Posted on 07/23/2007 9:32:33 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
A retired couple in the American state of New Hampshire have become national causes célèbres after barricading themselves in their fortified home for six months and refusing to go to jail for not paying their tax.
Toting guns, quoting the Bible and pledging to fight for freedom, Ed and Elaine Brown are waiting in their remote hilltop home in Plainfield and daring the FBI to come in and get them.
Officials, who are seeking to enforce a five-year prison sentence on the Browns for tax evasion, say they are trying to avoid a Waco-style shootout.
The authorities have cut off power, internet, house phone, mobile phone and mail to the Browns' 110-acre compound. But armed supporters of the couple have been delivering food supplies to the Browns or championing their cause on the internet.The Browns, aged 66 and 64, stopped paying federal taxes in 1996, saying the US Constitution supported their claims that labour should not be taxed.
But in January a judge convicted the Browns of conspiring to evade paying taxes on £1 million in income from Mrs Brown's dentistry practice.
In June, they returned the tax bill unpaid along with documents purporting to establish their stewardship of the property "for the Lord".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This may be the way it all starts.
This is how it works.
"110-acre compound"
Loaded words.
I'll bet the real estate agent who sold them the place didnt use those words to describe it.
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