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37 years for Ed Brown
January 12, 2010
Ed Brown, the tax protester who held federal marshals at bay for months while holed up in his New Hampshire house, yesterday received a 37-year prison sentence on weapons charges arising from the holdout. This will be served after he finishes his 63-month tax sentence. Mr. Brown can now expect to celebrate his 100th birthday behind bars.
The sentencing judge ruled that he was free of mental illness and competent to participate in court proceedings. Nothing crazy about this:
During his pre-sentencing remarks to the court, Brown launched into a 45-minute diatribe against the "Freemason, Jesuit, Zionist" conspiracy that he said have formed enemy cells that are destroying basic constitutional principles upon which the nation was founded.
It seems not to have persuaded the judge, whose status as a Freemason, Jesuit or Zionist is undisclosed.
The Moral? Armed holdouts are poor tax planning.
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Tax protester Ed Brown received 63 months for tax evasion. You may remember that he decided to barricade himself in his New Hampshire home, fill it with weapons, and tell the government to go somewhere else. As Joe Kristan notes, “Armed holdout... [Read More]
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