Tax dodgers taunt police from hilltop compound

[nevadamedic]

Story Highlights
• Ed and Elaine Brown are convicted of tax evasion
• They have barricaded themselves in their New Hampshire compound
• The couple taunts police with references to 1992 Ruby Ridge shootout
• Tense neighbors fear the standoff could end violently

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/tax....ap/index.html

People like this are nuts, it is almost like they want another Ruby Ridge or Waco incident.

[Joe Steel]

Story Highlights
• Ed and Elaine Brown are convicted of tax evasion
• They have barricaded themselves in their New Hampshire compound
• The couple taunts police with references to 1992 Ruby Ridge shootout
• Tense neighbors fear the standoff could end violently

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/tax....ap/index.html

People like this are nuts, it is almost like they want another Ruby Ridge or Waco incident.

Though they have refused to leave the compound, U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier insists he has no plans to raid it to make them serve their time and will instead seek a peaceful surrender.

What's the point of having helicopter gunships if you're not going to use them.

[5stringJeff]

What's the point of having helicopter gunships if you're not going to use them.

Isn't that a bit extreme? These people are tax evaders, not violent criminals.

[JohnDoe]

On another note, nothing like living up to New Hampshire's motto:

"Live free, or die!"

[Pale Rider]

Story Highlights
• Ed and Elaine Brown are convicted of tax evasion
• They have barricaded themselves in their New Hampshire compound
• The couple taunts police with references to 1992 Ruby Ridge shootout
• Tense neighbors fear the standoff could end violently

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/21/tax....ap/index.html

People like this are nuts, it is almost like they want another Ruby Ridge or Waco incident.

They, like others before them, claim taxes are illegal. I respect them for taking a stand. And I bet the government has asked the MSM to NOT cover this, because they don't want people to support them.

[Joe Steel]

Isn't that a bit extreme? These people are tax evaders, not violent criminals.

They want a confrontation. Just like Randy Weaver and David Koresh, they will do whatever it takes to provoke one. Better to kill them first than take the chance they will kill a government law enforcement officer.

[nevadamedic]

They want a confrontation. Just like Randy Weaver and David Koresh, they will do whatever it takes to provoke one. Better to kill them first than take the chance they will kill a government law enforcement officer.

Exactly. They are law breakers period.

[5stringJeff]

Exactly. They are law breakers period.

What's the point of having helicopter gunships if you're not going to use them.

So, NM, you support using gunships to take out tax evaders?

[5stringJeff]

They want a confrontation. Just like Randy Weaver and David Koresh, they will do whatever it takes to provoke one. Better to kill them first than take the chance they will kill a government law enforcement officer.

If they wanted confrontation, they'd be shooting. As it is, they're staying in their homes and posing no threat to any law enforcement officers.

[nevadamedic]

So, NM, you support using gunships to take out tax evaders?

Yes, if they will not cooperate with the law. People will goto extremes not to get taken into custody. We cant put our law enforcement at risk like that.

[Joe Steel]

If they wanted confrontation, they'd be shooting. As it is, they're staying in their homes and posing no threat to any law enforcement officers.

Not if they want to make a statement. They think tax laws are wrong. They want a confrontation so they can put their beliefs before the public.

[Guernicaa]

lol these things make me laugh.

[nevadamedic]

Not if they want to make a statement. They think tax laws are wrong. They want a confrontation so they can put their beliefs before the public.

We have to keep radicals like that in check.

[5stringJeff]

Yes, if they will not cooperate with the law. People will goto extremes not to get taken into custody. We cant put our law enforcement at risk like that.

So these people, who are certainly flaunting the law, but not acting or threatening to act in violence, should be mowed down with helicopter gunships?

Wow.

Your (both Joe Steel and NM) sense of justice is warped, to say the least. I was not aware that nonviolent disobedience should rightly be met with lethal force. I guess Martin Luther King and all of the civil rights protesters in the '60's should have been shot up too, eh?

[Abbey Marie]

Put Rosie on their front lawn with a bullhorn. They'll surrender in 30 seconds.