I am surprised that I did not even hear a blurb on this on the shortwave radio? Tomorrow I will be listening to see what Alex Jones and The Power Hour have to say?
I have heard of recent court cases where the juries have ruled in favor of the defendant when no law could be produced showing that we have to pay income taxes. We need to compile all those cases that have been won into a resource directory.
The tax battle will not go away however.
I hope that nothing happens to Ed and Elaine. I am surprised that no one was hurt, or at least that is the report.
The militia of Georgia will come to order as soon as the BATF and FBI fellows get here." ~ "You know those two fellows in the group who are always suggesting we keep weapons for them on our property or that we blow things up." ~ "Oh yea."
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If somebody is advocating something illegal on this site, they will be dealt with accordingly. Careful about joking around about the feds. My dealings with them have not been pleasant at all.
It's too bad about the Browns. They rejected offers of help and in the kangaroo court system, it will not turn out good for them. It's just another reason that we should be networking to get some things accomplished.
U
.S. Marshals arrested tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown at their Plainfield home yesterday, ending the couple's eight-month standoff without bloodshed.
The Browns vowed never to be taken alive, but U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said yesterday that both Browns were arrested without incident on their property around 7:45 p.m.
"The Browns may now begin serving their 63-month federal prison terms," Monier said in a written statement last night. A representative for the marshals refused to answer any questions about the arrests last night.
"High-profile situations like this are always difficult, but they don't have to be tragic. I'm glad no one was injured, and that the community remained safe throughout the operation," Monier said.
Marshals will hold a press briefing this morning to provide details about the arrests. According to the statement, the Browns have already been turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to begin serving their sentences.
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The Browns were convicted of a series of tax-related crimes in January and had both been sentenced in absentia to 63 months in prison. But they have avoided capture, remaining holed up in their solar powered concrete home for months, where they have made repeated public threats of violence and have entertained a large and rotating cast of supporters.
A jury found that the couple had conspired to hide the nearly $2 million that Elaine Brown earned as a dentist over nearly a decade, but the couple maintained that no law compelled them to pay federal income taxes. They described their lengthy standoff as a stand against an unjust court system that was keeping the truth about the tax system from most Americans.
The couple defended themselves at trial, promising to show jurors not only their innocence, but the truth of their legal views. When the judge showed them a copy of jury instructions in their case that they said ensured they could not get a fair trial, they stopped attending the proceedings.
Elaine Brown ultimately returned to court, but Ed Brown sent an e-mail to his friends warning that the situation was likely to turn into "another Waco."
Last night, word of the Browns' arrests began to spread on blogs and message boards where supporters communicate. In a message posted to Ed and Elaine's MySpace page, Jim Hobbs of Phoenix, who lived with the couple for several weeks this summer, wrote: "This site shows 5116 friends. How many of you are just going to sit back and do nothing and how many of you will take action. ed had a list of 50 most wanted. Will you act on that list and send the messsage, Loud and clear."
Marshals did not release any details about the Browns' capture or any additional charges they may face, but in a recent press briefing, Monier suggested that marshals were investigating the couple for new crimes related to their standoff.
"This was a tax case," he said in September, "but over the last seven months, the Browns have allegedly obstructed justice and encouraged others to assist them. Ed Brown has threatened to kill law enforcement officers and other government officials."
The Browns were active in the militia movement in the 1990s, training in a group called the Constitution Defense Militia. Ed Brown became a prominent spokesman for the movement after the Oklahoma City bombing, when he told national news organizations that the attack had been planned by federal agents to discredit the movement.
In recent years, he has served as the national head of the Constitution Rangers of the Continental Congress of 1776, an organization charged with holding law enforcement figures accountable to the constitution.
News of Ed Brown's stand quickly spread through the militia community and flowed to other groups as well. His case captured the imagination of many who believed the income tax system was illegitimate or felt the federal government had gone too far in interfering with individual liberties. The case also attracted the support of members of the local Free State Project, a group of New Hampshire libertarians hoping to transform the state's politics.
As Elaine Brown returned to court to complete her defense, supporters brought food, weapons and flags to the Brown home, which the couple had improved over several years. Their large home is fitted with solar panels, a woodstove and well, and was designed to function "off the grid." Ed Brown described the walls as built of 10-inch thick concrete for structural support, and a five-story watchtower afforded a 360 degree view of the hilltop property. At their bail hearing last May, the prosecutor described the improved home as "essentially a fortress."
Elaine Brown was freed on bail following her conviction, but fled to join her husband in late February. The couple have remained together ever since, and have both expressed their desire to die in support of their cause. Elaine Brown said that she could imagine only two ways they would leave the property, "either as a free man and as a free woman or in body bags."
Marshals have done little to block access to the couple's home, and the Browns have been visited by a number of local and out-of-state supporters. According to accounts from the Browns and the supporters themselves, they brought the couple food, cell phones and weapons, and helped them establish a presence on the internet that allowed them to communicate with like minded people elsewhere in the country. Since February, the couple has appeared nearly every weekday on an online radio show, where they have discussed their political beliefs and made several threats against federal officials As recently as yesterday, the couple used the show to discuss the possible utility of organizing assassination squads to target key government figures.
"That's what's going to have to happen worldwide," Ed Brown said.
The Browns have recently made mention of a list of targets being prepared in case they are harmed by authorities.
Marshals arrested four of the couple's most prominent helpers last month, charging them with federal felonies for helping the couple. All four are being held without bail until their trials, scheduled for November. Among other things, three of the supporters were charged with bringing the couple .50 caliber rifles, which shoot bullets capable of piercing body armor and are able to hit targets at long distances with great accuracy.
A fifth supporter was arrested this week by local authorities and is being held on bond for a number of driving-related offenses.
Visits to the property have quieted since the arrests, Elaine Brown said on the radio show yesterday.
"Locals don't come so much anymore," she said. "I guess the feds scared them off."
Monier did not say if quiet conditions at the property led to the timing of arrests, but his statement did say that he believed their arrests last night "promised the safest possible outcome."
The statement did not say whether the Browns were entertaining guests at the time of their arrest.
In June, marshals surrounded the Browns' home with state police SWAT teams, bringing helicopters, paramedics and an explosives disposal unit, but Monier denied that they were there to arrest the couple. Instead, he said marshals were performing surveillance on the couple while authorities seized the couple's commercial building 10 miles away. Marshals briefly detained and interrogated a Brown supporter who stumbled on a surveillance team that morning while walking the couple's dog.
But other than that incident, Monier has taken a low-key approach to the Brown case. He has frequently warned supporters that they are subject to prosecution for helping the couple, but marshals have rarely been visible near the house, and their communications with the couple were focused on persuading them to surrender, he said.
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By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Monitor staff
This article is: 0 days old. _________________ "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
The militia will come to order as soon as the BATF and FBI fellows get here." ~ "You know those two fellows in the group who are always suggesting we keep weapons for them on our property or that we blow things up." ~ "Oh yea."
This is from an old joke in the militias, it is not referring to anyone doing anything illegal but referring to the BATF and FBI setting up people by acting as militia men and as embed operatives and suggesting they do things they should not do. It is meant merely as a bit of wisdom. So please think about that.
I am surprised no one read this right and got the wrong idea. I am also surprised no one has heard this joke here also.
for those that dont know the atf and fbi are the ones always suggestig illegle things
the other half of it you can always tell who the plant is he's the one telling you to do things that will get you arrested ie:randy weaver
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - U.S. marshals posing as supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their rural, fortress-like home, the head marshal said Friday.
"They invited us in, and we escorted them out," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, releasing the first details of Thursday night's arrests.
A small team of marshals pulled off the ruse, arresting the Browns without incident on the front porch of their Plainfield home in west- central New Hampshire, Monier said.
The arrests ended a months-long standoff that began in January, when Brown, 65, a retired exterminator, and his dentist wife, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord. She returned to the trial but soon joined her husband at home, where they vowed to resist violently if authorities tried to arrest them.
"We either walk out of here free or we die," Ed Brown said.
At a news conference, Monier said officials found booby traps in the woods on the 100-plus-acre property and weapons, ammunition and homemade bombs inside and outside the house. He said more charges are likely.
"By their continuing actions, allegedly, to obstruct justice, to encourage others to assist them to obstruct justice, by making threats toward law enforcement and other governmental officials, they have turned this into more than a tax case," Monier said.
The Browns were turned over to federal corrections officials to serve prison terms of 63 months. They were convicted in January of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003 and were sentenced in April.
The couple claims the federal income tax is not legitimate. Their argument—repeatedly rejected by courts—is that no law authorizes the federal income tax and that the 1913 constitutional amendment permitting it was never properly ratified.
Experts had praised authorities' hands-off approach before the surprise arrests, but patience had worn thin among some of Plainfield's 2,400 residents. During the summer, town selectmen asked Monier to stop the influx of militiamen and other anti-government groups to the Browns' home and to bring the couple to justice.
Last month, authorities arrested four men accused of helping obstruct justice in the Browns' case. Charges ranged from accessory after the fact to possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Authorities also blocked access to a fundraising event on the Browns' property.
Earlier this year, officials cut power and telephone service in an effort to increase pressure on the couple.
The home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property and a driveway that had sometimes been barricaded with sport utility vehicles.
Heavily armed police surrounded the home in June while they seized commercial property the couple owned in a neighboring town. SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles marshaled in the tiny town and sparked rumors of a raid.
Monier said then the gathered forces were only for surveillance. On Friday, he would not discuss details of the operation, including the exact number of deputy marshals involved, what they said to the Browns or how the couple reacted.
"Last evening, the Browns invited yet another what they thought were like-minded individuals to their home. Unfortunately for them, the supporters actually turned out to be deputy U.S. marshals," he said. "By the time Ed and Elaine Brown realized this, they were in custody. Ultimately, this open-door policy they seemed to have, which allowed the Browns to have some supporters bring them supplies, welcome followers, even host a picnic—this proved to be their undoing."
The arrests "will be a relief to everyone in the community," said state Agriculture Commissioner Stephen Taylor, a Plainfield resident. "This has been such a distraction to everybody."
A message left for Elaine Brown's son, David Hatch-Bernier of Worcester, Mass., was not returned.
Supporters of the Browns called them leaders who were trying to protect their freedom.
"In many ways this was like a stab in the heart," said Mike Chambers, a talk show host on Republic Broadcasting Network, an Internet-based radio program based in Round Rock, Texas, that has defended the Browns in the past.
On another Web site, supporter David Ridley of Manchester said Brown supporters should take part in "peaceable protests" at places such as federal court. _________________ "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
The militia will come to order as soon as the BATF and FBI fellows get here." ~ "You know those two fellows in the group who are always suggesting we keep weapons for them on our property or that we blow things up." ~ "Oh yea."
This is from an old joke in the militias, it is not referring to anyone doing anything illegal but referring to the BATF and FBI setting up people by acting as militia men and as embed operatives and suggesting they do things they should not do. It is meant merely as a bit of wisdom. So please think about that.
I am surprised no one read this right and got the wrong idea. I am also surprised no one has heard this joke here also.
I want to thank you for taking care of the 'old joke' in your original post up there. Now that you have clarified your meaning, and restated the 'old joke' I also appreciate the wisdom you offer. However, in thinking about that, as you ask, I have...and refer you to:
Sometimes there is confusion--even in a name. Sometimes an 'old joke' isn't too funny. Sometimes some of us do 'read it right' and don't get the wrong idea.
Nuff said.
The thread is about Ed and Elaine Brown getting arrested.
Onward!
CDJ _________________ A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what they are made for.
CDJ, staying on the topic of Ed and Elaine Brown getting arrested, Makethestand.com is reporting on their website that the Browns were 'kidnapped' by the Feds. They claim that Fox news has reported that details of the 'arrest' will be provided in a news conference at the federal courthouse in NH on Oct 10, 2007. _________________ "You must become an advocate of what you believe otherwise, you will become a victim of what others want you to believe" - author unkown
Thanks Shyloh. I checked it out and for sure that is what the site says:
Ed and Elaine Kidnapped by The Fed’s.
Casey Lee Cobb | Show The Law | October 5, 2007
According to the mainstream media Ed and Elaine Have Been "arrested" without incident.
"The Union Leader however reports that: U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said that the two did not surrender. At this point and time the Feds are not releasing any details on the reported "arrests".
According to Fox News: Details on the reported "arrest" will be provided in a news conference at the federal courthouse in Concord NH on October 10th 2007.
It is currently not clear how the couple who did not surrender were kidnapped without incident."
And if you go over there, via the link, look for additional links in the words 'did not surrender' and 'According to Fox News'. Those are in 'yellow' in the article above, taken from that site. (those words here are not hot links)
Those may explain what is meant by 'kidnapped'. As well, these:
BTW--just down from the article pasted here, from the site, there is an interesting article on another case involving, "... a Las Vegas federal jury returned its verdict refusing to convict nine defendants of any of the 161 federal tax crimes they had been charged with."
We shall see.
Many thanks again.
CDJ _________________ A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what they are made for.
IRS Suffers Staggering Defeat -
MSM Buries Story
161 Federal Tax Charges, 0 Convictions
Total National Media Blackout
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IRS Suffers Staggering Defeat
Tax Questions Raised Regarding Gold and Silver Coins Used to Pay Wages
Around noon on Monday, September 17th, a Las Vegas federal jury returned its verdict refusing to convict nine defendants of any of the 161 federal tax crimes they had been charged with. The charges included income tax evasion, willful failure to file and conspiracy to evade taxes.
The four-month trial centered around the family businesses of Robert Kahre who paid numerous workers for their labor with circulating gold and silver U.S. coins, and did not report the wages. The payments took place over several years, allegedly totaling at least $114 million dollars.
On September 20, 2007, three days after the federal trial's dramatic conclusion, the Las Vegas Review Journal, reportedly under a degree of public pressure, ran its first (and last) story about the outcome of the trial. To this day, with exception of the single article by the Review Journal, no major media entity has published a news story regarding the outcome of this important federal criminal tax case.
The censorship of this important news story is, unfortunately, not unexpected given the continuing, worldwide onslaught against the U.S. "dollar" -- specifically the Federal Reserve variety, and the ever growing numbers of Federal Reserve Notes required to trade for an actual ounce of silver, gold, oil, or for that matter, anything.
In short, this failed prosecution has coalesced and exposed truths our Government desperately needs to hide from the People: the truth about our money, the truth about our (privately-owned) central bank, and the truth about the fraudulent nature of the operation and enforcement of the federal income tax system.
According to defense attorney Joel Hansen, who represented co-defendant Alex Loglia, the primary "willfulness" defense was that the defendants believed they had no legal obligation to withhold, pay income taxes or report anything to the government because, in part, the nominal (i.e., face value) of the gold and silver coins is so small as to fall beneath the reporting thresholds set by the Internal Revenue Code.
The Defendants also argued that regardless of the valuation of the coins for internal revenue purposes, there is no law that requires average American workers to file or pay direct, un-apportioned taxes on the fruits of their labor.
The Government argued that the payments in solid gold and silver U.S. coins must be considered at their bullion (i.e., intrinsic full-market) value when considering the worth of the wages for purposes of the internal revenue code.
Attorney Hansen cited two Supreme Court cases bolstering Defendant's monetary argument at the heart of the defendants "willfulness" defense.
The essence of the argument is that under the Constitution Congress is obligated by law to mint and circulate such coins as demand requires, and must establish the value of coins as they are used as legal tender, but the coins' market value, arising as valuable personal "property," is a distinct, separate attribute of such coins, and is of no legal consequence if the coins are used as legal tender.
In other words, if a worker is paid with such coins, his taxable "income" (if any) can only be the face value indicated upon the coin money paid -- i.e., $1.00 for a circulating silver dollar or $50 for a circulating gold U.S. coin. Not surprisingly, the IRS has never issued any public guidance regarding this significant issue. The first case, Ling Su Fan v. U.S., 218 US 302 (1910) establishes the legal distinction of a coin bearing the "impress" of the sovereign:
"These limitations are due to the fact that public law gives to such coinage a value which does not attach as a mere consequence of intrinsic value. Their quality as a legal tender is an attribute of law aside from their bullion value. They bear, therefore, the impress of sovereign power which fixes value and authorizes their use in exchange."
The second case, Thompson v. Butler, 95 US 694 (1877), establishes that the law makes no legal distinction between the values of coin and paper money used as legal tender:
"A coin dollar is worth no more for the purposes of tender in payment of an ordinary debt than a note dollar. The law has not made the note a standard of value any more than coin. It is true that in the market, as an article of merchandise, one is of greater value than the other; but as money, that is to say, as a medium of exchange, the law knows no difference between them."
Defense attorney Hansen confirmed that members of the jury were able to actually hold and inspect the gold and silver U.S. coins paid to the workers.
After almost four months of testimony and three and a half days of deliberation, the jury did not convict any of the defendants of any of the 161 crimes alleged. Although some defendants were acquitted of multiple counts, and several were acquitted completely, others may have to stand for a retrial if the Government brings charges a second time.
The Review Journal reported the jury foreman claimed DOJ prosecutors admitted they were "shocked" by the outcome.
In March 2007, the primary defendant, Bob Kahre, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the prosecutor and IRS agents who had conducted what he alleges to be an unlawful search and seizure raid. In 2005, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to overturn a previous District Court ruling holding that the federal prosecutor is not entitled to absolute immunity for the unlawful raid. Read more.
Execute a Google News search to attempt to locate recent news stories about the Kahre tax trial.
The media suppression of this story is similar to the widespread mainstream media suppression of the July 11, 2007 acquittal of Louisiana attorney Tommy Cryer who was also charged with multiple federal income tax crimes and relied upon numerous Supreme Court precedents and U.S. tax laws to establish his "willfulness" defense. Click here for a previous WTP update containing a link to Cryer's 100-page Motion to Dismiss which details his legal arguments.
Execute a Google News archive search to attempt to locate news stories about Tommy Cryer's tax trial.
Disclaimer
I gotta give credit to the employer, employees and attorneys who defended them. How they handled this was legal as determined by our 'Government' that wrote the rules! Too bad this story isn't more widespread.[b][/b]
"The media suppression of this story is similar to the widespread mainstream media suppression of the July 11, 2007 acquittal of Louisiana attorney Tommy Cryer who was also charged with multiple federal income tax crimes and relied upon numerous Supreme Court precedents and U.S. tax laws to establish his "willfulness" defense. Click here for a previous WTP update containing a link to Cryer's 100-page Motion to Dismiss which details his legal arguments.
Execute a Google News archive search to attempt to locate news stories about Tommy Cryer's tax trial."
1.) That's what I'm talkin bout! People get educated in many ways. Trials are moved to get the defendant a fair trial when there is a lot of media coverage of the case prior to trial. Jurors are sequestered to benefit the defendant in getting a clean and righteous verdict from that jury.
2.) And this: It is well known that many countries that are looked down upon for their totalitarian dictators and oligarcies control of the media. How often does one hear a story from one of these countries that says, "According to state controlled media..."? PLENTY!!
Couple these two paragraphs of thought together now. Anybody reading think that we are pretty much either headed in that direction or are already there on the 'controlled media'?
People tend to not listen too well anyway. That is well known. And that would include members of a jury pool, and ultimately the jury. But the government is not content with a strait game. They want the deck stacked to further an agenda. To Hell with fairness. And why? It is largely because there is no consequence. However:
"In March 2007, the primary defendant, Bob Kahre, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the prosecutor and IRS agents who had conducted what he alleges to be an unlawful search and seizure raid. In 2005, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to overturn a previous District Court ruling holding that the federal prosecutor is not entitled to absolute immunity for the unlawful raid." (Also from the article)
If, for all their screw ups, the 9th Circuit got it right on this one. That ruling right there, if not overturned by the Supremes will place a reasonable burden on prosecutors who violate peoples rights for the glory of forwarding an agenda of their masters or other unlawful acts using and abusing their prosecutorial power!
Then you have all the other issues brought up in this case about the minting of our money. How bout the control of it? The FED comes to mind.
Maybe Ed and Elaine Brown have stated a REVOLUTION!
Cordially
CDJ _________________ A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what they are made for.
Alleged Tax-Evaders Arrested Without Incident in N.H.
By Paul Lewis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 5, 2007; 12:12 PM
PLAINFIELD, N.H. — The fugitive couple had been waiting on their porch for nearly eight months for law enforcement officials to make their move. “The word is ‘poised,’ “ Ed Brown said recently, handgun wedged in his jeans, AK-47 assault rifle behind the door, as he stared at a yard of cut grass and bags of explosives hanging from trees. His wife, Elaine, kept her pistol inside a pouch with her reading glasses.
A retired exterminator and a dentist in their 60s, the Browns don’t believe the federal government has authority to tax income. In January, after a decade of not paying tax on nearly $1.9 million in earnings, they were convicted of tax-related criminal charges, and four months later, they were sentenced in absentia to 63 months in prison.
Refusing to surrender, they barricaded themselves in their estate in this New Hampshire town of 2,200 in February, warning that any attempt to arrest them would end in bloodshed. They claimed they could sustain themselves indefinitely from solar and wind electricity generators, after federal agents cut their power and phone lines.
But late Thursday night, U.S. marshals posing as supporters entered the Browns’ property and arrested them on their porch without incident. “They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier told the Associated Press.
At a news conference, Monier said officials found booby traps in the woods on the 100-plus-acre property and weapons, ammunition and homemade bombs inside and outside the house. He said more charges are likely.
It was hardly surprising for the Browns to have considered the agents to be supporters. Through daily radio broadcasts and Internet postings, the couple had become a cause celebre for tax protesters, a disparate movement that claims federal taxes are fraudulent. “Show me the law and I’ll pay the tax,” Ed Brown, who was involved in a “patriot” militia in the 1990s, said in an interview several days before his arrest. “Don’t show me the law and I’m not going to give you a dime. What part of that don’t you understand?” Wearily, he wife added: “The only way to leave here is free, or dead.”
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The Browns repeatedly compared their situation to the confrontations at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, and Waco, Tex., a year later. Those events, which ended in bloodshed, prompted the Justice Department to adapt its approach to prolonged sieges of this type, emphasizing patience. Recently, the couple held a news conference with Randy Weaver, whose wife and son were fatally shot in the Ruby Ridge siege.
Before Thursday’s arrest, Monier had “ratcheted up” pressure on the couple. Two weeks ago, simultaneous raids took place on the homes of Brown supporters across the country. Federal authorities charged four men with various counts of aiding and abetting the Browns.
They include Cirino Gonzalez, a 30-year-old from Alice, Tex., who fell out with Ed Brown some months ago; the couple’s blogger, Daniel Riley, 40, from Cohoes, N.Y.; and a friend, Robert Wolffe, 50, who is from Randolph, Vt.
The fourth, Jason Gerhard, 22, a recent Army recruit from Brookhaven, N.Y., who was arrested at his basic training camp in Missouri, faces the most charges — found guilty of all felony counts, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 125 years.
The Browns dismissed the charges against their associates as lies. But unsealed court documents hinted at preparations for battle that Ed Brown has long boasted about. Along with groceries and fishing line, they state, some of the defendants snuck Tannerite, an explosive, onto the property, as well as fire extinguishers and firearms powerful enough to pierce body armor.
The arsenal described in the indictments seems to conflict with the middle-class life the Browns tried to lead. During the summer, the Browns had dinner parties and fundraisers in their yard, hosting an array of supporters, from nearby families and spiritual gurus to hardcore militia members.
But in June, the festival atmosphere was interrupted when the property was surrounded by SWAT teams, bomb disposal units and heavily armed police, while U.S. marshals seized Elaine Brown’s dental practice.
Recently, as they waited for authorities to make a move, Ed Brown attended to plants in the yard, while Elaine baked a pie and arranged surgical tools for the ad hoc dental practice she set up in her living room.
Cut off from the rest of the world, the Browns said they expected help to come. The couple’s ordeal would likely be over by the spring, said Ed Brown, when a “warrior class” will rise up against the “Zionist Freemasons” who, he said, have infiltrated the echelons of power and control the world.
During his conspiratorial soliloquies, Ed Brown would occasionally lose his temper and raise the specter of all-out war. He warned that if he if and his wife were killed, retribution would be enacted against journalists, judges and law enforcement officials on a secret list. Monier said that that by making such threats the couple “turned this into more than just a tax case.”
Increasingly alone and with their supply chain drying up, in quieter moments the Browns were candid about their frustrating predicament. “See. They should have let us slip into oblivion,” Ed Brown said recently. “I guess they didn’t believe our resolve.”
Turning to his wife, the resolve seemed to dissipate. “What can I do?” he asked. “I’m trapped. I got my back against the wall.”
I thought you all might like to see this. I haven't heard anything on any news reports about the other 4 defendents. Have you all heard anything else? _________________ "You must become an advocate of what you believe otherwise, you will become a victim of what others want you to believe" - author unkown
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