Federal Agents Disguised as Supporters Arrest Ed and Elaine Brown
October 6th, 2007When I first heard about the Ed and Elaine Brown situation, I wrote:
Ed has been inviting people to his property to show support for him and the issues.
Insurgency 101: Don’t start a war with a powerful enemy and then issue a press release asking people you don’t know to show up and support you after the shit hits the fan. The biggest question I have at this point: How many armed feds are now in Ed’s house with him?
A few months later, I wrote:
The feds have now cut them off, but people are still being allowed to come and go from the property. Since the Browns have been inviting, “serious people willing to fight” to join them. Something is very wrong here.
When I first heard about this situation, I thought: Feds must be inside with the Browns.
The reason the feds don’t have the place completely barricaded is because they must have people inside who can report on the tactical situation. The feds might also be using this situation as a big honey pot to see how many people will actually show up.
My guess is that if the Browns asked everyone to leave, except for their lifelong friends and family members, the tanks would go in within hours.
For those of you who think you’re going to play Their game Their way, at least read Counter Insurgency for Dummies before going off half cocked like this. All of the 80 IQ fed knuckle draggers who are working this thing have. The Browns clearly have no concept of the counter insurgency tactics that states have been using against their own people for as long as there have been states.
Being right so often is getting to be a serious drag. Not only is it depressing, it’s not even intellectually challenging to make these calls anymore. Once you understand the basic scripts that evil employs, you’re in for a Bill-Murray-Groundhog-Day-type existence.
Via: AP:
After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
Ed and Elaine Brown, who vowed for months to resist if authorities tried to arrest them, put out a welcome mat for what they thought was a group of supporters. The people turned out to be marshals who arrested the pair without a single shot fired.
“They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said Friday, releasing the first details of Thursday night’s arrests.
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Experts had praised authorities’ hands-off approach before the surprise arrests, but patience had worn thin among some of the 2,400 residents of Plainfield, in west-central New Hampshire. During the summer, town selectmen asked Monier to stop the influx of militiamen and other anti-government groups to the Browns’ home.
Monier said he was sympathetic to the complaints, but cutting off access to the Browns would have undercut his plan.
“Ultimately, this open-door policy they seemed to have — which allowed the Browns to have some supporters bring them supplies, welcome followers, even host a picnic — this proved to be their undoing,” he said.
HA! What a perfect, if outdated, metaphor –
They’re vampires. All you have to do is invite Them in.
Those were the days…
Dont let the Trojans climb into the horse with you.
whoops!
Ever notice that the people who are motivated enough to do something tend to not have the skills, training, or brains to get it done. Whereas the people that do sit around and do nothing… (usually)