Feds Corner Home Of Convicted Tax Evaders

(CBS/AP)  Federal authorities have cut phone, power and Internet service at the fortified compound of a couple convicted of tax evasion who have refused to report to prison.

It's unclear what effect that has on Ed and Elaine Brown, who have solar and wind power generators at their 110-acre spread, where they have been holed up for months.

Authorities say they don't think the Browns' equipment is sufficient to keep the home running for long.

U.S. Marshal Steve Monier acknowledged Wednesday that waiting out the Browns could take months, but he said time was on authorities' side. He said he hoped prison would seem like an agreeable option for the Browns after a summer without air conditioning and possibly a winter without heat.

The Browns, who insist federal income tax laws are invalid, were sentenced to 5½ years in prison in April. They were also ordered to forfeit $215,890 to the government — the amount the government says the Browns purchased in small postal money orders in order to avoid paying income tax on Elaine Brown's dental practice income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003.

Authorities surrounded their property last week and cut its utilities this week.

"We have seized their phone and Internet service, and two days ago, we cut their power," Monier said. "It's a continuing effort to move them along to understand they need to do the right thing, and this is to surrender to us."

Monier said last week's heavy law enforcement presence was a surveillance mission. Ed Brown predicted then that authorities would try to take him by force.

But Monier said he has no interest in raiding the house or harming the Browns. He said he just wants justice served. "We are committed to ending this peacefully," he told a newspaper.

"It's unfortunate that the Browns are taking this position they have been throughout the process," Monier said. "There's been an outcome, and they need to surrender."

Monier told the Manchester Union Leader his office was flooded with telephone calls Tuesday — at one point as many as 200 an hour — after Web sites implored federal authorities to leave the couple alone and urged supporters to call the Marshals Service, the governor and sheriff.

[jjarden]

Here we go again...Ruby Ridge amd WACO Redux. You just watch the way this transpires...The Government is going to Murder this fellow, just like they murdered Randy Weavers wife and child, and 75 men, women, and children at WACO. And they're going to get away with it...Again. Many people are saying that he should just pay his taxes, just like everyone else. Did you ever stop and think about what he is saying and doing. Her is saying that there is NO LAW that we have to pay taxes, and the Government has not once shown that law. He is asking for them to SHOW the written LAW, and they are not producing it, becuase there ISN'T One!! He is saying that he is doing this FOR US. He is making a STAND for us. Are ew going to let him down? The problem here is that the Government has provided itself with a "legal" Right and Monopoly to inflict Force, Terror, Torture and Murder on it's NON-VIOLENT "Citizens" and WE THE PEOPLE have alloweed this to happen. When are we going to make them stop?

[libertymike1]

Speaking up: Upon what evidence are you asserting that the Browns are expecting somehting for nothing? Do you know them? Have you had business relations with them? Have you talked to patients of Mrs. Brown who have claimed that they paid her for nothing? That she charged themn for services that she did not render? Did the Browns fail to pay their mortgage? How about their electricity? Their cable?

Do you have any information to the effect that the Browns did not pay the entire cost of gasoline when they filled up at the station? How about their telephone bills? How about every time they made retail purchases in the socialist haven of massachusetts?

So, speaking up, I am sure you will concede that the Browns have paid taxes and taxes-probably a hell of a lot more than you have in your lifetime-(but I do not know that so that is why I am saying probably). I bet they have paid a hell of a lot more in taxes then they have received in "benefits".

The Browns have been paying real estate taxes, I presume or else their town would have taken steps to remedy that, including auctioning off the Browns property. If they drink alcohol, the chances are pretty good that they bought their booze at one of New hamshire's liquor outlets-the state has a monopoly on the retail sale of booze(save bars, restaurants,etc.)

Seems to me that the Browns have "shared" quite a bit of their wealth with Caesar.

[libertymike1]

Newton 221: How can you say that the government did not convict the Browns? The government made the decision to take your money and my money and devote that money to the prosecution of the Browns without my consent and then they gave some more of your money and some more of mine and paid the judge who presided over the Browns trial and wouldn't you know it, the same judge decided to prevent the very same jury from hearing all of the evidence and from hearing all of the Browns' defenses.

The losers are those that choose to beg caesar for a few crumbs.

May you Live,

IN LIBERTY

[speakinup]

Someone else that wants us to pay for their security, roads, well being and all the rest... I often don't like being taxed, but pay them anyway, because I choose to accept the benefits. If they don't like the cost, either do what you can to correct it via a lawful method, or go elsewhere. Don't expect something for nothing.

Bottom line: Charge THEM the extraordinary costs it takes to get the taxes from them.

[blackbane-2009]

Taxes on income are indirect excise taxes paid for products produced from labor.

Example 1: My finished product is a $100 bottle of fine whisky. If I sell 500, my income is $50,000 ($42,500 for me, $7,500 for Uncle Sam). So what is that $7,500 in tax? 15% Excise taxes to which no one challenges the legality because of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. This hated whisky tax is as old as the Founding Fathers, and no one seems to be at odds as to its legality.

Example 2: My finished product is a fully mowed lawn for $100. If I sell 500, my income is $50,000($42,500 for me, $7,500 for Uncle Sam). Again, what is that $7,500 in tax? You got it, excise taxes to which no one should challenge its legality.

Each of the above are tangible products produced from labor. You never had a bottle of whiskey till I made it, nor a fully mowed lawn till I cut it, nor a Crabby Patty till I cooked it.

Now that I have insanely, yet logically, connected the dots, per the request "Show me THE LAW". Here is "THE LAW":

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 shortened :
"Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Excises which shall be uniform throughout the United States"

As for the Brown's. They slithered about sneakily in the shadows to hide their money and cheat the system to pay for an expensive life style. They got caught and found guilty like moonshiners selling illegal untaxed hooch. Now it is time for jail just like the moonshiners.

[kissthesky--2008]

The duplicate posts were not deliberate.

I agree that the news media in general has failed our nation.

They feared being labeled as unpatriotic if they told anything but the "Official" AP NEWS sanitized version of the truth.

I'm sure they were all under tremendous pressure from their sponsors and did not have the guts to risk having big money ads pulled due to political differences.

This tax story is BIG NEWS, but once again the media has no guts.

The Federal Income Tax was written as a temporary measure
and was only meant to affect Federal and certain priviledge employees.

It was NEVER meant to affect Workers in the private sector at all.

The IRS is a tax processing agency, nothing more.

You should also note that cases dealing with Income Tax are
tried in TAX COURT, because the Federal and State courts have no jurisdiction. WHY? Because there is NO LAW!

I challenge CBS to expose the TRUTH

[cva175]

"We have seized their phone and Internet service, and two days ago, we cut their power," Monier said. "It's a continuing effort to move them along to understand they need to do the right thing, and this is to surrender to us."
That is quoted directly from the above story-if that dosent sound like gestapo i dont know what does-this country pretty much sucks and has for years, and will continue to unless we the people take action-we need to organize and march on these fools that call themselves our leaders-come on America we've done this before to the english, lets do it agin for ourselves !

[postamerican]

DOH! sorry about that!

[postamerican]

Uh is this real? Is this Satire or the Onion? ..holed up for months...
Authorities say they don't think the Browns' equipment is sufficient to keep the home running for long...waiting out the Browns could take months, but he said time was on authorities' side...after a summer without air conditioning... and possibly a winter without heat...Honest to Christ who writes this stuff? 2,099 days since WMD said he'd catch uh UBL???

[postamerican]

Uh is this real? Is this Satire or the Onion? ..holed up for months...
Authorities say they don't think the Browns' equipment is sufficient to keep the home running for long...waiting out the Browns could take months, but he said time was on authorities' side...after a summer without air conditioning... and possibly a winter without heat...Honest to Christ who writes this stuff? 2,099 days since WMD said he'd catch uh UBL???