Posted on 03/02/2006 1:31:36 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
Requiescat in pace.
Interesting.
Sounds like he was a decent and very interesting guy...now if the party would just renounce Bill Maher...
I seem to remember an interview he did with Art Bell one night. It was interesting. RIP, Mr. Browne.
"I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."
Can't argue with that.
RIP, Mr Browne.
"However, comments like this after 9/11 from Mr Browne caused me to shift away from the LP for good..."
Dittos. It showed that beneath all the glib talk, he had a mind of mush.
But RIP.
It came across to me as if he was justifying walking out on his family. I was going to be magnanimous and avoid bringing this up, but since you already did ...
Yes they did. I once read an account of someone who was introduced to heroin as a kid in the 1910's. You could buy the pills in a drug store. The author described how he was shown how to crush the pills and sniff the powder through a quill from a feather.
I send my best wishes to his family, and I'm sure he was a good man personally, may he rest in peace.
That said, on Foreign Policy issues especially, Brown was a raving lunatic.
Unless your only response to 9/11 would have been to put a price on Osama's head and call it a day.
I'm a libertarian, and nowhere have I seen that the Libertarian Party claims Maher as a fellow traveler of any kind. I seem to recall that when Maher claimed to be a libertarian (whether big or small L), a lot of people were on the verge of barfing. I don't know any libertarians who claim that Maher is one of us.
I think that at the time he broke up with his wife, he decided not to contest her getting custody of their daughter. I get the impression that he saw no point in having much contact with his first wife.
I was also troubled by him seemingly walking out on his daughter... but I was glad to hear that they finally did work out their relationship.
Ok i will ask you nicely. would you pretty please go back to DU ?They really miss your posts over there.And please stop pissing on the grave of a man that is so much better then you in every measurable way that your not worthy of licking day old dog poop off of his shoes
RIP, Mr. Browne. You always were a gentleman and you fought the good fight.
youre kind of an ass. i know, not eloquently put, but quick and to the point. chill out.
You are just SUCH an ass...
You can't take ONE line and define it as libertarianism, then try to toss in the tired old anarchist and drug addict lines.
If Libertarians had elected officeholders you just might recognize this country today as the Republic it was meant to be.
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Gold star for you, Dane. You may join the rest of the class for milk and cookies. Sitting in the corner all the time is not productive.
Coercer - Your post stands on its own: "Browne lost all respect when he compared Zell Miller's RNC speech to Joseph Göbbels." 45 posted on 03/02/2006 5:48:42 PM CST by COEXERJ145 (Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
You managed to get in that little bit of extra nastiness in your tag line. Don't be surprised if people you know expressly forbid you to speak at their funerals.
GVnana: Condolences to you who personally worked for Mr. Browne. I appreciate your mention of him being a perfect gentleman - something all Southern men with any sense of self-respect still strive for. It's not about rocking on a veranda with a mint julep...it's about smiling while the militant crew-cutted woman curses you for holding a door open for her. Deeds not words.
Zbigreddogz & Billthedrill (real men are named after power tools): Browne was fiercely nationalistic to the point of isolationism - saying that other countries problems are theirs to deal with and if we devoted the resources we waste on their problems to our own we'd be living in a virtual paradise. He had a good point there as we see our riches being bled off by bribes masked as trade agreements accomplishing more evil than good. His Free Trade stance was based on balance and responsibility; not the free-for-all this administration helps perpetuate at the expense of American laborers/tax providers. Browne was not down with the NWO.
Granted; he did go off on a tangent where he thought radical Islam could somehow be avoided or isolated. I have to believe much of that was the disease and the medication talking, especially since those responses weren't preceded by the thought-marshaling pause the man was so well known for. I pray that I'm taken out before my mind falters. This website is littered with those that haven't been so lucky (heh heh).
Extremely Extreme Extremist: "I guess most people on FR enjoy the status quo of having reckless government spending, high taxes, and diminishing Constitutional freedoms, all brought forth by the two political parties who pretend to be different." Reply by Darkangel182: "I guess some do, although whenever I say the parties are almost the same (and they are), I get b-tched at."
It's true, they all know it's true and it's been true from the time "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" came out. High-dollar contributors play the flute our initially well-meaning representatives eventually dance to or they end up grumbling with the other excluded wallflowers until removed. Mr. Browne was straight up about being loyal to "the ones who brought you to the dance" (the constituents)...he regarded the cheap and flimsy Libertarian Party membership card a badge of honor that literally illustrated how they never take one dime of the taxpayers' money for their funding - despite being eligible through that check box on everyone's tax forms. Principle. Word, as the kids say.
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