The LA Times offers a feature article on Ed and Elaine Brown

in keeping with the story jim posted last evening, the la times has this tax protester story in today's edition...

Ed and Elaine Brown have been holed up in their home for six months, refusing to serve a five-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

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The Browns stopped paying income taxes in 1996. They say the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions support their claims that ordinary labor cannot be taxed. But a judge ruled against them in January, convicting the Browns of conspiring to evade paying taxes on $1.9 million in income from Elaine's dentistry practice.

[...]

They have garnered national support, with blogs devoted to news about the standoff and supporters regularly showing up on the couple's doorstep with groceries.

it's a fairly comprehensive and, seemingly, reasonably objective story...

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