YOUR COMMENTS

I wonder how much of our tax money is being spent on this strong arm collection effort?
I also wonder why the Browns feel such a need to waste their lives because of a few dollars. Life is way to short I'm all for taking up a cause but at what price. Pay up and use the courts and you elected officials to solve the issue. It's going to be hard to fight if your in jail or perhaps taking a dirt nap.
- Carlene Webster, Manchester, NH

The browns are nothing more than common criminals, and deserve to be treated as such. Theirs is not a stand against a perceived corrupt government trying to control them, rather it is an attempt to avoid being prosecuted for criminal behavior and having to pay the price for that behavior. Invoking God or pretending to be a defender of the Constitution is just a smoke screen. They know they deliberately tried to avoid paying taxes, and they also knew that that is illegal. They also know that they have no legal basis for their behavior. Rather surprising behavior for someone as well educated and accomplished as Elaine Brown. One can only assume they were fully aware of their actions as well as the consequences, and now they simply refuse to pay for those illegal activities. The Browns brought all of this onto themselves and have no one else to blame.
- ed, Antrim, nh

Do people deserve to die because they refuse to pay taxes to a corrupt and criminal government?

And when armed men, representing that corrupt and criminal government, show up on YOUR property, with the intent to capture or kill you, do you not have the right to defend yourself and your family? --Those who serve the system, those willing to KILL nonviolent citizens for refusing to submit, are little more than mercenaries. They are hired guns; they become criminals themselves.

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- Joe Plummer, New Hampton

It’s amazing Americans have sympathy for these clowns. They have been robbing the system (and you and me) out of thousands of tax dollars and people are sympathizing with them. If they were an older couple that were barely making ends meet, I would totally understand. But they have made millions, yes I said millions and they are robbing all of us (including our service men and women) out of a simple yet important way to make our country a better place to live. How do you think our roads and bridges get fixed when we have had major flooding and other natural disasters? How is it possible to pay all of the government workers to protect our country and do their jobs if you don’t pay taxes? If you don’t like the system, either join it and make change, or get the hell out and find another place to live. What upsets me the most, is they pull out the “god” card and try to make themselves sound like martyrs and “ go down for the cause”. You got to be kidding me. Get off your soapbox and stop using God as if he was some kind of “get out of jail for free card”. As most of you have read, these people set up a fortress in preparation for what was going to come. Doesn’t that bother you? To know that that they will use the media as an outlet for their improper behavior to get people to empathize with them like they haven’t done anything wrong, and use God as the backbone for their defense. I am offended as an American that 1st, they can claim that they don’t have to pay taxes like the rest of us and contribute to the better of our society (and believe me, I don’t like paying taxes either) and second, they try and use God us an excuse for their poor and improper behavior. Get a life and stop acting like you’re doing us a favor, because you’re not, and you’re wasting allot of taxpayer money waiting to go to jail, where you belong.
- Chris Levesque, Manchester

Ed and Elaine are heroes who will undoubtedly end up dead because the Fed’s WILL extract their pound of flesh. This government by the people for the people has turned on the people. It only serves itself. A Flat tax and living within a budget like all the people have to do is not acceptable to the rich that run this country. As long as the working man and woman have money in their pockets the government will go after it. We are One Nation Under Surveillance.
- Dave Abbott, Stark

I have just become a Union Leader reader. I am horrified by the unconstitutional actions of local, county, state and federal law enforcement personnel. Are we as patriotic citzens to stand by while para-military forces operating outside the boundries of the Constitution degrade and decimate fellow American citizens such as the Brown's.
For every Mr. and Mrs. Brown that we hear about there are thousands more every week who get the fruit of their labors pillaged by rogue forces.
I urge this newspaper to answer the call and report unbiasedly and instantly on the Brown's and the draconian misuse of unconstitutional power by governmental personnel.
I urge the citizens of your great state to rally as you once did during our war for independence from England.
This is not about the Brown's. This is about every American and their childrens' futures.
I will do my part and rally people here in AR. We cannot and will not tolerate another Ruby Ridge or Waco.

Sincerest Regards,

William Conrad
Centerton, AR.
- William Conrad, Centerton, AR.

Leave the Browns alone. Let them live out their lives peacefully; the government will take what it wants when they pass on. One way or the other they always get us.
- Raven, Milford NH

I wonder if her dental practice would have accepted payment from a state or fedral employees dental insurance which would have been payed for with..........you guessed it, tax dollars. I bet she would. They'll spend it but they dont put in on it.
- john p cerami, Plymouth

The Feds can come against a peaceful, self-sustaining elderly couple (who simply want to be left alone) with guns & tanks & planes & drones, but they can't manage to protect our borders & are getting ready to grant "tax amnesty" to illegal aliens? What's wrong with this picture???? I'm sure the Browns would like a little "tax amnesty" right about now & they're LEGAL BORN & BRED AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!!! Where is the justice? The equity? The humanity? God help us all.
- Kim McDaniel, Los Angeles, CA, USA

You have got to be kidding me. These people are crazy and selfish. As a member of society, you surrender a certain degree of absolute freedom in exchange for membership in that society, its protections and benefits. The Browns have undoubtedly used public resources paid for by taxes before constructing their outrageous compound. What is illegal is amassing an enormous wealth and not paying your fair share back to the society to which you belong. I do not support armed action against these idiots, but the state should seize their assets and put it to some good use (say public education) as opposed to constructing pretend forts.
- Micahel Bellefeuille, Bedford, NH

God bless Ed and Elaine Brown for taking a stand against illegal taxation on our labor. This armed force response is insane and if we don't voice our outrage we will be part of the problem not part of the solution. The police used to be public servents what happened? Do we now live in a military police state?
- Betty Jones, escondido ca.

Corruption!
This on going threat by the state upon the Browns in Plainfield NH shows the continuous corruption of Government to justify any way they can to steal money and property from its citizens. Most people in this state when retired cannot aford to pay taxes for a long period of time before losing every thing they worked for during their entire lives. Why does it have to be foreited to the state? Its called corruption at its best. This is what Carl Draga complained about for years, unfair TAXES. The state was driving him into poverty. He killed people over this and yet what else could this corrupt state exspect?
- steve, Rochester