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Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at speakout@southtownstar.com or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 120 words and give your first name and your hometown.

I am so glad to hear Trump supporters were capable of making up their own minds and stormed the nation’s Capitol because, wait for it, they were not happy campers. And Biden, who wasn’t even the president at the time, is somehow responsible for blocking the truth because of some perceived radical socialist agenda. What planet are you living on? However, I do want to thank you because we can now attribute any rioting or looting by anyone, Black or white, as having non-happy camper syndrome.

Mike, Tinley Park

To RHS from Oak Forest. If this group, the Oath Keepers, you are so proud of is supposed to be defending our country from all enemies foreign and domestic, why in the world did they try to overthrow it on Jan. 6 when our country was doing its constitutionally provided election results. If these people that want to go around and play with guns in the middle of the forest feel they need to defend our country why don’t they join the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines and do some real good.

Janet, Tinley Park

Greg, Lockport says quit complaining about not being able to do things, get vaccinated. I agree, all who do not have fears about the effects of the various vaccines should get vaccinated. However, I hear our glorious leaders in Washington say if you have been fully vaccinated, you don’t need to wear a mask outdoors if not in crowds. What a breakthrough! Since the beginning of the pandemic “science” has said that if you are outdoors and not in a crowd, you have minimal to no risk of contacting the virus. So what exactly does being vaccinated allow in the minds of our “leaders” that science doesn’t already allow?

David, Tinley Park

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to colonize Mars by the year 2050. Shouldn’t we take care of the poorer people on planet Earth first? Wealth way beyond the basic comfort level is given to us for the purpose of helping our fellow humans.

JI, Oak Lawn

From the bottom of my heart I want to thank our 46th president Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., for putting all Americans first and making America great again.

Greg, Lockport