by Dennis Dalman
Sartell resident Peter Wilson, once again, blasted the United Nations and – indirectly – the city council during the March 13 council’s Open Forum session during which pre-registered residents are permitted to talk for three minutes each.
At many previous council meetings, Wilson speaks loudly, firmly, politely. At times, he veers off into a kind of sing-song sarcastic delivery when excoriating the United Nations. He maintained at the March 11 meeting, as he has so many times before, that lots of many governmental decisions made in the United States, including in Sartell, were and are being initiated by the United Nations. Those United Nations notions have become integrated into council decisions, he insisted.
“I am opposed to it, I am greatly opposed to it,” he said. “I have been opposed to it since I became aware of it decades ago.”
Wilson has described himself as a proud member of the arch-conservative John Birch Society. He said the United Nations promotes radical environmentalists for their “desire to reduce human population and the development of food.” Such ideas have expanded greatly throughout the years, he maintained, citing the introduction of such programs as “Welcoming Cities.”
“Why were they (programs) introduced and why do they continue?” he asked.
Then Wilson proposed the council call for an open meeting lasting a couple of hours to review all those “United Nations” programs and why and how the council came to approve them. The meeting, he proposed, would be a way for the council to review all those programs, one by one, and they could then take comments from the public pro and con.
Such nefarious programs, he said, are manipulating “our lives and our schools.”
Wilson closed by saying he is willing to donate money to implement classes at the high school in which the effect of solar panels recently approved by the city could be studied. Those effects would include the effects on land and water of potential contaminants, including possible radiation.
“Thank you!” Wilson said, ending his talk.
The council thanked him for his comments.
