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Liberty Magazine says that a lot of money donated to Browne's '96 and 2000 campaigns went for the enrichment of Mr. Browne.

Very true. The magazine has been following that one for months. So was Jacob Hornberger, a writer with the Future of Freedom Foundation who is also a longtime LP official and activist. But the money issue, while certainly impossible to ignore (I was unaware of it myself until well enough after the 2000 elections), is matched even-up by an even more disturbing point: that Harry Browne violated the Libertarian Party's explicit enough rules against engaging members of the party's national office or various party-employed workers to work on behalf of a specific candidate before the candidate has the final LP endorsement for office. It was because of these issues, Mr. Browne's rather disingenuous attempts to duck giving straight answers to questions about them, and the party's national office apparently not giving a rat's derriere about either it or the fact that Mr. Browne's shenanigans have actually driven LP vote totals down - while Mr. Browne, interestingly, engages practically unchallenged in Clintonesque spin about falling numbers equaling unseen or unseeable victories - that I began cooling on the Libertarian Party. This nation may well need a libertarian party yet, but the incumbent Libertarian Party, I fear, is not quite it.

Liberty Magazine says that a lot of money donated to Browne's '96 and 2000 campaigns went for the enrichment of Mr. Browne.

I used to get Liberty Magazine. I moved about 5 months ago, and it didn't seem to follow me. Hmmm...

Anyway, I think you should supply both the issue where this allegation was made, and the amount of money by which Harry Browne was allegedly "personally enriched." Enquiring minds want to know!

But as long as we're talking about money. Harry Browne (and Howard Phillips, I think) were the ONLY presidential candidates in 2000 that refused to accept federal taxpayer money to fund their campaigns. To ME, that counts as much--or MORE--than what Harry Browne did with the money my fellow Libertarians and I gave him.

In my mind, what Pat Buchanan did...took federal taxpayer megabucks that were "earned" by Ross Perot...and used that money to destroy the Reform Party (not that it had much going for it anyway) is far more scandalous than a man being ALLEGEDLY "personally enriched" from the pockets of his own supporters.