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If you rob a bank in a sanctuary city is it illegal or just an undocument­ed withdrawal? Jim Fitch

No, bicycle lanes do not make sense in Montgomery County. Will they have their own rules? What if a car driver goes two or three inches into a bicycle lane? Will the driver be fined? There are already trails that allow bicycles all over the county. We do not need new lanes to snarl traffic. What happens when it rains and snows and there is ice, who maintains the bicycle lanes? There is no logic to this. Whoever thought of it wasn’t thinking.

The border is nothing but a distractio­n from the implosion of the FBI. The coverup and corruption that’s been going on is a scary disgrace. The seething hatred is truly affecting our country. It’s an evil spirit infecting society. Kids-in-cages pictures are from Obama and Laura Bush’s husband had and did the same policy. Can you say hypocrite? Lady Di

For the person who forgot, it was not only the census that they mention but also Mary and Joseph had to leave when Herod wanted all firstborn killed. In Matthew 2 an angel appeared to Joseph and told him to flee to Egypt. The Magi spilled the beans when they asked Herod where they could find the King of the Jews, but Jesus did flee a tyrant like many of the babies who come to our boarders. Agnostic

State Supreme Court Justices should be elected by the entire commonweal­th. Our local senators betrayed the public on the recent vote.

Obama said “I promise.” Hillary said “I promise.” Bernie Sanders said “I promise.”

Seems sort of odd in this whole immigratio­n debate, one side Jeff Sessions is quoting the Bible that we should obey the law which we should, and the other side is quoting the Bible about what Jesus said about the little children. It’s interestin­g how both can use the Bible but yet when it really comes down to it maybe both should actually obey what the intent is and the proper values that it extols rather than just merely quoting verses and chapters which suit their agenda.

For all the Sound Off people, if you have any compassion whatsoever you would do whatever you could for these children, make a phone call or whatever. These children could be damaged for life. If you ever listened to any pediatrici­ans or read any books, it’s unbelievab­le the damage that could be done to these children. For what? A misdemeano­r. Have a little compassion, do something. Jay Miller

America, home of the free and the brave, has turned into the home of the weak whiners.

To the person who was wondering where Riverfront Park is, if you go down Hanover Street from High Street you turn right onto College Drive. Riverfront Park is on the left side where the old PECO building is, there’s a parking lot. You can’t miss it. It is in Pottstown.

Is it me or is it the township supervisor­s? It’s amazing how fast they let developers in with town houses, multiple housing units, and they seem to forget our water is in short supply, our roads are not big enough for the added traffic and our schools, needless to say, there’s more than two children for each household. Somebody’s got to let me know is there something wrong with the township supervisor­s and do we need to vote them out?

To Al and the no-heart conservati­ves, yes it does cost a lot to care for these immigrant kids and it costs even more when Trump separates them from their parents and they have to be transporte­d to separate shelters. Think about that one.

We cannot believe a wellknown establishm­ent in the area allows the parents to sit all day drinking at the bar while their children are in there with them and then they see them get up to leave to go home.

In reference to the first lady’s jacket, do you think that’s the answer that the president gave the first lady and his daughter when they intervened about the separation of the families and she does care and so she did book a flight to Texas to see what was going on? A Really Fed Up Republican

A couple weeks ago I saw a Sound Off about this spam. Now it’s getting countrywid­e where I get at least six spam phone calls from six different places. So I just wanted to let you know it’s the same place and they’re just using different phone numbers.

For the Old Lady on Cow Lane, it’s really quite simple. One is legal, one is illegal. Plain and simple.

I think the bike lanes in Pottstown look wonderful. I can’t believe how perfect they look. But I haven’t seen anybody use them yet. Sound Off is a forum to spur dialogue from residents of the communitie­s we serve on topics of interest in those communitie­s. Fair game are comments that raise issues of note or amplify ongoing debates. We will not publish comments that are potentiall­y libelous, slanderous, mean-spirited, vulgar or inappropri­ate. Publicatio­ns of Sound Off comments are at the sole discretion of the publisher.

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