By: Diane Benjamin
Please note that Not In Our Town doesn’t care about hate speech from the left. It is a fraudulent organization created to stifle the right’s free speech.
NIOT has said nothing about this. I have reason to believe the author is a local elected official. If he thinks I’m offended by this Facebook page, he’s wrong. He’s not the first leftist to hide behind a fake name. I enjoy seeing what other elected officials are interacting with the page. There are a lot of them.
According to the comments, ISU and U of I should be considered hate organizations for allowing Charlie Kirk to TALK to students and dare them to think. Last year he talked to thousands of students at both universities. Discussions aren’t allowed in leftist world.
Two small kids don’t have a father, a wife lost her husband, and 3000 people witnessed the murder of Charlie Kirk – but he was evil. Sure.
What these people really hate is Christians. If you are on Facebook you can see the rest of the comments yourself. Don’t comment however – they thrive on hate. The hate from the left murdered Charlie because he was effective. That hate didn’t die with him. It did explode membership in Turning Point USA however.
Below are just a few of the comments. Is Diane Sodetz threatening to murder Erika?
‘The Second Coming’
By WB Yeats
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Hmmmm this fits:
Disposition Information
Case Number 2024CM000144 for:
DIANE KATHRYN SODETZ, born in 1970
Disposition Type Disposition
Description Plea
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 RETAIL THEFT/DISP MERCH/<$300 A Criminal Misdemeanor Guilty Plea
Withhold Judgement/Supervision Guilty
Friday, October 24, 2025
https://publicaccess.mcleancountyil.gov/PubAC_Disposition.aspx
I can't link to it directly, you will have to search her name to see it.
Thanks again Diane for warning us about the liberal myopic views of the organization that calls itself NIOT. Looking at its list of Steering Committee members, it is interesting to see common threads – https://niotbn.squarespace.com/233i67co563mlj4mt27ivdbhpjb25w (who chose them?)
Women leaders of local liberal religious organizations:
The Reverand Mollie Ward (Bloomington City Council member), Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe
Members of YWCA organization:
Camille Taylor, Janessa Williams, The Rev. Mollie Ward
Involved with DEI Initiatives:
Archana Shekara – (https://president.illinoisstate.edu/diac/), Janessa Williams, Yvin Shin, Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe, Camille Taylor, Mike Matejka
Directly involved in Inclusive Curriculum & School‑District DEI
Janessa Williams, Yvin Shin
Higher‑Ed DEI curriculum involvement
Archana Shekara, Rabbi Rebecca Dubowe
The League of Women Voters is represented by – Camille Taylor
There is not one voice on this committee that would dare to stand up for hatred in our town directed at a conservative person or cause. I fear the consequences of that.
I did not include all the links to reduce the length of this post.
Wow you are so right don’t respond to these people’s hate they thrive on it but it does beg one question for these &$:;/-@)(:!? what did Charlie Kirk do personally to you that it would fill you with so much hate that you would celebrate the death of someone??
They posted a few things he said and called it hate speech. Biblical principles aren’t allowed in their world.
Is this Christian? Its what he said after Paul Pelosi was attacked in his home with a hammer:
“If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out.”
There is a lot of stuff Charlie never said attributed to him like this. Watch 1 video of him
Nope. He literally said that. Its not hard to find the video of it. Just Google “Paul Pelosi Charlie Kirk.”
He asked for a patriot to bail him out so he could answer questions
I am sick of the hypocrisy of the “Not In Our Town,” “Coexist,” and other deceptive slogans of the DemonRats. And using their false higher moral ground positioning. They hide behind our religious freedoms to advance their demonic plans. I continue to stand behind my position that you cannot be a Democrat and a Christian. No way can you reconcile those 2 choices! JK
BloNo has turned into a little pimple on the nations arse. They hate Charlie Kirk because he called out idiots like these and asked them to support their crazy points of view. There are just two genders. There is one God. People should be free. And more non WOKE ideology. BloNo has changed a LOT in the years I’ve lived here, but the seeds have been here for a long time. ISU and Normal have always leaned left, Bloomington leaned right. That maintained the balance. But Bloomington got a left push a couple decades ago. Here we are today……