RE: No Straw Men: How Rudy Will Make GWB Look Good by k at 2:38 pm EDT, May 14, 2007
Decius wrote: Well, I've yet to find a candidate in this pack that I support, but there are clearly a few that I don't. Rudy Guiliani just moved from a maybe to an absolutely not under any circumstances. These are direct quotes from him:
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.
We're going to try to cut back on the Patriot Act. We're going to cut back on electronic surveillance. We're going to cut back on interrogation. We're going to cut back, cut back, cut back, and we'll be back in our pre-September 11 mentality of being on defense.
Better yet, check this YouTube video in which Guiliani literally laughs at Ron Paul's defense of Habeus Corpus:
Wow, fuck that guy. I didn't know he was that insane.