“MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the National Guard and 300 additional troopers will be in Memphis as early as Monday, dozens are protesting their arrival.

More than 100 people took to the streets Saturday to say they don’t want the National Guard in Memphis during the Free 901 Protest.

The sounds of protests were heard outside of Juvenile Court and all the way to Memphis City Hall as Free the 901 protesters opposed next week’s arrival of the National Guard.” (Courtesy Yahoo.com)

Gosh. A whole 100 people. Memphis is a big city and polls show that the overwhelming majority of people welcome the arrival of not only the national guard. They are also glad that federal agencies like the FBI and the DEA are also supposed to be coming tomorrow.

As thehill.com reported, there is a reason for that…

“Memphis, the second-biggest city in the red state of Tennessee, tops the list with 2,501 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to data from the FBI.

The city has recorded 145 murder victims in the first eight months of the year. Last year, it experienced 40.6 homicides per 100,000, placing it fourth among cities with at least 100,000 residents.”

The rampant crime in the former City of Good Abode has taken its toll on the once beautiful and proud Bluff City.

“Memphis has a 2025 population of 607,581. It is also the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis is currently declining at a rate of -0.9% annually and its population has decreased by -4.35% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 635,225 in 2020.”

What has happened to this city?

Well, as someone who was born and raised in Memphis, attending the public schools there and graduating from the University of Memphis, I can tell you that it has been incompetency and corruption in the municipal government and all of the supposedly non-profit organizations which have sprung out from it over the years plus the cutting of budgets and benefits for both the police and fire departments which have all added up to its citizens fleeing for the suburbs and beyond that has led to this moment.

And yet, those who are in charge of the city, the county, and the combined school system are  against doing something about the rampant crime and corruption that Memphis and Shelby County face.

If you wonder why this is, and you haven’t figured it out yet, please watch this video of an interview with Judge Joe Brown who has been around Memphis for decades and “knows were all the bodies are buried.”

Just as it happens with all municipalities, it takes decades for corruption and out of control crime to get as bad as it is in Memphis, Tennessee.

It will only get better if changes are made in every area responsible for the crime, including the parents of the teenagers who are committing it.

If the Faith of Our Fathers, that once played such an important part in the everyday life of Memphians, is not restored and the basic family unit is not brought back to lead these children in the way in which they should go, some form of what we are seeing in Memphis and other cities will continue despite the government’s best efforts.

However, we have to try to clean it up now.

Innocent lives are at stake.

And, whether people realize it or not, the future of our Sovereign Nation is as well.

Until He Comes,

KJ