What’s to fear?

Yet again, fear-mongering extremists want to turn Spokane into a totalitarian dystopian city with political oppression, along with systematic discrimination based on ethnic and stereotypical racial profiling.

Why is there so much paranoia and unfounded fear in Spokane? What’s next? Do extremist elements want to build a wall around the city to keep out the riff-raff? Undesirables and terrorists as defined by whom?

I’ve long assumed that I was born and raised in a democratic republic, with freedoms defined by the U.S Constitution. I totally agree with The Spokesman-Review’s Jan. 7 editorial. Let the Spokane Police Department do its job in fighting crime, and the U.S. Border Patrol do its job.

I’m saddened to admit it, but extremist elements just might succeed in gathering the required signatures to bring an initiative to the voters to overturn the current immigration-status ordinance.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address.

Joe Rodriguez Jr.

Mead