VDC/Burlington Daily News report
Burlington needs fewer asylum seekers arriving on buses from New York City and more divine intervention.
Those are two of the many perspectives expressed in the ‘man on the street’ (and outside city council chambers) interviews conducted by Burlington Daily News/Vermont Daily Chronicle Social Media Director Paul Bean Tuesday January 16 before, during and after he covered the City Council’s delaying of the police commission oversight charter change.
“I think there’s things coming down the pipe which I’m concerned about. I spoke to someone who said that they had had an interaction with an asylum seeker they said had been bussed up here from New York City,” Todd Deluca told Bean outside the City Council chambers. “I can’t help but wonder if that is going to be a trend that increases. New York City is struggling. They’re overwhelmed with asylum seekers right now, and Burlington is already overwhelmed with homeless people.”
Low-barrier VFW shelter more appealing than Elmwood pods for some homeless – “I asked one homeless person on Church Street what the best shelter in town was, and they told me that it was the [low-barrier former] VFW, because it’s laidback,” Deluca said. “I interpret that to mean you can do drugs without worrying about the cops. I said that surprised me, I thought it would be the Elmwood [Avenue pods] where you get your own place, own pod, but no, that place has too many cops.
“There’s needles everywhere. There’s an ATM on Church Street right over there and it often has needles in it or burned up aluminum foil. And then there’s the camping. So there’s just a general, I would say, lawlessness in Burlington right now.”
Rev. Marcus Szczecinski – highly visible to Burlingtonians as the bearded man carrying the cross giving coffee (“cream and sugar?”) to street people – applauds official Burlington for trying to make life better. But he says the city needs to call on God. He also sees many out-of-state people moving from warmer weather to minister to city residents.
Rev. Szczecinski – think what you will of his message – undeniably has indepth, daily encounters with the city’s large street population.
“The number one issue would be the drugs that are out there,” he said. “Drug related issues tie into everything else. It ties into gun violence, which ties into retail theft.”
As for solutions – “I’ve never seen a politician here in Burlington bring up God. That’s why the Lord has sent me out, to encounter people where they’re at in the name of Jesus. They [city officials] are doing a lot of great things. There’s Social Services, Mental Health Services, the Burlington Police Department has their community workers, they have a couple different tiers of police officers, there’s Burlington Park Rangers.
“They’re all doing a lot of really good things but they leave out God. They can’t name the name of Jesus. That’s what they’re missing.
Bean asks: do you believe that Vermont possibly as a whole has a spiritual problem?
Szczecinski replies: “The good news is that people around the country love the people of Burlington and God loves the people of Burlington and and what I’ve seen multiple times is that the Lord is sending people from out of state here in the name of Jesus.”
The interviews continue with two people fighting to stay housed and sober.
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Hunter came, he embarrassed and owned Gomer and all his gibbering baboon enablers, then he left.
Mission accomplished!!
Funny how GQP’ers always pull “Jesus” out of their nether regions whenever they have no solutions.
LOL! I love how secularists have zero clue. I’d get right with God ‘Bill’….tough times are comin.
Only because the Messiah rocks!!! And He is ALWAYS “top of mind”!
Yet, those who deny and discredit Jesus Christ make a mockery of themselves by displaying they fear something they claim doesn’t exist. Even Yuval Noah Harari (WEF false prophet) discredits God and denies His power. Yet, he can’t seem to stop himself from proclaiming he is more powerful than God and will alter God’s creations. If there is no God, why are so many afraid of Him and His Son? Why are so many worshipping Satan? Isn’t he the opposite of God? How does Satan exist if there is no God? Spirtual battles underway and spoiler alert: God wins!
Certainly the current way of handling things, both in Burlington and NY Metro region is working well. Your statement is invalid, as liberal politics has dominated both areas for decades- with the results unacceptable to even the liberals. Perhaps a renewed faith is required to pull all of the Northeast US away from the dystopian totalitarian future it is headed to.
Is there a downside to acknowledging the existence of a higher and benevolent being? Some peoples’ regarding the democrat party and big government as some kind of “benevolent being” has fallen seriously short of reality…
Also “funny” how those who claim to be his disciples will eagerly cast the first stone along with their ballot when they elect prohibitionists who punish people for their personal lifestyle choices.
“What you did to the least of my brothers you did unto me.”
Guy, I’m thrilled to see your growth and expanded coverage. It’s very exciting that you’ve been able to pull this off and thrive (huge kudos are due.) One thought – you might consider consolidating BDN and VDC under the one domain. Have BurlingtonDailyNews.net just redirect to a “Burlington” category of VermontDailyChronicle.com. Will be better for SEO, critical mass, cross-pollination etc.
Wanna solve the homeless problem in Vermont?
Outlaw Airbnb’s
Airbnb’s have become necessary for Vermont to accommodate tourism because the word is out that motels are either unavailable or unsafe due to being converted into flophouses for deadbeats and junkies…
My experience with Airbnb properties is the owners bolted out of here, couldn’t sell their properties at a fair price or sizable profit. So, they make coin off it to cover property taxes until they can unload it on another naive out-of-stater for enough profit to make it worth the effort. Airbnb is a third party profiteering off both.
Yeah. Sure. The throngs of drug-addicted & severely mentally ill (sometimes violent), unbathed individuals got that way through hard working, law-abiding citizens taking vacations in VT. LOL!!!!
You democrats ought to have your own show! Oh wait, you DO! It’s CNN, MSNBC, PBS, …………
burlington, vermont is a sanctuary city.
send a few busses their way.
bus already in route from albany new york to burlington vermont///
Why would someone, ostensibly from a town outside of NYC, come to a fairly obviously conservative online forum in another state and start throwing their weight around? Only one reason and it isn’t good.
I tend to stay away from the provocateur types. 😏
That’s just me.
I was bullied in grammar school (that’s what happens when you are the tallest person in school in the 5th grade) and learned that if you successfully act like they don’t bother you and you don’t care…
They eventually go away.
Just my two cents worth.
never fear/// your next president/// nimarata nikki randhawa haley/// will solve all of your problems/// governor in vermont supports her///this is her birth name///
So relieved to hear other folks with firsthand experience confirm what I observed on the opposite side of the state.
It’s just ridiculous that it’s “unconstitutional” to put residency requirements on benefits. And for the record, having safe drug use sites is “ENABLING” drug use and makes those that created, voted, financed and staffed as guilty as dealers and manufacturers and traffickers.
And without going into a dissertation: all, ALL of our societal problems are the result of industrialization, increase in disposable income (wealth) and subsequently an increase in free time followed by a move towards secularism. That made it so easy for the Marxists to slide in,. Destroy the very foundation. Benjamin was right. “If we can keep it.”
Again, just my humble opine.
So, the leftists in charge as always selectively pick & choose which laws they want to obey & which they disregard:
Case in point:
They MUST not impose any residency requirements…
But they CAN completely ignore FEDERAL LAW against illegal drugs – and open marijuana retail shops and “safe” injection sites!
Got it!
Leftists: Always complying with the Rule of Law, except when they’re NOT!
The federal government has no lawful authority to regulate drugs, check the tenth amendment.
tenthamendmentcenter.com
Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%
Half the shootings in Burlington, VT were linked to immigrants.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/vermont-resettled-somalis-shootings-are-up-185/
Burlington desperately needs fewer asylum seekers, but many more asylums – for housing the vast majority of the seriously mentally ill lawmakers of Montpelier.