“This is state, state land, I have nothing to do with the federals, nothing, not even their president,” said convicted tax evader Ed Brown.

That is what Ed Brown told Channel 3 during an interview back in January.  And they are sentiments that he still shares. Brown and his wife Elaine have not paid federal taxes since 1996. They have been convicted of tax evasion and were each sentenced Tuesday to serve over five years in prison.

“This is now a law enforcement matter from the United States Marshals Service and their law enforcement partners,” said United States Marshal Stephen Monier.  “Their sentencing does not change our strategy. The outstanding warrants are not going away and neither is law enforcement.”

Marshals insist there are no plan to go after the Browns. The Browns have not left their Plainfield New Hampshire home in months. They do not acknowledge their conviction, nor the sentence, and are showing no signs of turning themselves in.

The United States Marshals Service sent a letter to the Browns encourage then to do so. In it, it states: “the United States Marshals Service has maintained an open line of communication with both of you. We have, and will continue to take, all reasonable steps to resolve this peacefully.”

The entrance to the Browns driveway was quiet Tuesday afternoon. Their had been supporters camped out there in the past, but the Marshals Service sent out a warning to them as well.

“Anyone rendering assistance aid or comfort to the Browns in their continuing effort to obstruct justice and avoid apprehension maybe be subject to arrest or prosecution and certainly anyone now that they are convicted felons that provides the browns with weapons or ammunition is committing a separate felony,” Monier said.

Brown owns guns and has said in the past that it is an issue he is willing to die for– just like a minuteman who fought in the Revolutionary war.

“We fought then for the same reason. Over taxation without representation, started a whole new country because of it, and now we have the whole thing again,” Brown said.