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day after federal and state officers swarmed near the hilltop home of tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown, the couple thanked a supporter from upstate New York, Danny Riley, for saving their lives.

Riley, who posted a video account of his experience on the internet, said he was walking the Browns' dog early Thursday when he discovered a large group of U.S marshals hiding in the woods near the Brown's Plainfield house. The marshals, he said, shot at him and shocked him with a Taser. If not for that encounter, Ed Brown said yesterday, he and his wife might be dead.

"If it wasn't for Danny Riley taking that walk yesterday morning with the dog the way he did," Brown said yesterday on his daily radio show, Ed Brown Under Siege. "The fact that he did probably saved our lives."



On the video, Riley describes hearing bullets whiz by him as he yelled to the marshals that he was unarmed. Brown said on the radio yesterday that he also heard gunfire Thursday morning from his house.

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What I'd like to know is, how is this legal? I don't so much have a problem with paying taxes, we all have to do it. What does bother me is that instead of sending the sheriff up to the door with a warrent for their arrest, they decide to ambush them with swat team like tactics. Isn't that kind of what they tried at Ruby Ridge with pretty disasterous results?

Also, with this dog walker, if he was running away and had/was ot commiting a felony, the cops were not supposed to use lethal force. Law Enforcement is only allowed to use lethal force to stop a person who is either in the act of, is about to or has just commited a forcable feloney.

stories like this are the only thing keeping me paying the income tax
I truely believe it's harmful to the nation, but I'm too cowardly to act on my belief/principals
at least I'm not scared of getting shot for voting for Ron Paul next election tho, silver lining

I have trouble believing this story. He heard bullets whizzing by him? What kind of crappy marksmen would miss, more than once, a target that wasn't trying to evade them?

Just a little more to add that i just heard on the news. This guy and his wife, the Browns, living in New Hampshire, are hold up in a steel reinforced concrete house. He says that if someone can show him the law that indicates that he has to pay the tax, he'll gladly pay it. Well, I got it for him right here: 16th Ammendment. Congress shall have the power to levy taxes on income. Google it yourself.

Me, I really don't agree with the law to pay taxes as we do. I odn't so much mind the tax we pay at the store when we buy something but, I don't know that I like the income tax. Don't tax me on what I make, tax me on what I spend. That way, I'll have far more to invest on my own. Then you don't have to worry about Social Security, not thta it'll be around much longer to worry about anyway.

Yeah, my first thought was perhaps they fired warning shots in the air and he misremembered it later as "whizzing by his head".