Freedom is about authority?

Rudy Giuliani wants to be president and run our lives with authority like he did NYC. Don't believe me? He said it himself: "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 only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of 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."

Amazing. Reminds of that film, Sir, No Sir! that had a shot of the entrance to the army gulag the protesters were thrown in. The sign at the top of the gate said: "Obedience to the Law is Freedom."