It’s sure looking that way, at least in the Browns’ case. From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Feds say they have no plans for raid on home of NH tax evader, who doesn't buy it:

day after heavily armed officers surrounded his fortified compound, a convicted tax evader said Friday he believes federal agents planned to raid his home before they were discovered by one of his supporters.

Federal authorities said they were only guarding Ed and Elaine Brown's 110-acre spread to protect against violence while they seized the woman's dental practice in neighboring Lebanon to help satisfy a federal court judgment.

“We had no intention of assaulting the house,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said Friday.

A judge had ordered the property forfeited as part of the couple's sentence for scheming to hide $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003.

The Browns insist federal income tax laws are invalid and stopped attending their trial partway through. They were convicted in January and have been fugitives since they were sentenced to 5½ years in prison each at an April hearing they did not attend.

Their home has a watchtower and concrete walls and can run on wind and solar power. Ed Brown, who has at least one gun, has said he has stockpiled food and supplies.

Given what’s said in the rest of the article, why should the Browns believe them? After what happened at Ruby Ridge and Waco, why should any free-thinking individual believe the federales?

I’m also all kinds of curious ... what, if anything, are Porcupines doing to help or support the Browns?