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."
RIP
No we may actually have two parties then, instead of this one party system...
And that makes you what...a social Faciast? Funny that minding one's own business is called 'liberalism' (as if that actually had any meaning). If you're a 'conservative, i'd be ashamed to be one.
Or maybe you prefer the term Socially Tolerant!
Howzabout calling it staying the hell out of the lives of other people?
Harry is gone. I worked for Harry Browne in the early 90s. Truly a "Renaissance Man" -- gifted in so many ways. Few people know Harry composed and scored music. Couldn't write a bad sentence. Always kept his own counsel. He'll be missed.
Funny how things change... many neocon FReepers probably don't often reflect that Senator Robert A. Taft, known as "Mr. Republican," was a leading voice of isolationism prior to--and after--WWII.
RIP.
redrock
Forgot to mention.. Harry was always, ALWAYS a perfect gentleman.
Voted for Harry Browne is 1996, couldn't support either major party candidate. It's looking that way in 2008 too.
He was very good when talking about economics and government spending. Rest in peace Harry
RIP Harry. YOU were a Great American.
God Bless.
Lou Gehrig's disease?
Better to vote for the "anarchist" Libertarian than the spineless, beneath contempt Republicans who grovel at the feet of the Dems.
The quote can be found in the O'Reilly book " The Spin Factor" or better yet you can purchase the video from Fox, tell them it was the Browne interview show from 2000.
Hello? Republicans for Choice? Log Cabin Republicans?
Was he as angry a person as other Libertarians tend to be? They always seem to be fuming over one thing or another.
I remember the 1996 campaign well. He was graceful, polite, and optimistic - but most importantly, he carried himself like a major-party candidate. Of course, he knew he had no chance, but his insistence on being treated the same way as Clinton and Dole showed that he truly believed his ideas deserved a fair hearing. And after listening to Dole say that the vital difference between him and Clinton was that Clinton wanted government to increase by 20%, while Dole wanted it to increase by 14%, I finally realized that he was the only one with any ideas to begin with. Ideas that the libertarian-bashers on this thread either fear, don't understand - or are incapable of understanding. Otherwise, they wouldn't be falsely calling him a liberal.
He will indeed be missed.
"Mr. JABBERBONK, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." (from Billy Madison)
Seriously, can someone please post the Penn Gillette saying "Shut the f*** up!" graphic I sometimes see on FR? I haven't learned how, but a comment like JABBERBONK's warrants it.
O'REILLY: All right. Fine. Now let's go to the drug issue. Hard drugs: heroin, cocaine, what would you do with them?
BROWNE: Legalize all of drugs. Before we had drug laws in America, we didn't have one-tenth of drug problems we have today.
O'REILLY: All right, when you say you would legalize them, how would people be able to go buy their heroin and cocaine?
BROWNE: Before there were drug laws, Bayer sold heroin in the drug stores as a pain reliever and sedative in measured dosage, just the way it sells aspirin today.
O'REILLY: All right, would you have prescriptions for those drugs, or just anybody could walk up?
BROWNE: No, anybody could walk in. 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.
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