He doesn’t like to call it a compound, so I won’t. It does have 10 inch thick concrete walls, though. When I heard that Ed Brown was allowing visitors to his “home” in New Hampshire, I had to visit.

Ed and Elaine Brown are a pair of famous tax protestors who are evading arrest in a standoff with the feds.

I exited the highway and passed a Wal Mart. Soon the road became only one lane each way. Soon it was winding through farmland. Shortly after it became a dirt road. The RV hopped over the potholes as veered left onto their street.

All of a sudden there were no more houses. Ahead was a small gravel road heading through the woods. Left over from a few weeks ago was a red, white, and blue sign that advertised a “freedom concert”. The date on it was a week prior.

I cautiously pulled into the gravel driveway. I’d read that they have a lot of guns and, by many accounts, are crazy. Would they be happy to have company? Would they be suspicious of me?

I pulled into a clearing and got a good look. To the right was a huge house with a 360 degree viewing tower at the top. Surrounding the house was a huge yard with a few RVs and tents on it. I wasn’t the only one visiting.

Coming towards me was a guy about my age dressed in a t-shirt and camouflage pants. He was holding an AR-15 semi automatic rifle, the civilian version of the venerable M-16. Things were already getting interesting.

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"Ed’s against the income tax, but that’s not what he’s about. Like pretty much everyone on the internet, Ed is sick and tired of the government absorbing our freedoms and operating corruptly.

The difference is that unlike everyone on the internet, Ed Brown is standing up for himself."

Exactly...

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hold it down!

this is so awesome.
there are quite a few people protesting the tax system in various ways. some elaborately.
it would be...a new era in america
if the taxation system were to really fundamentally be transformed. for many it's improbable. it wouldn't be the same america anymore. and it wouldn't - but it might be a lot better - a lot like home for more people.

these people are sick and frightening. I hope that the feds just close in eventually, and they kill themselves as they have promised to do. They are gun worshippers and they're pretty disgusting, and shouldn't be responsible for children. Fuck the 9/11 conspiracy theory crap. And members of the "Freedom Movement"? ..more like batshit crazy scumbags. Maybe freedom from sanity.