“We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. ”
Guess which famous contemporary politician said this? Rudy Guiliani said this!
Vote Ron Paul! Or if you won’t, at least don’t vote Guiliani! That man is frightening.
Sites which also record the quote:
http://mylittlepouch.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-semi-deliberate-and-nonetheless.html (This is where I first found the quote.)
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/121958.html (This was the first non-blog source I located for it.)
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/08/11/rudy-in-1994-freedom-is-about-authority/ (This probides a bit more context)
Yes, do vote for Ron Paul, so that our Nation can be handed over to Islamic Extremists.
That’s Ron Paul’s foreign policy agenda: Cut, run and surrender.
Have any Jewish friends? Well, under Ron Paul, not any more. He’ll be the first to hand them over to the Radical Muslims to be carted off to the Gas Chambers.
Have any Gay friends? Well, tell them to hold onto their balls, cause they won’t be having them for too long in Ron Paul’s America. You see Ron Paul’s Radical Muslim friends like to cut off the balls of Gay men.
You say you like to gamble and smoke weed. Sorry. All of that will be banned in Ron Paul’s Radical Islamic America.
So, Giuliani wants to fight the Radical Muslims, and Ron Paul wants to surrender to them.
Whose the “authoritarian” again, exactly?
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You know Ron Paul has often been accused of being an Anti-Semite. Having worked for the guy for 12 years, I wouldn’t call him an Anti-Semite. But he’s awfully damn close. Certainly Anti-Israel, and “not friendly” to Jewish Americans.
(He was repeatedly critical of the few Jews we had in our Congressional District in Victoria and Wharton.)
And of course, David Duke is now singing Ron Paul’s praises on his website on a daily basis.
Is it just a coincidence that his anti-Israel agenda coincides prefectly with the agenda of Radical Muslims?
Nah, couldn’t be any connection there. Just a coincidenc.
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Dondero, you’re defaming me by accusations of gambling and smoking weed. I support the rights of others to do such things. I don’t do them myself.
I believe that through your comments you do injustice to yourself and such thoughts of value as I have seen you to hold in other places. This is the result of faulty logic and support of tyrannical governance at home. However, as I don’t believe in protecting others from their own uncoerced actions, I will not remove your posts from this site.
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[...] Rudy Giuliani: “Freedom is about Authority” Move over Stalin, let Rudy come over: We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. [...]
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