If agree that most of think this is the way it should work. Unfortunately, the official report seems to indicate that the residents of Ferguson WERE living under rules and practices that are far different than other communities. They were being systematically targeted for city revenue. If the citizens were somehow able to pull the same thing on the city, I suspect they'd be labeled as "Economic Terrorists". It's hard to believe that any of the Johnny Badasses around here would put up with that BS without verbal or violent pushback.

In many of these cases, there is a lot of potential chicken and egg arguments but there is a very clear pattern in societies that says you best keep ENOUGH of the population content and hopeful otherwise violent uprisings are the natural outcome. There are obviously pockets around the world, including the U.S., where the balance is too close to the line.