http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/08/10/rudy-giuliani-twin-towers-only-fell-because-i-couldnt-hold-them-any-longer/ Bill Wolfrum's world of satire and commentary Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:19:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/08/10/rudy-giuliani-twin-towers-only-fell-because-i-couldnt-hold-them-any-longer/#comment-40379 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:04:54 +0000 http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/08/10/rudy-giuliani-twin-towers-only-fell-because-i-couldnt-hold-them-any-longer/#comment-40379 [...] Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who has said that he had spent as much time at Ground Zero as workers there that suffered from illness due to the cleanup effort, is now apparently a member of the New York Yankees, due to the same reasoning. [...] […] Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who has said that he had spent as much time at Ground Zero as workers there that suffered from illness due to the cleanup effort, is now apparently a member of the New York Yankees, due to the same reasoning. […]

]]> http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/08/10/rudy-giuliani-twin-towers-only-fell-because-i-couldnt-hold-them-any-longer/#comment-39232 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:18:53 +0000 http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/08/10/rudy-giuliani-twin-towers-only-fell-because-i-couldnt-hold-them-any-longer/#comment-39232 [...] Via Digby, here’s Rudy Giuliani in a 1994 speech where he makes it resoundingly clear - submission to an authoritarian leadership is how he believes people are truly free: 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. [...] […] Via Digby, here’s Rudy Giuliani in a 1994 speech where he makes it resoundingly clear - submission to an authoritarian leadership is how he believes people are truly free: 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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