# Ed Brown Raid - Tax Evasion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [June 12, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766 "2007-06-12T20:58:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2007, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/161 "2007-06-25T11:19:52Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper]
Isn’t it? When Mr. Jefferson is noted for one of the earliest, most significant expansions of the Constitution, can he really lay claim to being a strict constructionist?
[/QUOTE]
He was just a **practical** strict constructionist. 😃
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/162 "2007-06-25T15:18:55Z")
I guess that makes Scalia, Alito etc. **im** practical.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/163 "2007-06-25T17:38:20Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
I guess that makes Scalia, Alito etc. **im** practical.
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No, just idiots. :eek:
J/k 😛
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/164 "2007-10-05T22:29:05Z")
Um, here you go, folks, the latest in the saga: (can’t find a link to it outside of AOL or I’d post it) The feds impersonated supporters and arrested the Browns today. No shots fired, or anything. Property was booby-trapped.
More details as they become available…
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/165 "2007-10-05T23:03:46Z")
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21142564/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21142564/)
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/166 "2007-10-05T23:35:31Z")
Heh. Crime really does make you stupid.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/167 "2007-10-06T00:20:20Z")
Thank Og! I"ve had the Browns on my “Google alert” for months now. I’m free!
…and they’re not! Win win.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/168 "2007-10-06T04:12:48Z")
Glad it wasn’t another Ruby Ridge/Waco. Of course, their supporters will cry foul: “Hey, those Federal agents lied to them! They weren’t really supporters of the Browns!”
All’s fair in love, war and fugitive captures. 😃
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/169 "2007-10-06T04:29:01Z")
Call Nelson!
“Ha Ha!”
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### Author:  [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/170 "2007-10-06T06:11:10Z")
But,since there is nothing in the Constitution that specifically allows the federal government to build prisons, the prison that they are in cannot exist, and the Browns will just walk home tonight.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/171 "2007-10-06T14:27:07Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Call Nelson!
“Ha Ha!”
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Somehow, that does seem to sum up the whole thing…
It sounds like after they slap the Browns with the charges for booby trapping their land against the feds and laying in for a seige, the Browns will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-brown-raid-tax-evasion/407766/172 "2007-10-06T15:36:22Z")
You know you have to give the police (marshals, whoever) snaps for pulling off a fast, clean safe operation. It could have been Very Bad.
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