COMMUNITY COMMENTARY:Writer offers scare tactics, spin

Good try, Geoff West, really good spin. (“After elections, a frightening future awaits Costa Mesa,” Nov. 12, and “Don’t trust the city’s new majority,” Dec. 10).

Trouble is, West’s rants are nothing more than his usual dizzying spin on events when they don’t go his way. Can you spell sour grapes?

If you believe there was fabrication or deceit on the part of either Mayor Allan Mansoor or Councilwoman Wendy Leece in the recent election, name it. West insults the voters by declaring them confused, suggesting they are incapable of understanding for what they voted. He takes an alarmist position by insinuating that some persons’ rights have already been “trampled” and that the same fate looms on the horizon for the rest of us.

Now who’s using fear, as well as smear tactics and innuendo, to stir up division?

I am hard-pressed to understand exactly whose rights have thus far been trampled. If he is talking about the potential for illegal immigrants who commit major crimes to be arrested and deported, I fail to see exactly which rights would be trampled on. Help me here please. Intolerance of breaking into this country and committing a major crime doesn’t exactly add up to making the city a “bastion of intolerance.” It is not an “assault on the Latino population in our city” to advocate for those here illegally and committing additional crimes to be deported.

As for supporting the so-called infrastructure of that demographic group, the residents of Costa Mesa are themselves assaulted when their tax money is given to promote the never-ending expansion of so-called charities that act as magnets, provide others with cheap labor, and line the pockets of the heads of some of the charities, thereby creating a permanent underclass with little hope of achieving the status of full citizenship and full access to the American dream. This is charity?

I seriously doubt that West would welcome into his home and seat at his table someone who had broken into his residence. Yet that is what he expects of the residents of Costa Mesa.

West uses a crystal ball to look into the future and paints a dire picture: a “police state,” “under the heel of a virtual dictatorship,” “our city … with no diversity.”

One has to ask the question: On what exactly does he base his ludicrous predictions? Wouldn’t the more reasoned approach of giving the new council a chance make more sense?

Let’s hope Geoff West will take a deep breath, put his brain in gear and stop acting as though the sky is falling. Come on, Chicken Little, get a grip. Plant your feet firmly in reality and relax. You will feel a lot better, and we won’t have to read your rants.