Ed and Elaine Brown recently received bad news from the First Circuit. Their July 2009 convictions were upheld. The convictions were for quite a few things, but it boils down to how they reacted to their 2007 convictions for refusing to pay income taxes. Instead of surrendering to serve their five year sentences, they fortified their home in New Hampshire stockpiling food and weapons. They had a lot of sympathy and support including an endorsement by presidential candidate Ron Paul, who compared them to Gandhi and Martin Luther King.