Rudy Giuliani
Occupation: Lawyer and Politician

Rudy Giuliani is currently running for President.

Quotes:

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.

Moderator Notes:

Overall Rudy is the antithesis of liberty. He is an ego maniac, authoritarian neo-con who respects rule of man over rule of law as long as he is the man.

Claims to have cut taxes, but opposed several tax cuts during his administration. Government was still bigger when he left than when he arrived. Opposes the Fair Tax. Likely to raise social security tax

Initiated what the New York Post called "a massive healthcare program"

Supported all kinds of boondoggles like sports $1B sports stadium.

Supports expanding the war on terror to Iran and the rest of the Middle East, continuing the perpetual war for perpetual peace regardless of how close it brings us to our own destruction.

Supports the patriot act, increased domestic surveillance, torture of us citizens without a trial, the UN, gun control, publicly funded abortions.

A leader in the drug war and other victimless crime witch hunts

Supported keeping thousands of Haitian refugees in detention centers

Believes the President has the authority to arrest U.S. citizens with no judicial review

In the 70s and 80s went after all kinds of white collar criminals and destroyed their lives to help his career. Many of these crimes were amorphous and certainly victimless.