Ron Paul on Militant Tax Holdouts Ed & Elaine Brown [View all]

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I paid some attention to Paul's 2008 campaign, because at the time I was assigned by my newspaper to cover two of his biggest fans: Ed and Elaine Brown, a pair of New Hampshire tax cheats who engaged in a months-long standoff with the U.S. Marshals Service over the couple's refusal to pay federal income taxes. The Browns believed they lived on a sovereign enclave atop a hill in rural Plainfield, N.H., stockpiled scary weapons, and threatened violence against any federal agents who came on their property.

You would think a presidential aspirant would want to distance himself from such wackos. Not Paul, who declared in a videotaped interview that the Browns were "heroes":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L1RQkhjV85M

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/12/ron_paul_is_crazy_admit_it.php