rocks... i watch her every night...
IChoseTheRedPill 10 months ago
Thanx D I'm gonna mirror this
Elenkhos 10 months ago
armed rebellion anyone?
ThePariahLivesOn 10 months ago
This is fucked.
SgtDICTION 10 months ago
The most disturbing thing about this is the minimal attempts to hide it. That's called taunting.
Orygyn 10 months ago
I read about this Friday or Saturday and didn't believe it. This couldn't happen in the U.S.A., Rachael Maddow would definitly have a fit. Then it was like her last news item yesterday evening! Still, she's the only one that I know to report this. How can a community hold a legitamate election just to have the Gov. deem it null and void, which essentially what he did. This has got to be stopped!
MegaMoochie1 10 months ago
@MegaMoochie1 short of assassinations that isnt happening. They feel invincible, HOWEVER, assassination would help them in their goals too. as if someone kills them - they will have justification to limit freedoms.
Freedom is already lost, the best thing we can do is leave the USA, while staying put.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
I really really really hope the Republicans get their comeuppance. But of course that depends on the Democrats growing a spine. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
silversoul7 10 months ago
This HAS to be unconstitutional?
Good call - you & news anchor both ...
BrianJ1962 10 months ago
@BrianJ1962 This is unreal.
SgtDICTION 10 months ago
Behind every good uptown is a good slave population.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
This is soooooo fucking evil. What are those people supposed to do? Oh wait I forgot the GOP is notoriously racist/sexist.
shannyisme 10 months ago
Should the rich really start a power grab like this considering the number of guns in this country? Maybe they should check out what happens in countries where the poor far out number the rich. The rich usually find themselves a foot shorter after the poor revolt.
dgeypscun 10 months ago
@dgeypscun That is why they run FOX. Those who REALLY love their guns also love FOX.
dangerouslytalented 10 months ago
@dangerouslytalented agreed but I think fox gets faaaar more attention than it deserves. It's like the Brett keane of news broadcasting.
dgeypscun 10 months ago
Welcome to Fascist America!
MisterEvil1 10 months ago
Hey c'mon, this is for the public good. The new golf course will create at least a dozen minimum wage (Plus tips!) caddy jobs for the local residents, not to mention groundskeepers and some domestic servant jobs too!
No big surprise here, this law was always meant for developers to bypass recalcitrant local governments so they could do as they please without interfernce from the locals.
TheMudbrooker 10 months ago
@TheMudbrooker Read the fine print. The minimum wage jobs are less than minimum wage, and the tips are taxed.
dangerouslytalented 10 months ago
its for your own good... oh thats alright then.... for a moment i thought you were trying to screw us. we have the same shit about to happen here in the uk. Klein had it right in the shock doctrine, and to think i had thought that book hyperbole last year :-/ ho hum u live and learn
jimthepleb 10 months ago
That law makes it even easier for the rich to steal from the poor.
thethegreenmachine 10 months ago
I am not surprised about this. As a former Michigander/Detroiter corruption has and is so rampant. My family wondered why I left the state to find employment in other states...well this is just one of many huge reasons why. Another reason was that racism is extremely rampant in Michigan. It upsets me that so many people try to blame the black community for everything that is wrong with the state.
skeletonmom 10 months ago
Divinity, this has to be diffused before it gets worse, prove to me that voices and voting has any impact at all. Please.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
@LegendaryAsshole I'm already locked and loaded. I'm just waiting for it to start.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
@bamboo4tameshigiri As long as those are tranqs it's all good. do not kill over this, dismantle construction vehicles, salvage their parts and melt them down.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
@LegendaryAsshole I did that for a couple years when I was a kid. They were trying to build a major freeway through our town's park. We sabotaged their equipment so often that they abandoned the plan for years, until we all moved away from the neighborhood. I went back recently and they have destroyed the last bit of wilderness in that city. They paved over paradise to put up a parking lot. As far as loaded, I use steel jackets and Russian steel core. I'm honestly waiting for the next uprising.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
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@bamboo4tameshigiri Well, stop talking about it then. Or you will never see the light of day before you have the chance to act.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
@LegendaryAsshole More people need to act. I've already done my part.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
@bamboo4tameshigiri I agree, but there are better solutions than killing people, It will just result in them using such acts as a reason to limit freedom even further.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
@LegendaryAsshole Its human nature. If things continue to trend, there will be an uprising; history always repeats itself. I'm not saying I plan to start it, but when it happens I will be on the front lines and I will have zero hesitation, remorse or regret.
bamboo4tameshigiri 10 months ago
@bamboo4tameshigiri We cannot, as a species, afford to have history repeat yet again. Our Y chromosome is shrinking, our fresh water is depleting, minerals and fossil fuels are being used up, forests are whithering, pollution is spreading, deserts are spreading, and without further developments in technology. Earth is fucked.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
@LegendaryAsshole You're hardly living up to your username. Well argued :)
Ardreas 6 months ago
Jean Clock park is hereby protected by Ecythera. If it is touched there will be blood.
LegendaryAsshole 10 months ago
I still have other videos I need to make, but I had some stuff set aside for this issue specifically. If you have time and want to go to user/FriendsofBHMI channel and watch the latest 3 videos of the town hall meeting, you might find it disturbing and enlightening. What disturbed me were the people in the audience who were actually clapping. I'm guessing they were the golfer crowd, but I'm not sure. My city has just had to close down some schools and fire a whole shitload of teachers.
tattooskin72 10 months ago
@tattooskin72 I really don't even know where to begin on this because things are majorly fucked up. Yes, this is about money and forcing the poor and non white, conservative Republicans out of these places. I knew this before the things in Detroit and Benton Harbor started taking place.
tattooskin72 10 months ago
This is very disconcerting.
yermomsboxx 10 months ago