by Dennis Dalman
Sartell resident Peter Wilson once again addressed the Sartell City Council and rapped it for a number of decisions it’s made.
Wilson spoke during the council’s Open Forum session during which residents can speak for up to three minutes on any subject they choose. The council is not allowed to respond to the comments, though the issues raised can be forwarded for discussion on the agenda portion of future council meetings.
In most of his Open Forum comments to the council in the past, Wilson often noted he was and still is a proud member of the John Birch Society, a right-wing group formed in the 1950s.
Wilson harshly criticized the council for its recent decision to help subsidize childcare businesses that expand their openings for more children in Sartell.
The city should have nothing to do with that, Wilson said. Doing so, he added, would only add to the inflation problem, and other groups will eventually come to the city for similar subsidies.
The oft-heard phrase that “It takes a village to raise a child” is a communist concept, and it needs to end, Wilson said.
He next challenged the council about “sustainability” trends, citing two: green steps for the environment and city’s designating themselves officially as “Welcoming Cities.” Those concepts, he said, are part of the United Nations’ one-world government plot to change culture and to reduce population.
A pigeon, Wilson said, did not suddenly fly over and drop that idea down on the world. It was the “Agenda 21” globalists, including the mayor of St. Cloud, whom Wilson said strongly promotes such globalist notions.
Finally, Wilson criticized the sale of city-owned land to be used mainly as a golf course.
“It will be a degradation of quality,” he said. “You shouldn’t have sold it.”
