As you sit there contemplating this injustice you can feel at ease knowing that there is a balance of forces in the universe, and you may already know that the people who persecuted the Browns will indeed have a heavy price to pay, because the very same system that they worked with to steal the property and liberty of the Browns, will one day turn against them eating their pensions and retirement funds, bouncing paychecks, or paying them in American dollars that will in short order have the buying power of a worthless Zimbabwe note, which means that by selling their souls, they've only managed to buy themselves hopeless misery, and endless regret.

REMEMBER IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS. ITS ALWAYS BETTER TO TRY AND HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. GET RIGHT WITH THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. GET RIGHT WITH NATURE. REVERSE THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. FIND YOUR BALANCE, SO THAT YOU DO NOT FALL.

One must inquire why the government just didn't just show the law that made Ed and Elaine Brown liable for the voluntary income tax to avoid the expense and danger of a standoff. I say "voluntary" because the IRS's own literature informs you the income tax is based on voluntary compliance. No bureaucrat will ever assess your income; you do it yourself, voluntarily, waiving your Fifth Amendment right when you sign that 1040.

The 1040 instruction booklet, the Paper Reduction Act Notice and Privacy Act Notice all tell you that you only have to pay taxes you are liable for. Well, 26 U.S.C. 4404, 5505, 4786 are the liability clauses for tobacco, alcohol and wagering taxes. Where is the liability clause for the income tax? That's what the Browns respectfully asked for over and over, only to be shown the barrel of a gun.

The Browns didn't want to voluntarily waive their rights, but instead stood on them. They were willing to pay every penny, as soon as they were shown the law that made them liable. The Browns paid all their other taxes.

The people have a right to ask questions and get answers. This is found in the First Amendment. A maxim of law is "no answers - no taxes." It's the people's way to peacefully control an out-of-control government.

The Browns were justified and are now political prisoners.

Infowars July 9, 2009
Tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted today on all counts “of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fort-like rural home, where they had holed up to avoid arrest on tax evasion,” the Associated Press is reporting.

Both face mandatory minimum 30-year prison sentences on that charge alone, amounting to a virtual death sentence for the Browns, who are in their 60s.

Ed Brown testified during the trial that the weapons in his home were for self-defense. Brown said he believed the government planned to kill him, a not unrealistic assumption considering government action against the Randy Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, the residents of Mount Carmel outside of Waco, Texas, and countless other people who have resisted the government.

“By rejecting the rule of the law and substituting a personal code involving weapons, explosives and threats, the defendants committed increasingly serious crimes,” acting U.S. Attorney Michael Gunnison said. “Their conduct has no place in a civil society.”

In other words, resisting a criminal tax confiscation system and responding to threats by heavily armed federal agents has no place in a “civil society.”

The Browns are scheduled to be sentenced to death on September 3.