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RATCHETING UP THE PRESSURE ON ED?

June 08, 2007

A report at UnionLeader.com makes it look like the Feds are stepping up the pressure on defiant tax evader Ed Brown:

Brown, who maintains there is no law that requires average American citizens to pay a direct tax on their wages, spoke to a group of reporters from a second-floor window in his house after a veritable army of heavily armed police officers and federal agents left the area around his rural home without ever making contact with him.

The government detained and questioned a man who discovered surveillance teams positioned around the house yesterday morning.

As Brown spoke, half a dozen helicopters made wide circles overhead.

The report also shows that in addition to bizarre tax theories, Mr. Brown subscribes to a variety of fringe political outlooks:

Brown, who asserts that the federal government has no jurisdiction in New Hampshire and no authority to charge him under a non-existent law, said the activity surrounding his properties in Plainfield and West Lebanon yesterday was a "Zionist, Illuminati, Free Mason movement."

As we noted yesterday, Mr. Brown also hangs with the 9-11 "truther" crowd, the folks who think that "9-11 was an inside job." It just goes to show - if your politics go far enough around the bend to the right, they meet the far left going around the bend the other way.

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