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About Rudolph Giuliani. ⇒

   13 August 2007, late morning

"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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  1. That’s actually kind of fascism.

    by Matt on August 13 2007, 11:55 am   #

  2. Someone please help us. We’re so fucked down here.

    by Ben on August 13 2007, 2:39 pm   #

  3. I think you need a little search & replace (s/Freedom/Authoritarianism/gc) in that quote…

    Authoritarianism is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Authoritarianism is about authority. Authoritarianism is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

    It’s a bit of a tautology now, but at least it’s semantically correct.

    by Ryan on August 14 2007, 12:07 am   #

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