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Former Libertarian Presidential Candidate Harry Browne Passes Away
HammerOfTruth.com ^ | 03-02-2006 | Stephen Gordon

Posted on 03/02/2006 1:31:36 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus

Harry Browne, who was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, is reported by multiple sources to have died yesterday. I just confirmed the general information with Jim Babka of DownSizeDC. DownSizeDC intends to be distributing pertinent information by e-mail and on their website later this evening.

Pending a statement from family or friends, the best (speculative) published source of information about his condition is currently on Wiki:

"In June of 2005 an unknown neurological illness confined him to a wheelchair. After spending a considerable amount of time in the hospital, he resumed some of his writing and speaking, though it was uncertain whether he will walk again. He succumbed to illness on 1 March 2006."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: deathofapatriot; harrybrowne; libertarian; libertarians; lp; obituary; restinpeace
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To: NewRomeTacitus

Requiescat in pace.


102 posted on 03/02/2006 9:56:25 PM PST by Dajjal
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To: the tongue; LibertarianInExile

Interesting.


103 posted on 03/02/2006 10:22:07 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: smokehill

Sounds like he was a decent and very interesting guy...now if the party would just renounce Bill Maher...


104 posted on 03/02/2006 10:40:28 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Islamofascists don't need cartoons. They're already caricatures.)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

I seem to remember an interview he did with Art Bell one night. It was interesting. RIP, Mr. Browne.


105 posted on 03/02/2006 11:03:00 PM PST by newzjunkey (All I need is a safe home and peace of mind. Why am I still in CA?)
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To: JABBERBONK
O'Reilly Factor} and say ; " yes I agree with that, Bill I think if a 10 year old boy wants to go to his local pharmacy, and purchase heroin, then shoot up, it's OK with me"

You're a liar.
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106 posted on 03/02/2006 11:13:20 PM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: JABBERBONK
The quote can be found in the O'Reilly book " The Spin Factor"

What page is it on. I can't find in my copy of O'Reilly's faux book.
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107 posted on 03/02/2006 11:17:36 PM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: smokehill

"I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."





Can't argue with that.
RIP, Mr Browne.


108 posted on 03/02/2006 11:22:30 PM PST by onyx (IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
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To: Sam's Army

"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.


109 posted on 03/02/2006 11:25:02 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Sounds like he was a decent and very interesting guy...now if the party would just renounce Bill Maher...

Bill Maher's "I'm a libertarian" is part of his schtick. He's a liberal in real life.
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110 posted on 03/02/2006 11:28:02 PM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: x
Hmmm... HB ranted and railed against the "trap" of marriage in "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World."

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 ...

111 posted on 03/02/2006 11:33:32 PM PST by wideminded
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To: dread78645
"A 10-year-old child could buy drugs before the first World War in America. But they didn't, because nobody was plying them with it and it wasn't forbidden fruit. "

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.

112 posted on 03/02/2006 11:43:53 PM PST by wideminded
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To: NewRomeTacitus

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.


113 posted on 03/02/2006 11:46:34 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Sounds like he was a decent and very interesting guy...now if the party would just renounce Bill Maher...

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.

114 posted on 03/03/2006 12:29:08 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: wideminded
He did more or less walk out on his first wife and daughter... however, I have been given to understand that in later years his daughter recontacted him, and they had a cordial relationship.

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.

115 posted on 03/03/2006 12:32:26 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: JABBERBONK
Yes, yes what we need is a Libertarian N.A.M.B.L.A utopia of drugs and kiddie sex, where members of the military can walk off the job like workers in the private sector, and when police can be held liable for the legal expenses of those arrested and acquitted by a jury. You people are bizarre!

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

116 posted on 03/03/2006 1:11:08 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

RIP, Mr. Browne. You always were a gentleman and you fought the good fight.


117 posted on 03/03/2006 1:49:10 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: ShadowDancer

youre kind of an ass. i know, not eloquently put, but quick and to the point. chill out.


118 posted on 03/03/2006 2:31:12 AM PST by Zeppelin (Texas Longhorns === National Champions !!!)
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To: JABBERBONK

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.


119 posted on 03/03/2006 3:28:30 AM PST by StoneColdGOP (Doing the job Republicans won't do.)
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To: Element187; American Quilter; headsonpikes; the tongue; Issaquahking; jennyp; Billthedrill; ...
Back from work and WOW...the responses on this thread prove, once again, that Free Republic forum members are mostly the people one would wish for neighbors.

Thanks Element187, American Quilter, headsonpikes, the tongue, Issaquahking, jennyp, Billthedrill, Xenalyte, Huck, Bluegrass Conservative, feinswinesuksass, IronJack, jocon307, CounterCounterCulture, Dead Corpse, Larry Lucido, billbears, reelfoot, roses of sharon, TEEHEE, Tall_Texan, freepatriot32, Momaw Nadon, mhking, jsubstance, wardaddy, xzins, RushCrush, PGalt, Virginia-American, hosepipe, KoRn, Bahbah, solitas, Lancey Howard, Tribune7, traviskicks, GVnana, redrock, TheEaglehasLanded, Mad_Tom_Rackham, elenil21, Freedom_no_exceptions, Dajjal, newzjunkey, onyx, Extremely Extreme Extremist, Darkangel182 zbigreddogz, leadpenny and others who honor the passing of a great American without feeling a need to amplify his (few) mortal failings.

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.

120 posted on 03/03/2006 3:48:57 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus (I gave up mindless tolerance for Lent.)
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