Posted on 04/26/2007 6:21:34 AM PDT by blam
Snoop Dogg banned from Australia
Snoop Dogg was also recently denied a UK visa
Rapper Snoop Dogg has been banned from entering Australia after failing a character test, according to officials. The star - real name Calvin Broadus - was due to co-host the MTV Australian Video Music Awards on Sunday.
The 35-year-old had his visa cancelled after recently pleading no contest to gun and drug charges in the US.
"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told Sydney's Macquarie Radio.
Incidents
"This man has been a member of a Los Angeles gang, and is still associated with it apparently, that's been involved in murder, robberies and drug dealing in the LA area," Mr Andrews added.
Back in February, when Mr Broadus last visited Australia, immigration officials warned him then that he could face a ban if he got into anymore trouble.
The rapper now has 28 days to protest the decision.
Donald Etra, the rapper's Los Angeles-based lawyer, said he had not heard from his client about the visa cancellation and could not comment.
Snoop Dogg was forced to pull out of his UK tour with P Diddy
The decision follows a string of incidents that Mr Broadus has been involved in over the past year.
He was recently given five years probation and 800 hours of community service in the US after pleading no contest to gun and drug charges.
And last month he was forced to scrap his UK tour with fellow rapper P Diddy after authorities denied him a visa.
On a previous visit to the UK, the rapper and members of his entourage spent a night in jail after being accused of starting a fight at Heathrow Airport.
He was also held overnight by police in Sweden on suspicion of using drugs.
Fo shizzle mah nizzle...mate. Crizzikey, biatch.
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1990s - Snoop Dog was arrested for possession of cocaine. Over the next three years he spent time in and out of prison.
July 1993 - Snoop was stopped for a traffic violation and a firearm was found by police while conducting a search of his car.
In February 1997 he plead guilty to one count of being an ex-felon in possession of a handgun and was ordered to record three public service announcements, pay a $1,000 fine, and serve three years probation.
August 1993 - Snoop was charged for being an accomplice to the murder of Phillip Woldermarian.
In February 1996, with the help of attorney Jonnie Cochran, Snoop was found not guilty of all charges but voluntary manslaughter, on which the jury deadlocked.
May 1998 - Snoop Doggy Dogg was arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession. He was fined of $100, plus a $170 penalty assessment fee and a $100 payment to the Victim's Restitution Fund, for a total cost of $370.
October 2001 - Snoop was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, after his tour bus was stopped and searched in Ohio. In May 2002 he pleaded no contest to the charge and was fined a total of $398.30 and a suspended 30-day jail sentence.
April 2003 - Snoop Doggy Dogg's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, was grazed by a bullet after unknown assailants showered Snoop Dog's car and other cars in his entourage with bullets.
August 2003 - Snoop was named in an affidavit claiming that he and the makers of the "Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style" tape lured two underage girls to take their tops off for the camera by offering them marijuana and ecstasy. The suit was settled in July 2004.
"Bring over some of your old Motown records,
Put the speakers in the window and we'll go
On the roof and listen to the Mircles
Echo to the alley down below..."
(Lordy,lordy, makes your heart just sigh, doesn't it? 
)
Sorry but this doesn’t smell right. You don’t need visas to visit the UK or Australia. There are about 15 countries with the visa waiver program in place. Have Passport, will Travel.
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This is America. Dammit! Speak English.
Sounds like a plan to me. Not sure of his swimming credentials, but that shouldn't be a factor.
Did the article mention an awards show or something? Probably needed a work visa.
That was just my impersonation of Snoop Dogg working on his Australian.
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I think that there would be a HUGE market out there for some real music, like they used to make in Motown. Songs about love and fun and summer and friends and having a good time, Not hate and racism and killing and raping and drugs. The Generation of Free Love has brought us nothing but wholesale HATE................
Message to the top guy at the Australian Immigration Dept: Give me a break,man.You do *not* want this scumbag in your country.Tell him to take his his 28 days and shove them up......
I believe that has changed or is soon to change.
US citizens most certainly do need a visa to enter the UK and Australia.With both countries it's very easy for most folks to get that visa...it's pretty much automatic.However,if you're an "undesirable" (my word) both countries have the right to,and *will*,exclude you from entering.
Same goes for British and Australian citizens wishing to enter the US.
Just keepin’ it real ...
And you are most certainly wrong about that.
Now, apparently Australia does require visas of US citizens. But there is an ETA for 20 aussie dollars (Electronic Tranist Authority) so it's not technically a visa stamp in the passport but close enough.
Although it may be technically incorrect to do so,I'm using the word "visa" to be roughly synonymous with the phrase "leave to enter".
For example....in most cases a US citizen wishing to visit the United Kingdom for the purposes of tourism for,say,two weeks doesn't need to have anything stamped in his passport saying he has permission to enter the UK when he leaves the US.The same,I believe,is true of UK citizens wishing to enter the US under the same circumstances.*However*,if that foreign national arrives at an immigration checkpoint in,say,New York or London and is deemed by the Immigration Officer to be "unfit" to enter,that foreign national *will* be denied entry and placed on the next flight to the country where his trip originated (I know...it almost happened to me in South Africa).
So,anyone who might suggest that Snoop Dogg might have some kind of inalienable right to enter Australia (and I don't know if *you* did so) is absolutely incorrect...regardless of what stamp Mr Dogg may or may not have in his passport.
I have. It’s a beautiful country. If I ever defect, (small chance of that happening), Oz would be my choice.
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