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S6 Ep80: The Standoff (Ed & Elaine Brown)

Swindled

Swindled

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

After refusing to pay taxes, a New Hampshire couple engages in a months-long standoff with federal authorities. 

Prelude: The Montana Freemen perpetrate a massive fraud scheme under the guise of sovereignty.

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They call themselves the quote, Freeman.

1:16.0

They don't obey laws, but tonight they're surrounded by officers of the law.

1:20.0

Hundreds of federal peace officers and police are laying siege to a heavily armed compound in Montana.

1:28.0

March 25, 1996 marked the first day of an armed standoff between the federal bureau of investigation and the Montana Freeman.

1:36.0

A right-wing anti-government militia group that had barricaded themselves inside a farmhouse in the small Easter and Montana town of Jordan.

1:44.0

About 20 group members remained on the property, including women and children refusing to negotiate.

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The standoff was the culmination of a year's long battle between the Freeman and any and all authority.

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