Liberty on the Rocks™ Denver

If you follow me on Twitter you may have heard that MHD was denied entry into a country calling itself “Canada” on Thursday (yesterday). The problem is that we have friends in this Canada that we planned to visit for a week who we’re now unable to see. We’ll provide a thorough play-by-play about this incident later today but basically the plan was to drive from Vermont to Montreal for our meetup Thursday evening. The entire drive from where we had been in Vermont was less three hours but we planned to give ourselves an additional three hours at the border because of the self-important nature of the nation-state. Canada then did what nation-states do: had a thug grope both of us (states seriously pay dudes to feels other dudes balls), trash our home/office/vehicle and detain us for over four hours. They then threaten to seize our computers and vehicle if we refused to allow these uniform-wearing strangers to search them. They deleted our video (sound familiar?) and threatened to arrest us if we took more.

I was able to send a few tweets out and I talked to our buddy Xaq Fixx on the phone who filed this report at FR33 Agents:

Jason and Pete from Motorhome Diaries have been detained at the Canadian border leaving Vermont on I-91. They have been there for the last 4 hours, MARV has been searched by both state agents and the K-9 patrol. The MHD Guys were filming as the neared the check point, but the video was deleted and they were informed if they continued to film, record, or take pictures they would be arrested.

A box of literature from the Alliance of the Libertarian Left was taken, and a copy of Crispin Sartwell’s “Against the State” was left out on the counter. The RV was ransacked but thankfully not to the point it was in Jones County, Mississippi. Their laptops are now in the possession of the state agents, and those agents are reading about fr33 Agents, The Free State Project, and Jason & Pete’s former employer. One agent has accused them of ’spreading misinformation.’

The guys have been told that the state agents are looking for “Pornography or Heinous Propaganda.”

Thanks to Xaq and everyone for getting the word out. Over the next few days we’ll be covering border issues and Canada right here on Motorhome Diaries. Please stay tuned.

Tags: Syndication

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