New Hampshire Tax Protesters Say the Bible Will Decide Their Fate

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Browns Will Not Appeal Their Convictions on Tax Evasion Charges The Connecticut Valley Spectator (New Hampshire) reports that Ed and Elaine Brown, tax protesters from Plainfield, N.H., have said that they do not plan to appeal their convictions on federal tax evasion charges.

The Browns, who had filed a notice of appeal, say, according to the Spectator, that they now have rejected "man's law" and will follow only what the Bible says. Ed Brown, quoted in the Spectator, said, "Only God knows the timeframe, and no matter how it ends, it will be good. It doesn't matter. If they do something to us, they'll make martyrs out of us."

The Browns, who haven't filed a federal tax return since 1995, are asking the government to show them a law that requires U.S. citizens to pay income taxes. "They have never done so, and the reason they have never done so is because no such law exists," said Elaine Brown.

The Browns appealed their case to the U. S. Supreme Court, but the Supreme court refused to hear them. During the trial which found the Browns guilty of tax evasion, the presiding judge, Steven McAuliffe, did not allow the Browns to argue whether or not the charges against them had a legal basis.

The couple, who have some property in West Lebanon, NH, were tricked into federal custody by federal agents and Lebanon police, who claimed that there was some problem at the property. The Browns have contended that the city should collect only the amount of money in taxes needed to run the city. According to the Spectator, Ed claims that he is not getting a good return on his taxes-only fire protection and having his road plowed.

Other than the poor return on their taxes, the Browns also object to paying money so that "public schools can teach 'communism and homosexuality,' according to the Spectator.

The Browns know that all they have to do to get rid of their tax problems and to avoid any possible harm from the government is to pay their taxes, but it's not that simple, say the Browns. "Nobody would be that stupid to get into this kind of pressure and anxiety every day," unless they really believed in what they were doing, said Mr. Brown. They've been sentenced to five years in prison. "Principle is very expensive," Elaine said, "In many ways, we're finding that out."

Source:

www.cvspectator.com/

US Marshalls Serve Warrant to Seize Brown's Dental Office

Created: Thursday, 07 Jun 2007, 12:13 PM EDT

PLAINFIELD, N.H. -- Federal authorities indicated today they are not raiding the Plainfield property of tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown.

The U.S. Marshal's Service says a supporter of the fugitives was detained near the Browns' home this morning and that they served a federal warrant to seize Elaine Brown's dental office in Lebanon.

"We are here, in conjunction with authorities, from the Department of the Treasury, to serve that warrant," the statement said.

"As we have said from the beginning, we will continue to communicate with Ed and Elaine Brown to convince them to surrender peacefully."

Neighbors had earlier reported that police SWAT teams and at least one armored vehicle converging on a field near the home Thursday morning.

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 Ed Brown, before hanging up.

An Associated Press photographer in a plane over the Browns' property Thursday 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. The home has a watchtower, concrete walls and the ability to run on wind and solar power and Ed Brown said earlier he had stockpiled food and supplies.

The Browns 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 51/4 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 judge who sentenced them in absentia sent their notice of appeal to the federal appellate court in Boston.

Exclusive: Federal Assault On Brown Home Was Aborted
Man fired upon and captured tells story of being ordered to lie to media by FBI and cover up botched raid

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet
Friday, June 8, 2007

Danny Riley, the man who was shot at and arrested after he discovered U.S. Marshals stalking Ed Brown's home, has revealed the amazing truth
behind how he was threatened with 15 years in jail by the FBI unless he lied to the media to cover-up the fact that yesterday's events were
a planned siege and not merely to serve a warrant as authorities had claimed.

Riley related in a video blog late yesterday how he had unwittingly stumbled across U.S. Marshals preparing to raid the Brown property as
he left the house to take Ed Brown's dog for a walk. Riley was confronted by two men in camouflage who fired two shots at him as he
attempted to run away, but was then tackled by 12 other armed Marshals who tasered and handcuffed him.

What happened after was carried in our article this morning, but the whole story exposes how the FBI had planned to orchestrate a violent
raid on the Brown's property, before aborting the siege and attempting to use Riley, under intimidation that he would be jailed or even
killed, as a go-between to sell the cover-story to the media that the authorities were merely serving a warrant.

Riley now fears for his life but has shown tremendous courage in coming forward to lift the lid and expose the lies that the New
Hampshire police told the media in downplaying yesterday's events and hiding the fact that they were planning a raid.

Riley tells us that after he was arrested and taken to the Lebanon Police Department, he was told that authorities had been conducting
surveillance of the Brown's home on Wednesday and that they knew the Brown's owned a 50 caliber rifle because they had observed Riley using
it on the Brown's shooting range, while a squadron of snipers lay in wait should they have been discovered, aiming guns at Riley as he was
being watched.

Riley was interrogated by two FBI officials who called themselves Phil and Mark, and was threatened with 15 years imprisonment if he told the
media that the FBI were involved in the aborted raid on the Brown's property.

Riley was then ordered to lie to the media and tell them that during his morning walk, he had not seen armed U.S. Marshals but plain
clothed police officers who were merely serving a warrant for the seizure of the Brown's dental office 10 miles away, and that the
officers had simply tackled and not shot at or tasered him after he ran. Riley was told that if he didn't lie to the media he was facing
certain prison time or even death.

Danny Riley shows where he was tasered by U.S. Marshals in a video blog released yesterday.

Riley was then dropped off back at the Brown's home after the media had been allowed to approach the house. In an act of astounding
courage, Riley ignored the media as they yelled questions at him and headed straight into the house to tell Ed Brown that the FBI had
ordered him to lie.

Riley then emerged from the house and told the authorities what they wanted to hear - that he had relayed the cover story to the media.
Riley was then dropped off at a bus station and told by authorities that if he returned to the scene he would either be imprisoned or killed.

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Despite the fact that Riley bravely ignored the threats and did not relay the cover-story, the local media still bought the police's
explanation that they had never planned to raid the house and that, after erecting roadblocks a mile around, evacuating neighbors, cutting
the Brown's phone and power lines and deploying 6 helicopters along with a SWAT team and APC's, they were merely serving a warrant for an
empty property 10 miles away.

Danny Riley is risking his life by telling the truth - that New Hampshire police, led by the FBI, had conducted prior surveillance of
the property and were in place about to launch a violent siege against Ed and Elaine Brown before Riley's chance encounter with U.S. Marshals
led officials to abort the raid and manufacture a cover-story which they then tried to intimidate Riley into selling to the local media.

This represents open fraud, deceit and extortion on behalf of New Hampshire police as well as the FBI and Danny Riley's testimony
demands immediate attention from national as well as local media in the New Hampshire area.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/080607federalassault.htm

Brown Says Agents Came To Kill Him

Supporter Posts Video Online

Feds Insist No Raid Planned in NH

By PHILIP ELLIOTT

The Associated Press
Friday, June 8, 2007; 8:28 PM

PLAINFIELD, N.H. -- A day after heavily armed officers surrounded his fortified compound, a convicted tax evader said Friday he believes federal agents planned to raid his home before they were discovered by one of his supporters.

Federal authorities said they were only guarding Ed and Elaine Brown's 110-acre spread to protect against violence while they seized the woman's dental practice in neighboring Lebanon to help satisfy a federal court judgment.

New Hampshire state police stand watch on Stage Rd. in Plainfield, NH., Thursday, June 7, 2007. Federal authorities indicated Thursday they will not raid the home of two convicted tax evaders but did serve a warrant to seize property they own in a neighboring town. The warrant was served in that town and authorities had no contact with the couple at their fortified compound on a hilltop in rural Plainfield, U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier. Thursday morning, neighbors reported armed police and at least one armored vehicle near Ed and Elaine Brown's 110-acre property. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) (Toby Talbot - AP)

"We had no intention of assaulting the house," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said Friday.

A judge had ordered the property forfeited as part of the couple's sentence for scheming to hide $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003.

The Browns insist federal income tax laws are invalid and stopped attending their trial partway through. They were convicted in January and have been fugitives since they were sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison each at an April hearing they did not attend.

Their home has a watchtower and concrete walls and can run on wind and solar power. Ed Brown, who has at least one gun, has said he has stockpiled food and supplies.

Monier said the show of force was because Ed Brown had threatened violence against anyone trying to seize his property.

But Brown said: "He's lying through his teeth. ... Did I think the raid was imminent? Yeah. I was notified that they were on their way."

In a video clip posted Thursday on a Web site supporting the Browns' cause, a man identifying himself as Danny Riley, of Albany, N.Y., said he spotted a man in camouflage in the woods near the end of the long driveway while walking the Browns' dog Thursday morning.

"All of a sudden a guy stood right up in front of me with a full camouflage suit on and yelled, 'Freeze!' At that point I turned around and ran for my life," Riley said.

Riley, who said he was yelling that he was unarmed, claimed he heard two shots as he ran. He stopped, and the camouflaged men shocked and handcuffed him, he said.

They first asked him to try to negotiate the Browns' surrender, then strip-searched and questioned him for hours at a police station in Lebanon, he said. They asked about the Browns' compound, the number of people there and the weapons in the house, he said.

Monier said a man walking a dog had been detained but declined to identify him because he was not arrested. He said no deadly force was used.

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On the Net:

Audio clip of Ed Brown: http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com

Audio clip of Danny Riley: http://openyourmindseye.blogspot.com/2007/06/danny-riley-aka-dog-walker-expo

PLAINFIELD – "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."

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The voices of UnionLeader.com readers:

To Carol McCoy: Yes, the Constitution....The document by which you say is "The law of America, " states in the 16th ammendment "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." And, this was ratified by NH on March 7, 1913. So what again was your argument in defense of these dispicable people? I find it amazing when people skew the constitution so as to accept the ammendments they believe in (1st, 2nd, 13th, 14th) and ignore the others that they deem unacceptable. If you want to change the Constitution, I suggest you organize and do so politically. And until it's changed, you should do as "the law of America" says.
- Ben Clemons, Nashua

U.S. Constitution, Article One: Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; It would follow that The Congress gets to determine what types of Taxes it collects. The budgets passed by the US Congress and signed by the President are indeed the laws of the land. As are the income taxes and tax rates established by these laws. The route Brown is taking is not the way to fight or to change US tax law.
- Michael Costolo, Amherst

The United States Code (USC) is a compilation of the United States Statutes at Large. It is the US Statutes at Large that are ultimate evidence of the laws governing the United States. The USC is put together by the Office of the Law Revision Council of the US House of Representatives in order to simplify administration of the laws. The US Statutes at Large are kept in chronological order and contain all amendments, repeals, etc. This makes the Statutes at large difficult to reference. The USC is kept in order of subject matter and changed to reflect the current status of amendments, repeals etc. Some portions of the USC are fairly static. These sections are then proposed to become "positive" laws, meaning that, once approved, the section in the USC will become the current Statute. For Statutes subject to frequent revision, the USC section never has time to move through the process to become "positive". This does not mean "there is no law making an average worker liable for direct taxes on his paycheck". There certainly is such a law and if a court is not willing to accept the USC as prima facie evidence, one only needs to introduce the United States Statutes at Large, which are prima facie evidence.
- Terry Gibbons, Windham

The fact that everyone BELIEVES they HAVE to pay Federal Taxes is their own ignorance. This country is blind and lives in fear of their own "Government". Open your eyes and do some research Americans, instead of assuming that you actually do have to pay them and then post false comments based on your own "knowledge", just think for one second, What if this were true? Then you would be enraged and all the Americans who've lost their homes, jobs, and are in jail all because of something non-existent. Wouldn't you want your money back? Think about how much how long you've paid these Federal Taxes and how much you would be OWED. We are "The People", but we act as if we are powerless. We are the majority, and the majority rules. Stand up. WE as Americans need to live outside this so-called "Box" and read your laws. Watch this FIRST, THEN post your "comments" Find the truth here: http://www.freedomtofascism.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRs8Pn7TErU&NR=1 Free Speech cannot be taken away.
- Jeff Randall, Manchester

The view that Americans have no legal obligation to pay their Federal income taxes is absurd. Those who claim that everyone but them have been duped by the IRS to think otherwise are simply anarchists who egotistically think they are above the rule of law. The police should do their jobs and arrest these lunatics immediately, remanding them to the jail they so fully deserve.
- Frank Smith, Manshester

In response to Rick Lavallee, Manchester. What part of "there is no law making an average worker liable for direct taxes on his paycheck" is so difficult to absorb. Mr. Brown, and millions of other Americans would and do pay any taxes they are liable for. The fact is, and anyone can verify the facts for themselves, instead of just taking the IRS, DOJ, and Federal judges corrupt word, there is no law-period. The law of America is the Constitution. All Federal statutes, including Title 26 of the USC, must adhere to the Constitution. And, it does. Title 26 is not positive law, and as such listed in the Federal Register as applicable to everyone. Title 26 is "special law", applicable only to those who choose to volunteer into its jurisdiction. Before you spout-off about such things, Mr. Lavallee, I suggest you get your facts straight.
- Carl McCoy, Nashua

All Americans believe in justice, whether they support the income tax or not. Ed Brown was barred from presenting evidence at his trial. If his evidence was worthless or laughable he would have been convicted. But it is not justice to deny him his chosen defense. I don't know if Ed Brown is legally correct, but I believe he is morally right. And he is standing up for what he believes in. By doing so, he helps all americans.
- Susan Leach, Concord

Ed Brown is right on the law. Others have beat the same charge in court. some have gone to jail. but only because the courts DID NOT follow the law. Ed Brown has decided that he will not comply with an illegal judgment. What do you do in the U.S. if the court illegally convicts you wants to take you to jail take your money and property? If the courts are allied against you what's your recourse? Ed Brown made his decision. George Washington made a similar decision. I may not agree with all of Brown's rhetoric but, I think, legally an constitutionally he's on better ground than the state.
- Elijah West, Mechanicsville, VA

How long is this saga going to go on for? Apparently, the police are getting antsy and bringing in all sorts of equipment as a show of potential force. The Brown's have sworn death before surrender. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. If you want to live in this country, you have to help pay your share of the taxes that pay for local, city and state services: Police, fire protection; town roads, schools etc... Granted, the federal government can be the biggest, most disrespectful waster of our money but holing up in your house in protest is not the answer. If you're unhappy with the taxation, rally your townspeople and vote for the changes you want to see implemented. Barricading yourself in your fortified, well stocked (for now) house is folly. Look at the results of Waco, TX and the Branch Davidians. A small tractor in front of the door to the house is positively no match for an armoured vehicle. To the Brown's: Give up, pay your taxes and your penalties and seek redress in a calm, civilized manner in a court of law lest you be on the losing end of an outgunned, better equipped police assault. Patience is a virtue but not a limitless one.
- Rick Lavallee, Manchester

New Hampshire Tax Protesters Say the Bible Will Decide Their Fate

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Supporter Posts Video Online

Feds Insist No Raid Planned in NH

Ed Brown says feds have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire

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