PLAINFIELD, N.H., June 19 (UPI) -- Two New Hampshire tax evaders say they
expect to die if authorities try to remove them from their heavily fortified home.
Ed and Elaine Brown of Plainfield, convicted of federal tax evasion in January, didn't bother to show up
in court for sentencing and were given five and a half years in prison, WCVB-TV
in Boston reported Monday.
They've been holed up in their house since April and Ed Brown told reporters who
gathered for a news conference Monday that if authorities move in on them "We're
dead. That's it."
He called police hired guns.
"All police officers today in this nation are mercenaries," he said.
Elaine Brown said thousands of people have been asking for years for the Internal Revenue Service to
show them the law requiring "the average American to pay tax on the fruit of their
labor."
"They have never done so," she said.
The Browns received moral support Monday from Randy Weaver, the Ruby Ridge whose
wife and son were killed along with a deputy U.S. marshal in a 1992 standoff in
Idaho
. Weaver held up a picture of his wife and daughter during the news conference.