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.