Another mini WACO in the making?
We may think we have it bad over here with ever more repressive (and unnecessary) “anti-terror” legislation, increasing numbers of cctv cameras on our streets, ID cards just around the corner, and the nanny state dictating how we should live our lives in ever more personal areas.
But, true to form, the Americans always have to do things on a grander scale.
So now we have the case of Ed and Elaine Brown, two New Hampshire residents, victims of unbelievably disproportionate State intimidation.
Indeed, “intimidation” is far too weak a word to use.
Amazingly it doesn’t appear that any of the media here in the UK have picked this up, yet its happening now, even as I post this.
To get the full story check out the following…
questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com
MyFOXBoston/US_Marshalls_Serve_Warrant_to_Seize_Brown’s_Dental_Office
EdBrownDocketSheet (pdf file)
IndividualSovereignty.blogspot.com/congressionalincometax
Watch Aaron Russo’s “Freedom To Fascism” for free at Google Video.
A Disturbing Expose of the United States Income Tax System
The question I have to ask, given how closely our own Government clings to the shirt-tails of the rogue regime presently installed in the White House, is how long before we see something similar over here?
And lets not forget Juan Carlos Menendez!
One thing’s absolutely certain - if another mini Waco’s to be avoided its imperative that as much media attention as possible is focussed upon this.
And whilst there may not be a great deal we here in the UK can do, at the very least we can phone a few folk to let them know the eyes of the world are on them…
Here is a list of New Hampshire Senators and the state governor…
NH SEN. JUDD GREGG
393 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2904
Phone: (202) 224-3324
Fax: (202) 224-4952
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Main District Office:
125 N. Main St.
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 225-7115
Fax: (603) 224-0198
Senator John E. Sununu (R-NH)
Web Site: sununu.senate.gov
E-mail: mailbox@sununu.senate.gov
Washington Office:
111 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-2903
Phone: (202) 224-2841
Fax: (202) 228-4131
Main District Office:
1589 Elm St., Ste. 3
Manchester, NH 03101
Phone: (603) 647-7500
Fax: (603) 647-9352
Governor John Lynch (D-NH)
State House, 25 Capitol St.
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 271-2121
Fax: (603) 271-7680
Note: To call the US from here you need to prefix 00 + 1
Update 09.06.07 04:02hrs
From Troy LaPlante’s Blog…
I have been following the case of Ed and Elaine Brown for months. They are a couple from New Hampshire in their 60’s. He is a retired exterminator, she is a dentist. They have been protesting the federal income tax system for a decade. I fully understand their protest, since I have read extensively on the subject and feel as they do. The federal income tax is an illegal, unjust tax. The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was questionably ratified in 1913. There is also a disputable requirement to file tax returns. The tax code also is not clear as to the requirement for individuals to pay such taxes.
The first person I knew about that stood as the Browns do is Irwin Schiff. He has been screwed over by the government quite a bit over income tax disputes. Now the Browns are literally under siege in a Ruby Ridge type scenario.
There are recent reports in the Union Leader and the Concord Monitor. I have also been watching the story on the Brown’s myspace page. Check out their blog activities on the myspace page for their side of things. Also, they have a blog. Here is their web site.
Here is an interesting video made last night by a friend of theirs who was shot at by either SWAT teams or soldiers surrounding the Brown’s property. If it is all true, then the siege has already turned violent with shots being fired, tazering a citizen, abduction of a citizen, and attempting to turn him against the Brown family. Sorry, but I consider this to be tyranny.
Another problem I have is that the Browns are non-violent offenders. They are tax protesters, for crying out loud! They are not murderers, rapists, drug dealers, arms dealers, or any such thing. The government is spending more money to lay siege to this couple’s home and business than they would be getting in revenue if they just paid the alleged tax debt. This is asinine.
Here is a video by the US Marshall’s service.
Here is an interview with Ed Brown.
I tried to embed the video of the dog walker who was snatched by the US Marshall Service, but Google video is hassling me about it. I gave the link earlier.
I don’t agree with everything that Ed Brown stands for. I realize that the government has said that he and his wife are convicted felons. I realize that he is a tremendous zealot in his views. I sympathize with him quite a bit. I have a serious problem with the income tax system. I believe that the government is corrupt in many respects. They don’t respect personal liberties.
The government is spending much more money to apprehend these people than they would probably be getting in tax revenue.
Another issue that bothers me is that we are told that states can and should do nothing about illegal aliens because it is a federal issue. Here we have federal tax dodgers being swarmed by state law enforcement agencies…but it is supposed to be a federal issue, right? What a double standard.
I find the firing of shots at a Brown family friend and supporter and hitting him with a stun gun inexcusable.
I will be watching this story closely.
And this from the New Hampshire Examiner…
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.
Update 09.06.07 08:09hrs
From: Leo/FightNWO-Resisting World Government
Date: 09 Jun 2007, 07:50
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 PlanetFriday, 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.
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.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.
Danny Riley shows where he was tasered by U.S. Marshals in a video blog released yesterday.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.
Question: Why are the mainstream media over here still occupied with rubbish about “Big Brother” and Paris Hilton, yet no mention of this issue that could have profound implications for us all?
