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Houston Street would like to thank the Taylorville Police Department for raiding this house that has been a nuisance for many months. We have complained to the Sheriff’s office about that house for months. We would like to see more presence from police in our area. I remember many years ago about annexing Hewettville and Taylorville. I believe this might be the best solution to help our little area become more safe.
Civil war
If you Want Civil War keep supporting him. Before Jan. 6, we could’ve rolled our eyes at this spectacle. But after Jan. 6, we do so at the “peril of our republic.” In Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday, Trump told the crowd, which included some self- identified members of a Trump-supporting militia group, that if Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot during the storming of the Capitol, had been “on the other side,” the officer who shot her would “be strung up and hung.” Before Jan. 6, we could’ve rolled our eyes at this spectacle. But after Jan.6,we do so at the peril of our republic. A supporter at the June 26 rally in Ohio said that if Trump is not reinstated by
August, “we’re going to be in a civil war, because the militia will be taking over.” It’s terrifying that as we get further from Jan. 6, a growing number of Republicans don’t see the attack as unjustified. Equally terrifying is that Trump’s rhetoric hasn’t changed since before Jan. 6, when his own words helped incite the onslaught of “domestic terrorism,” as the FBI has defined it. I desperately wish we could ignore the disgraced former president. But we can’t, because, as we saw specifically from his recent Ohio rally, he’s repeating the identical lies about “election fraud” that radicalized his supporters in the first place. Trump’s tour is especially alarming given the recent warning by the Department of Homeland Security about the growing threat of domestic violence this summer by “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists” and those “inspired by disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives.” We need to learn from the Jan. 6 attack to prevent it from happening again. Law enforcement agencies must view Trump as they would any other person who has incited people to commit an act of domestic terrorism. We must make it stop before We have met the “ Enemy from within”. If you Love your Country you must reject radical Trumpism and the accompanying hate and incitement to radical- ism in it’s entirety and a return to our norms of civility. Your Country is counting on you and the voice of reason. Will you answer the call?
Clean up
Nice job on trying to get our town cleaned up! now when people go to jail do they receive treatment to come off meth at that time? in other words what are our jail conditions?
