Comments on: Harry Browne, RIP

By: NathanNV

NathanNV — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:28:11 +0000

In America during the great Deppression of 08, many Americans have become aware that the International banking Cartel that own’s the United States was directly involved and even helped facilitate the Arabs who were used as Patsys to carry out the International banking cartels goal of destroying Americas Constitutional freedoms and ensuring endless corporate warfare.

Harry Browne was right!

We have killed 1 Million Muslims since The Zionist Bankers attack on America. I have been to Islam and was never threatened because I would not pray.

I find myself agreeing with George Patton more and more all the time. I wish so many Anglo and German people had not been slaughtered unnecessarily. I am not a racist, but the truth is the Zionist Warmonger has murdered so many of my hero’s.

By: Tony Miranda

Tony Miranda — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:50:24 +0000

I read all of Harry’s books as a young person and believe in his investment advise, period. Politically he had problems believing in the real enemy. Brought to its ultimate conclusion, with his philosophy, those of us lucky enough to survive would now be speaking German. Or worse facing Mecca on a prayer rug under penalty of death

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:58:55 +0000

I met Harry Browne once–briefly–at a marijuana legalization rally that I had a small hand in organizing. I remember him as a gracious man and an excellent speaker.
It should also be mentioned–I believe this is true–that, during the 2000 campaign, he was the first LP Presidential candidate to air TV ads on a national network. I will never forget the thrill of turning to my UPN affiliate and seeing the anti-War on Drugs ad his people produced. By Neilsen estimates, 2 million people saw that ad at the same time I did. What a great and timely message. Thank you, Harry Browne, for teaching us how to live free in an unfree world.

By: Eric Provost

Eric Provost — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:08:42 +0000

We have lost a great man.

By: bilgepumper

bilgepumper — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:16:51 +0000

I too had my philosophy validated by Harry’s writings. “How I Found Freedom In an Unfree world” was awsome, I’ve shared it with my children and numerous family and friends. I doubt I can ever vote for a dempublican or republicrat again.

Who can carry the torch??

bilge

By: Paul E. Smith

Paul E. Smith — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:08:32 +0000

What stands out about Harry?
His fiery books from “How I found Freedom…” and “How to Profit from the coming devaluation?” Both of thesse were seminal events in my life. I still have the coins I bought @ $35/oz in 1973.
No not this, nor his great speeches.
Simply, he was a kind, gentle, and thoughtful man who lived his philosophy and encouraged others to do so also.
PS

By: Bill Hare

Bill Hare — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:34:12 +0000

I first discovered Libertarianism in 1996. I stumbled upon the party platform on line. I was immediatly hooked and realized I had been a Libertarian my whole life but was wandering alone in the wilderness trying to figure out why the world was so different that I. Alas, I read Why Government Doesn’t Work and knew I would be voting for Harry Browne, and did in 1996 and 2000.
I had the good pleasure of speaking with Harry, on-air during a radio show on which he was a guest. The call lasted less than 5 minutes but will be remembered for a life time. So-long Harry, you will be missed.

By: Carl Cate

Carl Cate — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:42:12 +0000

Oh NO! Harry Browne’s How I Found Freedom along with Rose Wilder Lane’s book Man’s Discovery of Freedom changed my life. God, I’ll miss him. If I know anything about him, he’s now gone off on his own, to do his own thing in Heaven, without trying to convert any of the angels or God(s) to go along with him.

By: Justine Nicholas

Justine Nicholas — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:37:26 +0000

As a teenager, I read “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” and “How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation.” Like most teenagers, I was changing my philosophy of life as often as I was changing my undies. But Harry Browne planted a seed.

Much later, as an antiwar activist (who accepted the usual liberal shibboleths believed by many of those people), I came to realize that war is the inevitable result of the lust for power that fuels political mendacity. Then I re-discovered Browne and a friend told me about Lew Rockwell’s site. Here I am today! Thank you, Harry!

By: Robert Roper

Robert Roper — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:52:51 +0000

I also am saddened by the loss of Mr. Browne, the man who, in the Summer of 2000 (the first year I was so magnanimously granted the right to select those people who would control my adult life), introduced me to the world of libertarian politics. Had I not read his 1996 and 2000 campaign books that summer, I would likely have thought that George Bush was a good candidate for the presidency. At the time, I liked Bush because I didn’t know that his promises to roll back government spending and keep the nation out of destructive foreign endeavors were all lies.

Indeed, without Browne, I likely would not have been exposed the the libertarian wing of the antiwar movement, and would to this day still be a right-wing warmonger. Before Browne exposed me to the wonderful world of (true) libertarian thought, my young mind was under the false impression that the only group of consistent anti-war thinkers were the Greens and the anarcho-socialists.

Browne saved me, at an early age, from a lifetime of believing that I must be a slave to the domestic collective in order to avoid being a destructive slave of the military. For that I will be eternally grateful.

By: John Delano

John Delano — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:45:30 +0000

Robert Speirs = flame bate

By: 1776 - Evil Year

1776 - Evil Year — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:37:00 +0000

Let’s not forget the illegal wars with the Barbary Pirates. The vile neocons have been running the show since the beginning. Rothbard even said so.

By: Dennis Sperduto

Dennis Sperduto — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:15:32 +0000

While this posting is not the place to discuss this issue in detail, President Bush’s foreign policy is generally nothing but the latest version of the unconstitutional, immoral, and overwhelmingly bi-partisan foreign policy that has unfortunately animated this country for at least the last 100 years.

By: Laurence Vance

Laurence Vance — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:29:23 +0000

Mr. Speirs says: “Thank God we have George W. Bush”? Are you out of your mind? I can’t believe you even come to this website. Bush’s foreign policy is as far removed from perfect as one can get. Are you trying to get attention or something?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:41:22 +0000

”
Harry went through two ideological permutations that we can look back on with some degree of regret.”

I.e. He wasn’t a Rothbardian. Somehow this doesn’t seem like a crime.

RIP

By: Robert Speirs

Robert Speirs — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:06:59 +0000

Harry Browne was a great writer. His only flaw was his blind spot about the threats to individual freedom. His naive thinking about the Islamic menace would have abandoned fifty million people to Saddamism and the Taliban and put all our freedoms in mortal danger. Thank God we have George W. Bush. A combination of Bush for foreign policy and Browne for domestic policy would be perfect.

By: Walt Thiessen

Walt Thiessen — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:57:28 +0000

The libertarian movement took a hard loss this week when ALS took Harry Browne. But I have no doubt that Harry will continue to push for freedom for all in the great beyond. He was and is that kind of a man. I will miss him, as will so many others.

By: J. (Billy) VerPlanck

J. (Billy) VerPlanck — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:31:45 +0000

Harry Browne was a great man. Without even trying. His was an inspiration and an ideal for me and my wife.

I read, “How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation” in 1970 and it made my day and life over.

His insight on the world and how it worked was so right on for me. I could not wait till he had writen something new. He really lit of the tunel.

There certainly were second and third rate people who hated him, but they did that to anyone of value. To bad for them.

Harry Browne Thank You for your Life and your love of it. The information, your example on what a gentleman should be, your interest in , art, music, and sports not only the economic, and politics was wonderful. All of this in one bright and beautiful package.

Thank you dear freind, we miss you and hope your eternity will be ever beautiful and forfilling.

In reverance Marlene and Billy VerPlanck

By: Dennis Sperduto

Dennis Sperduto — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:12:52 +0000

I can personally attest to having “stumbled” onto Austrian Economics around 1980 or 1981 through How You Can Profit from the Coming Devaluation and the book’s references to the work of Mises and Rothbard. While I am not an academic or professional economist, Austrian Economics significantly changed for the better my understanding of the world. Austrian Economics has made me starkly cognizant of the fact and implications that, as Mises stated in Human Action, there is a “regularity of phenomena with regard to the interconnectedness of means and ends, viz., the praxeological law as distinct from the physical and from the physiological law.”

Thank you Harry Browne. May you rest in peace.

By: John Delano

John Delano — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:52:43 +0000

This is too bad. I have been wondering about him for the past several months, as I noticed a decline in the number of his writings. I first learned about what ‘libertarian’ means after hearing him on WLS-AM radio in the mid 1990s. I had heard of libertarians before and noticed the Libertarian party here in Indiana, but my view of libertarianism was not the reality of what it is. Prior to him, I had only heard of it being a strange middle of the road mix of mainstream conservatism and mainstream liberalism – the “liberal on social issues and conservative on fiscal issues” idea. I thought “How can one have liberal social programs with low taxes?” It seemed pretty stupid, but Harry Browne introduced me to libertarianism as it really is.

I met him in Indianapolis in 1998, and I voted Libertarian in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.