Posted on 06/07/2007 7:02:05 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg
Neighbors of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown reported police SWAT teams and at least one armored vehicle converging on a field near their Plainfield home this morning. Authorities haven’t confirmed they are moving in to arrest the fugitives, but local police, the governor’s office and the U.S. Attorney’s office referred calls to the U.S. Marshal’s service, which has been negotiating daily with the Browns since their federal tax evasion conviction in January.
Susan Williams, who lives a mile or so away from the Browns on Center of Town Road, said she saw police officers, SWAT team members, a fire truck, ambulance, helicopter and at least one armored vehicle assembled in a field across from her driveway.
Another nearby resident, Russell Hoisington, said he saw a caravan of armored vehicles and many police cars drive past his house on Stage Road just before 9 a.m.
“There’s been a lot of cars heading up that way. Law enforcement types,” he said.
Hoisington’s two nephews live near the Browns. He said some time after 9 a.m., state police told his nephews to leave their home, but did not tell them why.
The Browns answered a telephone call from The Associated Press by saying: “This is the Lord’s House. This is Sister Elaine and Brother Edward.”
They said nothing was out of the ordinary at the house.
“It’s very quiet. I have no idea. I don’t see anything going on,” said Brown, before hanging up.
But he told a different story earlier today to a supporter, who recorded it and posted some of it online.
"Too many funny little things" had gone on in the past 12 hours said a bit after 9 a.m.
"One of our visitors went out for a walk at about 7:45 ... with my dog, and about an hour later, about 8:45, the dog come ripping down the driveway, and I've waited now for another half hour and - no visitor," Brown said.
He also said the power had gone out twice overnight and an airplane had flown silently over the house, where he said he was holed up with supporters.
"It could be a test to see our response time, our reaction," he said.
Numerous supporters have visited and stayed with the Browns during and after their trial. There was no way of knowing how many were there today.
An Associated Press photographer in a plane over the Browns’ property this morning was told to leave the airspace. On the ground, state police set up a checkpoint at Stage Road and Route 12A and would not let reporters pass.
The Browns insist federal income tax laws are invalid and have holed up in their hilltop home on 110 acres in Plainfield, which has a watchtower, concrete walls and the ability to run on wind and solar power. Brown said he has stockpiled food and supplies.
They were convicted in January of scheming to hide $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003. They also were convicted of using $215,890 in postal money orders to pay for their residence and for Elaine Brown’s dental office. The money orders were broken into increments just below the tax-reporting threshold.
U.S. District Judge Steven McAuliffe sentenced them each to 5¼ years in prison. They skipped the April sentencing hearings, and Ed Brown has said he and his wife will refuse to surrender to authorities.
The couple has described the court as a “fiction” unworthy of their attention and returned government mail unopened. The federal judge who sentenced them in absentia has sent along their notice of appeal to an appellate court in Boston.
You tell most people that taxes are collected in at the point of a gun, and they look at you like you have two heads. But just try not paying them, and sooner or later, men with guns are going to show up.
Folks at FR have no problem with this concept. But you wouldn’t believe how many people will say that it isn’t true.
amnesty for New Hampshire!
Can any organization other than the FAA issue a TFR?
I suspect they've finally figured out what their answer is going to be to that shooting, so they have the decks clear to handle this one!
Looks like I have to find a new dentist...sad really, Elaine Brown had a very good reputation as a dentist and could have done well for many years if she kept clean on the books.
The government owns this entire land mass. We are merely tenants. Don't pay your rent, and you will be violently removed from your property... if you don't surrender first.
Ed and Elaine Brown are friendly, Christian people with numerous friends in Plainfield, New Hampshire. She was a dentist with a successful practice serving the community. They simply got sick of being stolen from and having their money spent on all kinds of evil things our government does. So they quit giving the mob boss his money. And now, the government is at the foot of their property threatening to kill them for it.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Surely this is what Jesus would do, right?
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." -- Leo Tolstoy
Wow, sounds like a possible WACO.
Too many "conservatives" only care about it when there's a (D) in the White House.
The only thing sad here is a few men attacking and threatening good people for their time and money. Completely unnecessary.
Why don’t you take up a collection to pay their tax.
Too many "conservatives" only care about it when there's a (D) in the White House.
They aren't conservatives. They are just Fox News Republicans. They've never read Russell Kirk, they've never read Edmund Burke, nor any of the other conservative philosophers.
They are just people rooting for what they somehow still believe is "a lesser evil". Just like their Democrat counterparts, from whom they are almost indistinguishable. It's just a pointless wrestling match that does nothing but get lots of people taxed and killed. But it entertains them, so they carry on, no matter what the results...
Sad.
Because it's not for me to pay. They could easily pay if they wanted to. They don't want to.
Would you have taken up a collection to pay the American revolutionaries' taxes? There were all kinds of people living around them at the time that told them to just shut up and pay the government its taxes, fwiw.
Perhaps one has been established, did you check local NOTAMs or with the FAA?
I hate taxes as much as the next guy but both Jesus (render unto Ceasar) and Paul both said to pay your taxes as a Christian.
Romans 13:
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the [powers] that be are ordained of God.
2 Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same: 4 for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore [ye] must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience` sake.
6 For this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God`s service, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
What's not to understand?
They've just put the impression of "compound" into the sheeps' heads. I'm sure they probably have an "arsenal" of "assault weapons" too. Things that are described this way generally don't end well.
Just for grins and giggles, can you please quote the law passed by Congress, and reference it, which states we must pay taxes on our income?
Just quote the passage from the law, please.
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