In 2011 Shane Bunting, AKA Madchild, was detained at an American airport for approx. 8 hours before being told that he could not enter the country. Here is the statement he released shortly after: "When I was finally called up, the agent started questioning me about being a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club and when I replied, ‘No’, he just continued to repeat the question over and over again. After five more hours of waiting, watching him go back and forth, looking on the internet and asking me the same questions over and over again, I was finally called to the front desk. He asked me another series of questions and after a total of eight and a half hours of questioning I was told that I was officially banned from entering the United States. The thing that is frustrating to me is that I am being judged for the people I associated with and for some trouble I had back when I was a minor over sixteen years ago. In the last year I’ve managed to defeat my drug addiction and really worked on changing my life to become a better person. I’ve even started speaking at high schools here in Canada to talk to kids about the perils of drug addiction and hopefully use my journey to inspire the youth to avoid the pitfalls that I fell into. It’s extremely disheartening to me to know that after turning my life around, it feels like a second chance is evading me." We believe that Madchild is being unfairly judged and punished without ever receiving the proper due process of the law. We believe the Madchild can use the experiences and mistakes of his past in a positive way to help people all over the world to overcome the negative aspects of their own lives. He is already a positive inspiration to many people all over the world and we believe that will only multiply if he is given the chance to tour America again.
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