Way to miss the important point.
He blamed America for the 9/11 attack.
Even before the 9/11 atrocity, Harry Browne managed to alienate a boatload of people otherwise
sympathetic to the Libertarian Party when---contravening the party's formal stricture against
putting party resources behind any candidate until he or she had been formally designated
as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate---Browne amassed a small network of operatives
who siphoned party resources and funds toward backing his second bid for that candidacy (he'd
been the party's 1996 presidential nominee), and his forces even blocked from their convention
any reporter who'd been bold enough to dig in and expose the schemes. (Among other things
Browne had raised a couple of million for advertising but spent very little of that money on
advertising.)
In fact, it was shenanigans like that---I hadn't joined to see it become something
along the line of Chicago-style politics---that compelled me to drop my own membership in
the Libertarian Party even before Browne blamed America for 9/11. God rest his soul, as
an economist, Browne was always an interesting and even imperative read; as a politician,
he was a near-classic backroom manipulator. I'm guessing it took the Libertarian Party
quite a spell to recover from those shenanigans.
