Posted on 06/08/2007 6:14:39 AM PDT by BGHater
"What are they trying to do, start a war?" Ed Brown said of the police presence near his Plainfield home yesterday. "What do they think we have in here, tanks?"
Brown, who maintains there is no law that requires average American citizens to pay a direct tax on their wages, spoke to a group of reporters from a second-floor window in his house after a veritable army of heavily armed police officers and federal agents left the area around his rural home without ever making contact with him.
The government detained and questioned a man who discovered surveillance teams positioned around the house yesterday morning.
As Brown spoke, half a dozen helicopters made wide circles overhead.
"How does a foreign national army act in a country they are occupying?" Brown said. "These people are no different than our troops in Iraq. I feel bad for our troops over there."
Brown, who asserts that the federal government has no jurisdiction in New Hampshire and no authority to charge him under a non-existent law, said the activity surrounding his properties in Plainfield and West Lebanon yesterday was a "Zionist, Illuminati, Free Mason movement."
"I hope I don't see anybody up there with guns in the woods, because what am I supposed to do?" he said, citing a New Hampshire law that allows citizens to defend their property with deadly force.
Brown, who called his residence "a house of peace," said a friend took his dog for a walk at 8 a.m. yesterday and never came back.
"The dog came running back in a panic about 45 minutes later," he said.
His friend was taken into custody by federal agents after the man discovered surveillance activity on the property, according to U.S. Marshal Steve Monier.
Brown said the agents "kidnapped" his friend and "stole" his West Lebanon property.
Brown said he had an inkling Wednesday night that federal agents were planning something when he saw a low-flying police aircraft pass eastward over his house around 9:30 p.m. By yesterday afternoon, he said, his house telephone line and Internet service had been shut off and his cell phone rendered useless. All this because, as Brown sees it, he's standing up for his rights.
"I'm you," he said. "I'm just saying I'm not going to take it anymore ... I'm fighting for your freedoms."
Brown said it's only a matter of time before everyone who stands up to the U.S. government ends up in his shoes.
"Your time is coming up pretty soon," he said. "If you don't go along with the Free Masons, they'll attack you too." Brown, who says he now adheres only to the laws of the creator, sharply criticized state and local police officers, calling them "candy a----" who don't think for themselves.
"They really are babies," he said. "They're mindless little ... They're nothing like the police we had 15 years ago."
Brown declined to say how many supporters were staying with him and his wife, Dr. Elaine Brown, but he did say a "huge raft" of 20-somethings have passed through his doors over the past few months. "The sleeping giant is waking up," he said.
Brown said he doesn't care about warrants or court orders, because he doesn't believe he's a criminal. If he committed a crime, he said, he would turn himself in.
"This is just paper," he said. "This is fiction. The entire American government is fiction. We created it, didn't we?" Brown said he does not plan to surrender to authorities.
"We're a very reciprocal people. You do us good, we're going to do you good. You do us bad, we're going to do you bad," he said. "... This whole thing is a joke, but they'll kill me because of this joke."
LOL! It's those tricky Joos coming down from Bethlehem...
Brown, who maintains there is no law that requires average American citizens to pay a direct tax on their wages
He is right about this statement.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173
The Roman government was hostile to Christians/Christianity, they were very pagan, and yet both Jesus and Paul said to PAY YOUR TAXES!
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?
Very simply, I think if he believed he had to pay taxes[To Feds] he would render it to Caesar.
I’m guessing that he’s being investigated for not paying his taxes...
They hid $1.9 million in income from the IRS so they could avoid paying $500,000 in taxes. They have been convicted and sentenced to 5+ years in prison. They have holed themselves up saying, they won’t surrender so they can serve their sentence.
He just doesn’t want to pay taxes on the treasure. It’s 4 stories under his house.
If you don't like a tax, get it repealed. Don't sit there, cheat on your taxes and ignore lawfully constituted courts.
The video is an hour and fifty one minutes long; I don’t have time to listen. But the first four minutes spell out some accusations; are they documented further on, or is it another version of unproven Libspew?
There ain’t enough tinfoil for this guy’s dome.
Whats amazing is that if he is imprisoned and convicted he can still be Vote in the Primaries and the General Election under the Constitution.
It's the Mason's ma, fetch the shootin arn
Basically, it says that the Tax Amendment to the Constitution was never ratified. It appeared magically as if Harry Potter put it there.
It relies on the reader/watcher suspending any sense of reality and trusting the source completely. Their mantra is “Research it yourself but only look at our data”. Looking at Supreme Court rulings is futile because they are in on the conspiracy.
If there's one thing I've learned... it's that Gov't rarely if ever repeals taxes.
...............I understand that if he develops a rash (Paris Hilton), the Sheriff has the authority to release him due to medical reasons....
Wrong, watch the film.
If he had any questions about the law, he should have asked his lawyer. If his lawyer couldn’t answer them, he should have gotten a new lawyer.
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Give it up, schmuck(referring to Brown).
Ugh, not this again. I wish what you said was true. And, I will even give you the possibility that what you say is technically true. But, that doesn’t matter. This have been litigated over and over again. That is, even if what you say is true, the government and the courts don’t see it that way. Therefore, if you don’t pay your taxes, eventually men with guns will come to your door.
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