Thursday, May 17, 2007

Giuliani: "You have free speech so I can be heard."

From NYC's ex-fuehrer, Rudy "You have free speech so I can be heard" Giuliani: 'Freedom Is About Authority':
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.
And at what point, Rudi, does legal authority cede to your other acceptable definition of authority, personal responsibility? Or is it that wrapped in your nutshell is the belief that one's only personal responsibility is to cede to authority?

HT -- K. Redding

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