Oh, That Freedom-Loving Rudy

Yikes. Stalin couldn't have said this any more clearly.

"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."
--Rudolph Guiliani, 1998

I'll bet Rudy wishes he was still mayor of NYC this week, and personally directing the blunt-force "ceding to lawful authority" on the streets around Madison Square Garden. I sent the quote to friend Fred, who added the following comment:

They left out his next sentence: "And I am that authority".