Great piece, it's very disturbing that the same efforts to disarm the public are underway in the US and Canada as the surveillance police state rapidly expands and militarizes in both empires. The piece is most correct about the border being an imaginary line. Both governments serve the same corporate interests, and intend to rule the people through sheer force as was done in the Middle Ages. North America contains thousands of cultures and should not be ruled by two empires, but since it is we all need to unite to fight this tyranny and restore the principles that both Canada and the United States were founded on. Myself and my friends have also noticed far more customs checks entering Canada than coming back, I suspected the reason was guns but this confirms it.