The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life

I don't suppse it matters to you that being a capable administrator was a characteristic of all the tyrants of the past, and that this led the people they governed to accept them as absolute rulers. Once that happened, it was too late to turn back.

Though sworn to uphold our Consbreastution, by the end of 2002 the courts had found Giuliani in violation of the First Amendment TWENTY SEVEN TIMES. Mayor David Dinkins, his predecessor in office, bravely stated that Giuliani is " - a bully, mean-spirited, and he rules through fear and intimidation." New York's previous mayor, Ed Koch, has said that Giuliani " - uses the levers of power to punish." Among the many arrogant abuses of power by "mayor morality" was the buttignment, at taxpayer expense, of several NYPD detectives as round-the-clock bodyguards for his MISTRESS. Giuliani's vile racism has even been acknowledged by his successor, Mayor Bloomberg: "You forget that every single decision in the Giuliani administration, everybody, every story, everything was always couched in terms of race" - quoted in the November 4, 2003 Daily News from Vanity Fair magazine.

But the tyrant's own words say it best:

" - 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 AND HOW YOU DO IT." - Mayor Giuliani, quoted in the New York Times, March 17, 1994.