Posted on 01/20/2007 3:02:21 PM PST by Tim Long
The New Hampshire man who is holed up with armed supporters in his fortress-like house after being convicted of tax evasion says he just wants everyone to pay attention and obey the law.
"I want people to realize that there is no such thing as an obligation to pay income tax," said Edward Brown. "It has nothing to do with the Constitution."
A jury ruled Thursday that Brown and his wife, Elaine, plotted to hide their income and avoid taxes on Elaine Brown's income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003. Over 10 years, they also used $215,890 of postal money orders broken into increments just below the reporting threshold to pay for their hilltop compound and for Elaine Brown's dental offices.
After the pair were convicted Thursday on 17 felony counts, Brown and a group of supporters sequestered themselves in his home in Plainfield, N.H.
They say there is no law stating that they must pay tax on Elaine Brown's income. "We told them, 'Show us the law and we'll pay immediately,'" Edward Brown said in an interview Friday.
Brown said the tax-evasion charges were retaliation for a suit he filed against Judge Steven McAuliffe, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Morse and others after authorities raided his wife's dental practice last year.
"They had snipers with state troopers, they had 20 armed officers," said Brown. "What did they need all of them for? Just to download a computer?
"They've ruined my life. My wife is a basket case."
On Thursday, Morse ordered Elaine Brown not to join her husband at their home as a condition of her release until sentencing. She is now living in Worcester, Mass., with her son. The couple has been married since 1985.
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Crackpot.
was ruby ridge about tax evasion? as I recall in that case, weaver was setup on gun charges.
is there any evidence this man is not guilty of tax evasion?
There's one major consideration one should not forget.....the government has guns and the legal right to use them.
In the case of Weaver it was originally because of a shotgun sawed off 1/16 of an inch too short. What really got him was the perpetually moving court.
Millions on welfare depend on you.
I'm guessing he's one of those "Sixteenth Amendment Not Properly Ratified" whackadoodles.
FWIW, The 16th says that "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."
Sorry, Ed.
You don't have to pay income tax if you don't have an income. But if homelessness is not for you, well, sorry buddy.
Yes, one is a crackpot.
But 20 million would be a movement that sends a very strong message.
Pay your taxes. Your sons and daughters and neighbors, fighting bravely for their country in the Republics of Iraq and Afghanistan, depend on you.
Why not 20 billion? Or 20 trillion?
I've got lots of reasons for disliking taxes but they seem pretty small compared to the problems that would result from no one paying taxes.
"A jury ruled Thursday that Brown and his wife, Elaine, plotted to hide their income and avoid taxes on Elaine Brown's income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003. Over 10 years, they also used $215,890 of postal money orders broken into increments just below the reporting threshold to pay for their hilltop compound and for Elaine Brown's dental offices."
Sounds like they knew they were breaking the law. Guilty people do not go to that much trouble to hide things. Courts time and time again have stated that these arguments have no basis in fact. Sorry guy, but if you don't want income tax, try having a flat tax legislated or move offshore.
Yes, that the American people don't support their troops serving in time of war. Great message.
But I demand my tax money go and pay for every 1st grader getting access to free condoms.
I was corrected a while back on the subject of "state's rights" that governments don't have rights, only powers.
People have rights and powers. While we may endow government with powers, we can not give away our rights.
But 20 million would be a movement
Are there 20 Million..? I wish
Brown can name names of conspirators - Bill Clinton, George Bush, Janet Reno, Mikhail Gorbachev - and of organizations - The Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the American Bar Association, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the CIA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.He contends the deaths of religious cult members in Switzerland and Canada last week were ''another WACO,'' orchestrated by the CIA. And he believes even the baseball strike was part of a plot to squash anything American.
New Hampshire Sunday News, Oct. 9, 1994
I was more referring to the potential outcome.
Nah, this is more like Gordon Kahl and the Posse Commitatus standoff way back when.
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