Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted Thursday on all counts of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff - Couple Gets Minimum 30 Years In Prison
Tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted Thursday on all counts of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fortified home in rural Plainfield, N.H.
One charge carries a mandatory minimum 30 years in prison. The Browns are in their 60s.
The Browns holed up in their hilltop home in early 2007 to avoid arrest after being convicted of tax evasion. They amassed an arsenal of high-powered weapons and explosives, including booby-traps in woods surrounding the home.
Ed Brown testified the weapons were for self-defense, saying he believed the government planned to kill the couple.
The Browns' arrests ended a standoff that lasted from January to October 2007, when Ed Brown, 65, a retired exterminator, and Elaine Brown, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord.
Sentenced to 63 months in prison, they refused to leave their Plainfied home, sustained by stores of food, supplies from supporters and a fan base stoked by constant postings and broadcasts on the Internet.
The verdict came after seven hours of deliberation over two days.
Uploaded by libertyontour on 11 Jun 2011
Four years ago a Plainfield, NH couple found themselves threatened by strangers with guns who demanded their property. Rather than submit to their demands the pair - Ed and Elaine Brown - stood up for their rights.
Their actions brought them support from many others who reached similar conclusions - that another individual doesn't have a right to your property simply because they claim that's the case. Despite harming no one Ed and Elaine Brown were kidnapped and were ordered caged for decades.
"The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit -- Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do -- He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that."
-- Lysander Spooner
_________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
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