Just because I have read this a couple of times:
''don't tell us what to do''
is double standard. It's your right to tell others to stop with what ever, but the sentence 'don't tell us what to do' shapeds a moral authority only around the speaker....like it's implying that it's justified if you tell others what to do, but not the other way around.
Propably that's even not what one means with that, but that's how I as a listener resieves the message.