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By Michael Bielawski
A homeless person’s tent was lit on fire in a disturbing arson incident in Burlington, the victim had to be transported to the hospital but the injuries were not described as life-threatening. Also, the suspect in 2021 engaged with the City Council on homeless people’s rights.
The arson incident occurred on Friday, late in the morning at about 11:42 AM.
The police report which was released on Monday states that the BPD officers “responded to an encampment north of the waterfront dog park for a report of injuries from a fire.”
It continues that when officers arrived on the scene, they learned that a woman suspect had “set fire to an occupied tent.” This suspect was identified as Carol Layton, 39, of Burlington.
To read more about this, go to KVS EXCLUSIVE: Suspect in arson tent fire incident spoke to City Council on homeless rights
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Categories: Keep Vermont Safe, Public Safety
Between the mayor, Burlington City Council and Sarah George, she will walk.
Sounds like a homeless on homeless crime so we have to look deeper to see who has more victimhood credentials before we can surmise whether charges will stand.
But keep in mind, tent dwellers and tent arsonists…your tent is your home and lethal force can be used in the case of imminent arson of an occupied dwelling.
Homeless people have rights???? Yes, you have the right to get off your lazy …. and buy some land and built your own house.
Richard, Please think before you comment. Otherwise, just put another piece of wood in your stove.
Hmm. I met the person who was burnt and was where the incident happened. Through my church, we provide a Homeless Outreach program on Saturdays in Burlington. We provide hot soup, coffee, snacks, clothing, etc. Like most of the homeless, mental health was the primary driver of this incident. What’s needed is to institute greater personal responsibility and if they’re too mentally ill or drug and/or alcohol dependent, then responsibilities need to be imposed on them, for with rights, comes responsibilities. But the far Left dare not tread here, for who is to judge? Next stop? Nihilism.
Do not worry the city council have all the answers to solve the homeless rights as long as you taxpayers keep paying the bill. Excuse me, I have to put some more wood in my stove.
Golly, you mean many homeless people ARE actually mentally ill? as all studies and research has proven for decades?
Nice. Blame the victim… the whole point of homelessness is the absence of choices… not not making a choice. At any point in the long and slow fall to homelessness, family friends and community and church could have stepped in the prevented the fall… addicition is addiction – you don’t have control over it. But the rest is choice. When your choices are soul destroying or a severe threat to health AND mental stability… what choice is that?
More choices (not options but real choices) put power back in the hands of the disenfranchised.
NO ONE WANTS TO OR CHOOSES TO BE HOMELESS.
But there are plenty of people who refrain from helping when they could to help someone back on their feet, or just listen… refraining from judgement (but for the grace of God…)…
Superior attitudes help no one. As Tom shows, rolling your sleeves up helps. And ASKING what someone needs instead of telling them… they will tell you: I Need a shower. I need food. I need a winter coat. I need transportation. I need shelter. I need a friend…
So sick of noses down which most well cladded view the world…not in my back yard, eh? But it is… and therefore yours to handle.
Or ignore and answer to God when you get there..
A constant grasp for the obvious. The stigmas attached to homelessness are designed to make society care less about their fellow human beings. As far as mental illness goes, society by and large now suffers varying degrees of narcisissm, sociopathy, and psychopathy. Case in point, some say homeless people are drug addicted as they themselves wash down their prescribed anti-depressants, statins, roll up their sleeves for shots of unknown content, consume copious amounts of bio-engineered food and self-medicate with alcoholic beverages. All by design for decades. The Babylonian system, run like a soulless, faceless, nameless machine. All slowly, but surely degregating our once civil society into near collapse. The problem has always existed, it is designed now to be accelerated, and it is Agenda 2030 – depopulation, wealth transfer, reset. We are all targets.
So, the council located and then exploited a very obviously mentally ill and/or drug addicted woman to virtue signal to the City Council by expounding upon the “rights” of the unwell & addicted to commit violent crimes against others without accountability.
Got it. And another huge “BRAVO” to the City of Burlington for their wisdom. Been to L.L. Bean lately, btw goons? Oh, never mind. It and many other businesses are long gone from your landscape.
But you’ve got drugs and violent crime – so who’s the loser now, right??
VERMONT IS.
As long as we have acknowledged that most situations of homeless individuals are the result of mental illness and/or serious drug dependency, let’s take the analysis a step further. Another manifestation of those afflictions is antisocial behavior which tends to isolate a person from potentially helpful family and friends. Many of the homeless have burned their bridges with those who would most care about them and are in a position to be able to help them with basic needs. The state of Vermont through it’s overly-generous welfare cornucopia have taught people in need that they dont have to get along with and be nice to others to get by, but only to fill out forms and deal with a sympathetic case worker. The motel program and our tolerance for inappropriate encampments, perhaps justified for segregating people during the COVID time has provided privacy which has resulted in perpetuating bad habits and sometimes overdose deaths due to the isolation. Providing the traditional communal shelters provides social contact in a supervised setting, both with other people in similar situations as well as providing opportunities to interact with social service workers for guidance. It also provides a big cost savings to overburdened Vermont taxpayers. Most people have now accepted the concept that “shelter is a human right” and that those who are utterly incapable of prioritizing keeping a roof over their head should be provided some level of shelter paid for by the public treasury. We ought to make sure those dollars are spent efficiently and in a manner that encourages better socialization such as for communal shelters with reasonable rules of conduct and responsible supervision. They provide the need for basic shelter while not creating a huge incentive to draw more vagrants to the area, like the motel program has, adding to the “homeless” population and the crime rate.
A free motel room for months at a time is a powerful incentive for a free spirit to migrate here. Many Vermont taxpayers cannot even afford the luxury of a night’s stay in a motel room for themselves. We ought to encourage a system of social services that incentivizes people to be nice to each other, for the good of the taxpayers, crime reduction and to help those in legitimate need.
Now that I have had some time to read these comments, what is going to happen to all the people whom are in a mortgage foreclosure now and the people getting evicted for not paying rent. during the COVID SCAM DEMIC???? Do you think all of these people are mentally ill????? There are homeless camps in every state in this country and it looks like 2025 this is going to get worse with more massive layoffs of employees.