For those of you wondering where our previously announced radio interview with convicted tax-evader Ed Brown ended up, you can stop looking. Despite speaking with one of his comrades "holed up" at the mountaintop "compound" several times prior to air time, when it came time for the interview, they never answered the phone. I guess when you’re planning "armageddon," it’s hard to maintain a real schedule. You never know when the federales might "storm the gates."
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During my last communication with the boys as they hunkered down under some sort of imagined "seige" confirming the interview that never took place, they babbled on about some movie proving that America has gone from freedom to fascism. While our freedoms are definitely being eroded in some instances, to think, as the Plainfield, NH bunch does, that it is a grand conspiracy on the part of some secret cabal, is a stretch.
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People have willingly handed away power and freedoms all on their own ever since the beginning of recorded history in exchange for comfort. No "invisible hand" needed. What we have in America is this natural tendency manifesting itself. All you have to do is watch or participate in politics at the local level to watch this happen. It is ALWAYS easier to say "yes" than "no" to the organized beauracracies and special interest groups. Taxes go up. Freedoms go down. This is the true battle.
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It’s too bad Ed Brown and company haven’t been using their talents and knowledge to win the battle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people so that they might vote accordingly and change the "regime" at the ballot box. Instead, they’re holed up in their compound, fighting an imagined war with real weapons and ammo. What a waste.
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They say that they won’t be removed from their fortress without a fight, which, incidently, the government has said they will NOT start. Fine. Ed Engler, editor and publisher of the local Laconia Daily Sun has the solution:
