Re: Two quotes about freedom

From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 10 1998 - 22:14:57 MST


In a message dated 12/10/98 5:36:45 PM Central Standard Time,
sasha1@netcom.com writes:

>
> "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 how you do it."
>
> - Mayor Giuliani, New York Newsday pg A3 4/20/98
>
> "State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and
> order in turn must conversely make possible the existence of state
> authority. Within these two poles all life must now revolve...
> Ideas of 'freedom', mostly of a misunderstood nature, inject
> themselves into the state conceptions of these circles".
>
> - Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
>
>

Point taken.

I, personaly, view all politicians with extreme skepticism. I value their
thoughts on freedom similarily to that of a prostitutes thoughts on virginity.

EvMick



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