Behind Closed Doors, Martha's Vineyard Liberals Reveal Their Hypocrisy
Paul du Quenoy , President, Palm Beach Freedom Institute
On 9/19/22 at 6:30 AM
DeSantis Slams 'Sanctuary' Cities After Flying Migrants To Martha's Vineyard
"At some point in time, they have to move somewhere else," Martha's Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator Lisa Belcastro told local media after two planes carrying illegal immigrants landed at her "sanctuary destination" island's only airport, courtesy of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. "We don't have housing for 50 more people," Belcastro implausibly claimed for an island community of 17,000 permanent residents that houses as many as 200,000 people every summer.
In the island's offseason, 63% of its homes, whose median value is $1.35 million, are vacant. Former President Barack Obama's property alone reportedly has 10 bedrooms. As of this writing, Airbnb offers 355 vacancies. Nevertheless, not one of the Vineyard's residents, nearly 80% of whom voted for Joe Biden, is on record having offered an extra bedroom, guest cottage, pool house, basement, unclaimed rental, gazebo, or tent to accommodate the migrants, who slept in a church hall. Instead, liberal residents congratulated themselves on their "compassion" for providing basic services for less than 24 hours before soliciting donations on the internet and demanding government solutions.
A GoFundMe campaign collected $43,000, enough to buy each migrant a new moped. If you haven't heard of a "Mopeds for Migrants" program, don't be surprised. Within 36 hours, the new arrivals were gone, deported by bus and ferry to the mainland—perhaps past a now-ironic official sign proclaiming that Martha's Vineyard residents "stand with IMMIGRANTS, with REFUGEES, with INDIGENOUS PEOPLES."
These indigenous refugee immigrants, however, were speedily "offloaded" at Joint Base Cape Cod, a military installation now housing them in "dormitory-style accommodations." They were "escorted" by 125 Massachusetts National Guardsmen, mobilized to address the "humanitarian crisis" posed by four dozen poor people of color. That's 2.5 Guardsmen for every man, woman, and child—ensuring that even the most delicate petal in any Vineyard flower bed wouldn't be disturbed during the affluent and overwhelmingly white island's ethnic cleansing. Video of residents gathered to see the migrants off shows them cheering the restoration of pale normality as the buses departed.
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If these sobering facts suggest Vineyard liberals are hypocrites unwilling to be the very change they wish to see in the world, a dive into their internal chatter confirms it. Nobody with Vineyard connections agreed to speak on the record for this article; all of those in contact feared retaliation from neighbors who sound far less tolerant than their "In This House, We Believe..." signs might suggest. Vineyard informants and the New England journalist Aidan Kearney, however, have provided screenshots from "closed" online island discussion groups, where residents revealed their true feelings."
https://www.newsweek.com/behind-clo...berals-reveal-their-hypocrisy-opinion-1744032
Paul du Quenoy , President, Palm Beach Freedom Institute
On 9/19/22 at 6:30 AM
DeSantis Slams 'Sanctuary' Cities After Flying Migrants To Martha's Vineyard
"At some point in time, they have to move somewhere else," Martha's Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator Lisa Belcastro told local media after two planes carrying illegal immigrants landed at her "sanctuary destination" island's only airport, courtesy of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. "We don't have housing for 50 more people," Belcastro implausibly claimed for an island community of 17,000 permanent residents that houses as many as 200,000 people every summer.
In the island's offseason, 63% of its homes, whose median value is $1.35 million, are vacant. Former President Barack Obama's property alone reportedly has 10 bedrooms. As of this writing, Airbnb offers 355 vacancies. Nevertheless, not one of the Vineyard's residents, nearly 80% of whom voted for Joe Biden, is on record having offered an extra bedroom, guest cottage, pool house, basement, unclaimed rental, gazebo, or tent to accommodate the migrants, who slept in a church hall. Instead, liberal residents congratulated themselves on their "compassion" for providing basic services for less than 24 hours before soliciting donations on the internet and demanding government solutions.
A GoFundMe campaign collected $43,000, enough to buy each migrant a new moped. If you haven't heard of a "Mopeds for Migrants" program, don't be surprised. Within 36 hours, the new arrivals were gone, deported by bus and ferry to the mainland—perhaps past a now-ironic official sign proclaiming that Martha's Vineyard residents "stand with IMMIGRANTS, with REFUGEES, with INDIGENOUS PEOPLES."
These indigenous refugee immigrants, however, were speedily "offloaded" at Joint Base Cape Cod, a military installation now housing them in "dormitory-style accommodations." They were "escorted" by 125 Massachusetts National Guardsmen, mobilized to address the "humanitarian crisis" posed by four dozen poor people of color. That's 2.5 Guardsmen for every man, woman, and child—ensuring that even the most delicate petal in any Vineyard flower bed wouldn't be disturbed during the affluent and overwhelmingly white island's ethnic cleansing. Video of residents gathered to see the migrants off shows them cheering the restoration of pale normality as the buses departed.
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If these sobering facts suggest Vineyard liberals are hypocrites unwilling to be the very change they wish to see in the world, a dive into their internal chatter confirms it. Nobody with Vineyard connections agreed to speak on the record for this article; all of those in contact feared retaliation from neighbors who sound far less tolerant than their "In This House, We Believe..." signs might suggest. Vineyard informants and the New England journalist Aidan Kearney, however, have provided screenshots from "closed" online island discussion groups, where residents revealed their true feelings."
https://www.newsweek.com/behind-clo...berals-reveal-their-hypocrisy-opinion-1744032
