[Dan from Michigan]

Can someone tell me what the blue hell tossing money at this will do? Benton Harbor residents burned their own city down, and the rest of the state has to pay for it? What's to say that it won't burn down again after the next car chase?

It should never take violence to have elected officials pay attention, but we are going to move forward and we are going to pay attention."

Message. Riot and we listen...

It's simple. If BH wants to come back, they have to do it themselves, and take a stand against the bad guys. They need to improve their schools. They need to watch their neighborhoods and go after the scum.

"They can't keep all these extra enforcements out forever, and when they're gone, something else is going to happen."

Bingo.

[Chi-townChief]

Just like LBJ's Great Society slogan: "Burn one down, get one free!"

[OldFriend]

There are Benton Harbor's all over this country. Places where there is no parenting, no emphasis on getting an education, no effort to combat the street hoodlums who destroy the neighborhoods.

Places where policing is considered the problem rather than the solution.

Places where every excuse known to man is made for those who prefer to blame everyone but themselves for the condition of their neighborhood.

[Bodacious]

To really get the process started, the Mayor should get a restraining order against the Rev. Jackson.......

[Enterprise]

I want to send in some Royal Marine snipers to deal with rioters who beat and stab innocent bystanders.

[Onelifetogive]

Gov. Jennifer Granholm pledged Thursday to devote state resources to finding answers to the poverty, crime and racial tension that helped ignite the rioting.

Isn't she a Dimocrat. I didn't think poverty existed under Dimocrat administrations...What gives???

[Alberta's Child]

Berrien County emergency management officials said 21 homes burned down in arson fires at a loss of $350,000.

Note to Self: Don't ever invest a nickel in a place where the average home has an appraised value of less that $17,000.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm pledged Thursday to devote state resources to finding answers to the poverty, crime and racial tension that helped ignite the rioting.

Note to Ms. Granholm: Instead of spending valuable state resources to find these answers, you ought to just face up to one cold, hard fact: A neighborhood in which a demented 28 year-old @sshole who drives a motorcycle into the side of a building can trigger several nights of rioting is beyond redemption.

[Bahbah]

"Can someone tell me what the blue hell tossing money at this will do?"Actually, Dan, I think I can. The money will go into certain well chosen "community activists" hands. Once paid off, these activists will keep things quiet. Nobody's life will be improved, however, but Granholm doesn't care about that. She just doesn't want a political embarrasment.

[Old Professer]

During the Rodney King riots in California, one of the TV newsmen made the comment that some of the buildings being burned and vandalized were the same buildings that were burned and vandalized in the Watts' riots almost thirty years earlier; they did have a more diverse group of rioters the last time though, as many of the original black residents had moved out and Hispanics had moved in; the main LAPD station on Parker Center was a primary target as well.

Maybe we would be better off if the police just left these areas if all that is going to happen is a riot when they try to arrest someone.

[No Spin]

Here we go again, Same old Same old.Must not be enough free stuff in Benton Harbor for all those losers. This would be a good chance for Jesse Jackoff to drop some of that money he ripped off his followers. Gov.Grandholm says we have No Money, watch her find some real quick, (in my pocket of course).

[A CA Guy]

The loss of 21 homes came to $350,000 there.
Are they made of tin or what?
A SINGLE wretched home around me cost about $400,000.
How can they make 21 homes for $350,000?

[PGalt]

"The root problem is not a high-speed chase. The root problem is deeper than that," Granholm said.

The root cause of the problem is that an individual's irrational actions were a direct cause of his own death, and property was destroyed by criminals without repercussions. Granholm is in way over her head. Lousy attorney general. Clueless as a governor.

[Bernard]

It's simple. If BH wants to come back, they have to do it themselves, and take a stand against the bad guys. They need to improve their schools. They need to watch their neighborhoods and go after the scum.

They have to start by getting married, so there is a Dad in the house. The rest of it won't come without stable family lives.