A DUI is now one of the infractions that can cause a de facto iron curtain to fall across the Canadian-US border, separating friends and family members; other infractions include possession of marijuana, possession of a medical-marijuana card, shoplifting, and an arrest for attending a peace rally.
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The Freedom to Cross a Border
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There’s a third option as an anarchist: Civil disobedience. Cross anyway. It’s the longest border in the world with lots and lots of un- or sparsely inhabited land.
TERRORIST!
Achtung! Walter Ulbricht clones have not yet mined the borders, and issued, “Shoot to Kill” Orders… yet. Ten of millions of “undocumented immigrants” do it. Nothing prevents your friend from going to Michigan, Maine,or nine other states and just walk or drive over. Many hunters and friends make the logging road runs (while DWI) across the border.
Is it “Libertarian” to go where one is not wanted?
It is anarchistic. Don’t know about “Libertarian”, especially the big-L version you’ve used here, as I haven’t used that word nor has anyone else in this thread.
On what basis do you say “not wanted?” Because the state doesn’t want you? That’s BS. The private property you cross should have a say, but not the gang that runs the country.
LOL. Canada:
– Net tax consumer – check
– Alien, antithetical ethno-cultural background – check
– Casus belli due to country of origin being bombed by Canadian/US/NATO forces – check and check
– Five-year old DUI – hold on, pal. We’ve got standards here.
Thumbs up.
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Deep stuff there, Fighter.
Since the U.S. and Canada are in cahoots in this, I see it as a road to imprisonment in one’s own country. One can only imagine what’s next.
don’t be naive. the southern border leaks like a sieve. easy entry is easy egress.
Great article. No anarchist libertarian can overlook the implications of fencing an entire population.
What if you wish to drive from Washington state to Alaska?
You drive onto an Alaskan Ferry at Bellingham, WA.
And this is just Canada. If I want to travel to, say, India, I am forced to spend hundreds of dollars just to obtain a passport and a visa. If I fail to do this, I am literally not allowed to get on that plane. I am trapped, walled in, stuck, a prisoner in my own country. Then, to add insult to injury, even if I DO pay these government bribes giving me permission to leave/enter (!), the government slaps hundreds (yes, hundreds!) more in fees and taxes onto my plane ticket. Bottom line: we are prisoners in our own country unless we pay through the nose, in which case we remain prisoners on temporary parole.
Actually, this is a common misconception. Having a passport and a visa {i}does not{/i} give you permission to leave/enter the country. It gives you the privilege of an interview with an immigration officer at the port of entry. The officer has full discretion to either let you in or to put you in the next plane back home.
Actually, the US Customs Department is completely unconstitutional. Immigration was meant to be a state issue, surprisingly enough.
I wasn’t talking about the US in particular. This is how it works throughout the world: you get a visa, you arrive at your destination, you’re interviewed by an immigration officer. The immigration officer decides whether or not to let you in.
I know, tragically, firsthand what this is like.
My Canadian girlfriend was denied entry to the US on Valentines Day because the goons “didnt believe she planned to return to Canada.” I was cleared to go and they were surprised when I said I was going back with her. We went back to Canada and decided what to do and ultimately had to go home early because we couldnt afford to stay in Montreal for too long. When we had rested up the next day, she broke up with me. I just agreed because I thought of doing the same earlier. We started fighting and hating each others guts. Altho we have been getting along lately. Now she is deeply depressed and on and off thinking suicidal thoughts: that there is nothing to live for anymore. Meanwhile, she could be here, happily with me and with good friends in a nice area. Her town is miserable and small. What if she did do it?
All in the name of what? Stopping terrorists? Drug smuggling? Thank goodness, I dont have to weigh a death of someone I love against this “protection”.
If I had such strong feelings that I might contemplate suicide over not getting across the border I think I would find a way across the border. Beyond that I would seriously think about getting another girlfriend. This one seems a little unstable.
We are no longer together. That was not the reason why she became somewhat suicidal. The humiliation compounded her depression and returning to her home made it worse as well because no one seems capable of supporting her in the ways she needs. Shes been treated like garbage a lot of her life and a whole host of other things I dont want to bother you with for too long. Shes a bit stubborn and I offered to try to cross again, but she was so humiliated, she refused. I dont see how that is unexpected for a shy, 19 yo girl who is crossing for the first time. But still, we shouldve tried again. Amtrak is actually very easy too cross with. I wish Id done that in the first place, but I was in a rush to get home.
” . . They seem determined to burden the exercise of rights with transaction costs so heavy that the knees of the “free” will buckle under them. . .”
I am sure you are absolutely correct.
The reason for these procedures (by those who establish them, not implement them – their enjoyment is a secondary spin off) is indeed, subjugation.
Similarly, airport full body scanners are more about telling you you have no place to hide, even your body parts, from their gaze than any genuine attempt to defeat terrorism.
Privacy is a prerogative of the elite.
i had a 20 year old dwi it took 1 1/2 years to be deemed rehabilitated.i also had to provide tax returns. thats right tax returns to a foreign government in order to establish my rehabilitation status!
I would have rejected your rehab. You’d have to be under the influence to be willing to pay taxes.
Geez, Doug and Bob McKenzie got serious problems. And how fast can you say, “Up in Smoke” for bong touting Tommy Chong’s trip to Canada?
Try living in a place where getting on the “No Fly List” means a 1,300 mile boat ride or swim. Resistance is futile! One needs to cower and be groped by these BIG PEOPLE at TSA.
fondling is for true patriots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sAeWjarjWM
Great stuff, Wendy. Mises can use more of your anarchic insights. I’m surprised that you haven’t been arrested because in my own case it took being arrested for me to comprehend some of the methodologies of the police state to which you point. I certainly appreciate your analysis of the imposition of heavy “transaction costs” by the State upon our freedoms. I hadn’t thought of it that way, but it certainly is a sensible way to explain my reluctance to take a commercial flight, which I used to enjoy.
I also want to associate myself with J. MURRAY’S comment: “You’d have to be under the influence to be willing to pay taxes.
” Indeed! Why would anyone–libertarian, anarchist or merely human–voluntarily support the f-ing State that is tightening the noose around one’s neck.
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