New Hampshire Tax Protesters in Stand-off with Federal Marshals Part 7

Well it now seems as though the town of Plainfield and it’s selectmen are getting impatient with this stand-off between Ed and Elaine Brown and federal agents. They are demanding definative action.

Plainfield selectmen are frustrated over how local police were kept in the dark before state and federal officers swarmed the area near Ed and Elaine Brown’s home on June 7, and have asked the U.S. marshal for “definitive action” to end the impasse with the convicted tax evaders.

“We’ve got a whole bunch of residents in town that we need to protect and make sure their children are safe, and the way we can do that is with information,” Town Administrator Steve Halleran said.

They are also unhappy with the lack of communication when the Feds moved in to seize Elaine Brown’s dental office on June 7th.

Plainfield Police Department wasn’t told beforehand that such an elaborate operation was in the works.

“We basically got calls from commuters who were going to work” and saw armed personnel carriers headed toward the Brown house, Halleran said.

The exclusion was met with “frustration and disappointment” among Plainfield police officers, he said. “Those guys had helped the marshal service a lot, and there was no reason to not include them.”

Monier did not return two calls seeking comment yesterday.

After learning of the June 7 blockade on Stage Road, Plainfield police rushed to inform the principal of Plainfield Elementary School that students walking home would need to take a different route.

“We had to scramble a little bit,” Halleran said.

This, along with the addition of Randy Weaver to the Brown’s aide seems to have hightened worries that something may be imminent.

Marshals still hope to end this peacefully and still claim to have no plan to move in on the Brown’s.

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