I think Mr. Giago is "going off the deep end". He cites absolutely no real evidence of violence from anyone opposing Obama. The Tea Party protests have been peaceful, with NO incidents of violence, despite the hateful rhetoric that policticians, such as, Obama and Pelosi, et tal, have spewed against the peaceful protestors. Can Giago cite one threatening word against Obama from a protestor? Is saying that they don't like his policies a threat on his life? Giago needs to take a "chill pill".
The healthcare protests in DC, were peaceful, there was not one shred of evidence that any African American members of Congress were called names or spit on. That is a total myth perpetrated by liberal politicians who seek to make themselves into imaginary victims. If any threat was perpetrated it was from Pelosi and her marchers as they walked around through the crowd, with a huge gavel, what was her message?
Giago conveniently omits that it was a republican. Cantor, whose office was actually shot at, that is a fact.
I think Mr. Giago has forgotten which country we live in, we live in a country that allows for freedom of speech, and freedom to assemble, constitutional rights.
If we should have fear from any group it is the radical left, whose protests result in violence, such as the beating of an African American tea party protestor by an SEIU member. That is an actual fact. The radical left also leads the pro-illegal alien rallies, and many of those rallies led to violence, Santa Cruz was rioted and businesses vandalized. Police were attacked in Arizona during these illegal alien marches. So who should we really be afraid of? Peaceful tea party people, or the radical left who go about the streets, destroying public property and attacking innocent people?
I am very saddened that Giago gains a voice of credibilty by having his opinion posted as fact without any challenge to his mythology. I fear for our Native American community if we allow people like Giago to continue to go unchallanged and spew rhetoric that is wholly dishonest and untrue.
Leslie Stanhoff-Morgan
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Enrolled citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi
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