Posted on 10/05/2007 9:49:22 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
Concord – U.S. marshals posing as supporters carried out the arrests of convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their fortress-like home in Plainfield, the head marshal said Friday.
“They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said in the first public disclosure of details of the Thursday night arrest.
A small team of marshals pulled off the ruse, arresting the Browns without incident on the couple’s front porch, Monier said.
The arrests ended a months-long standoff that began when the Brown, 65, and his dentist wife, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord in January. She returned to the trial, but soon joined her husband at the home, where the couple vowed to resist violently if authorities tried to arrest them.
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NOW can we get a little peace and quiet around here?
Pay yo taxes bee-otch!!
The slave catchers got them.
So sad. These cheap bast**** get to skate on taxes while I have to pay up?
Amen—nobody LIKES paying taxes, but these two moonbats and their “supporters” took idiocy to a whole new level.
Another Concord was once the site of a patriot’s rebellion against a tyrannical tax authority. Its latter-day namesake seems to be populated by Tories.
Pride goeth before the fall.
When another man owns the legal right to the wages you earn you are a slave.
LOL! Goodbye, clowns. I hope their buddy Randy Weaver didn’t soil himself when the agents identified themselves.
OK, that’s pretty funny.
Really?
So if someone borrows money from someone else for tuition, and the borrower doesn't pay the lender back and the lender garnishes his wages - the borrower is therefore a slave?
What was the ruse? A long line of SUVs?
Janet Reno could take some lessons from these U.S Marshals.
Amen. Hate ‘em but got to pay ‘em.
Yes. Of Course.
That's why garnishments and levys are illegal in Texas - except for the government ones: taxes and child support. I'd like to see those abolished too.
Wage garnishments for student loans are completely legal in Texas and fully enforced.
I'd like to see those abolished too.
Really? So you believe that a parent has no legal obligation to support his children?
Wow, you’d do a Dem proud on your ability to take something out of context—bravo!
So quit earning or go somewhere else. You know the tax costs before you earn a dime, yet you choose to do so.
It's a matter of perspective. You can view it as they are robbing you at gunpoint of your wages. Or you can view taxes as an overhead cost to support the governments that make it possible for you to earn a wage. If you view those taxes as never your's to begin with, you'd be a happier person and more in line with scripture.
I'm not saying there's not waste, or corruption or unnecessary government regulation and intrusion or that taxes couldn't be a lot lower. I'm just saying, Jesus said pay taxes. Paul said pay Taxes, God told Israel that a ruler other than Him would require taxes. And the republic of "we the people" requires taxes. Taxes are a fact of life, deal with it.
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