Remember, This Man Wants To Be Your President

Rudy Giuliani, expounding in 1994 on his vision of freedom and the role of government:

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. [emphasis mine]

I'm sorry, how's that go again? Freedom is about authority and about the "willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do".

Am I the only one that heard both George Orwell AND Thomas Jefferson spin in their graves?

Since when is our only use of freedom, the only purpose of freedom, to be to hand it to the government to do what they want with our lives?

And this man wants to be president? This man wants to be the one who'll stand at the Capital Building and swear to uphold and protect the Constitution? This man who'd tell us we should hand over our liberties to the government so they can tell us what to do?

No way in hell...

[Update] - The Rocky Mountain Chronicle has a great breakdown on Rudy as mayor here. Reason Magazine's also been tracking Rudy and his fascist tendencies. Pick through a whole pile of highlights via Google here.