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'We are living in a war zone': Atlanta's richest suburb edges closer to divorcing itself from crime-ridden city as bill goes up for vote next year
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 2 2021 | ALYSSA GUZMAN

Posted on 10/02/2021 12:43:21 PM PDT by knighthawk

Atlanta's wealthiest suburb is edging closer to separating itself from the city as it introduces a bill to Georgia's legislature that goes up for a vote next year.

With rising crime rates in Atlanta, Bill White, the CEO of Buckhead City Committee (BCC), is pushing for the suburb where the average house price costs $1.4 million, to 'divorce' itself from Atlanta.

'We are living in a war zone in Buckhead,' White told Bloomberg Businessweek. 'Shootings and killings, it just never ends.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; buckhead
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To: knighthawk

“where the average house price costs $1.4 million”

With that level of wealth, the FIRST THING that people there need to do is make damn sure Stacy Abrams and her clan don’t win office (or stay in contested seats). Next they need to find good conservatives* to win those seats, and give them tons of money. If all that happens, the state just may cut them loose. Otherwise, they’ll get to continue enjoying being part of ‘cosmopolitan Atlanta’, for eternity.

*for many of the buckhead people, that means sucking it up and voting REPUBLICAN, maybe for the first time in their lives. Sure, the ‘horrific and vile’ Trump is a Republican, but if they want to take their upper crust neighborhood out of Atlanta, they will need take the required steps...otherwise, no dice.


21 posted on 10/02/2021 1:32:20 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: nobody in particular

Buckhead is exactly the place the federal govt wants to rezone for housing projects.


22 posted on 10/02/2021 1:38:00 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: dragnet2

With their Thompsons and BARs the old time hoods where just more efficient that the present day hoods


23 posted on 10/02/2021 1:40:03 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: SGCOS

<>Buckhead is exactly the place the federal govt wants to rezone for housing projects.<>

That’s right. If they don’t divorce from Atlanta it will happen.


24 posted on 10/02/2021 1:43:54 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: setter

Don’t forget the dogs...for stealth keep at least one chow chow—they attack without barking and spring like a cat.


25 posted on 10/02/2021 1:46:15 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Kartographer

Trying to compare the frequency of crimes of today, to the crimes in the 20s and 30s just doesn’t compute. Not even close...


26 posted on 10/02/2021 1:54:21 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: knighthawk

Oh sure...declaring yourself independent from Atlanta means crime will stop at city limits!😎


27 posted on 10/02/2021 1:55:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rbg81

“But the bigger problem is Atlanta is going downhill at an accelerating speed.”

Gosh, I wonder what the problem is?...


28 posted on 10/02/2021 1:58:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: knighthawk

Demographics is destiny.


29 posted on 10/02/2021 1:59:07 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: knighthawk

....one compromise could be that if Buckhead represents 38% of Atlanta’s revenue then 38% of City Council folks need to “LIVE IN” Buckhead.

Our black friends (the majority) in Atlanta will NEVER EVER agree to that. So, one way or another, they will lose Buckhead.

Example: Public Schools. Hard headed NEA unionists, marxist/socialists ALL...........still control Public Schools. BUT, white and black middle class folks are just circumventing public schools and the NEA FRONT by building/organizing new private schools by the thousands while home schooling is expanding exponentially. Soon, public schools will lose tax revenue......like Atlanta is/will lose Buckhead tax dollars.


30 posted on 10/02/2021 2:03:33 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: setter

Rigorous policing will control the thug problem. Rudy G shows how that worked when he was elected Mayor in NYC.

Like most cities Atlanta has a Soros funded DA. Close the revolving door legal system by having your own police/DA/Court etc and the thugs will go elsewhere


31 posted on 10/02/2021 2:04:42 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Bonemaker

Like most cities Atlanta has a Soros funded DA. Close the revolving door legal system by having your own Police/DA/Court etc and the thugs will go elsewhere


32 posted on 10/02/2021 2:05:40 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: knighthawk

The problem is black culture, which celebrates or condones or ignores black crime, drives out good people of all races. The answer is to get away from it, as the government will not protect good people, and in much of the country, self-defense against black criminals will not be accepted.


33 posted on 10/02/2021 2:13:24 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: rbg81

There are two formerly wonderful malls in Buckhead, Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza. It is no longer a safe venue for families. Gangs, shootings and mayhem abound and Atlanta Mayor Bottoms is MIA. Men and women have been shot in nice neighborhoods, some people have died, and Mayor Bottoms does not care.
Apparently Mayor Bottoms has no intention to protect Buckhead citizens which is her job. Buckhead residents deserve to live in safety so they have no other choice than to separate from Atlanta City and form their own city with their own police department.


34 posted on 10/02/2021 2:19:48 PM PDT by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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To: PghBaldy

The Race Card don’t leave home without it !


35 posted on 10/02/2021 2:22:53 PM PDT by Reily
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To: knighthawk
Welcome to South Africa.

36 posted on 10/02/2021 2:28:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: knighthawk
A prime axiom of the multiverse is that the left effs up everything they touch.
37 posted on 10/02/2021 2:30:12 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: setter

They could just build gates and 10’ walls around the houses with broken glass on top like they do in 3rd world shite holes. That’s where we’re going anyway isn’t it?


38 posted on 10/02/2021 2:30:34 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: Husker24

Lefties won’t let 35% of the cities tax revenue leave.


39 posted on 10/02/2021 2:32:23 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: knighthawk
'We are living in a war zone in Buckhead,' White told Bloomberg Businessweek. 'Shootings and killings, it just never ends.'

Please Mr. White, explain to us how divorcing your town from Atlanta is gonna cure this disease.

40 posted on 10/02/2021 2:32:51 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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