by Dennis Dalman
A Sartell resident raised several concerns at the Sartell City Council at its July 10 meeting.
Peter Wilson spoke for three minutes during the “Open Forum” segment of the meeting.
The sale of the golf-course land by the city to a private developer was not a good idea, Wilson asserted.
“It wasn’t done right!” he said, comparing it to the sinking of the Lusitania, of which Wilson said he had just read a book about. The Lusitania was a huge British passenger ship that was hit by German torpedoes and sank off the coast of Ireland in 1915, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.
That ship, Wilson said, was unescorted and was carrying armaments, suggesting that it too wasn’t done right, like the city’s land-sale decision.
Wilson said he has been a strong member of the John Birch Society since 1981. For more than 60 years, John Birchers noted the police are the main barrier that guards against authoritarianism, globalism and the loss of freedom in this country. With that in mind, Wilson said he would like to thank the new Sartell police chief (Brandon Silgjord).
Other concerns Wilson raised:
Carbon-capture efforts on behalf of the environment. They should be forbidden, he told the council.
Disposing of bodies, such as recycling them, ought to stop.
“That offends me as a Catholic,” Wilson said.
Vaccinations, cities designating themselves as “Welcome Cities,” anything to do with the “Green” (environmental) movement are all bad because they originated at the United Nations, which Wilson claims promotes globalism (one-world government).
