The Deserted Garden, 18th Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Castor): There's crime in Atlanta, no doubt. There's crime everywhere. Just this week, there were numerous incidents in my very own neighborhood of someone rifling through parked cars late at night. One person reported that he had a handgun stolen, which brings up the question how fucking stupid do you have to be to keep your gun in the car overnight? 

But crime doesn't define our lives here. I don't worry going to the supermarket about getting jacked or mugged. I don't worry walking alone on the Beltline or on the Chattahoochee trail. I know better than to walk alone in low-income residential neighborhoods at say, 3:00 am, and if I were to find myself at a bar or nightclub at closing time, I'd be mindful of my surroundings, but crime and crime avoidance aren't a big part of my existence. 

Statistically, Atlanta is experiencing an overall drop in crime, including a decrease in homicides. According to the Atlanta Police Department, there was a 23% drop in the number of homicides in the first four months of this year compared to the same period in 2024, a bigger drop than the national average. The city has also seen a 39% decrease in vehicle thefts. 

Despite that, the Stable Genius decided that we need National Guard troops on the street to help assist the police, and sent his goony bird of a VP to Atlanta last week to talk about how bad the crime is here, and how we (meaning "we white people") deserve better.  Pentagon officials confirmed that up to 1,700 men and women of the National Guard were being mobilized to 19 states, including Georgia, to assist ICE with “logistical support and clerical functions” (yeah, right).

1,700 troops to 19 states means about 90 per state. Ninety goobers in fatigues hanging around checkpoints and high-visibility positions (you know that at least half of them will be right out in front of CNN's headquarters) won't make a difference in the already declining crime rates here. 

But we all know it just starts with a few military personnel and then escalates from there. We've seen this movie, this (un)reality TV show, before. We know how this one ends and we don't like this tired old script. 

Where are all those Second Amendment gun nuts right now? They didn't do jack shit about kids getting killed in schools, that's apparently okay with them, but wasn't the whole point to oppose tyranny - don't tread on me and all that shit? They're okay with federal troops on the streets of our cities? Of course, here in Georgia (probably elsewhere, too) the gun nuts are mostly out in the country and don't consider the dirty streets of Atlanta as "ours" - it's a "them" problem to them, not a "my" problem. "If you don't like the troops, get a job and stop jacking cars." 

But just wait until Stage II when more troops arrive, checkpoints become commonplace, and no one leaves home without their papers. By the time the outrage builds up, it will be far too late to do anything, as if some redneck and his AK were going to turn the tide of justice, anyway. Dumb-ass peckerheads.

Elections have consequences. The consequence of November 5, 2024 was the end of the United States as a free country. This nation built on the twin pillars of African slavery and indigenous genocide is meeting its karmic fate. Don't say we didn't warn you.