Like Fela
Kuti's persecution in Nigeria, when a musician becomes an
enemy of the state, fellow musicians will speak out! Snoop Dogg, who
began carrying a defense weapon when airport security personnel began
harrassing him and denying his freedom to travel, is not free to enjoy
himself, defend himself, or travel in the English speaking countries.
Police don't show half the enthusiasm in prosecuting the murder of Jam
Master Jay as they do shaking down rap artists such as Snoop for
thousands of dollars, and incarcerating them for imaginary infractions.
Snoop Dog was arrested three times in three months stemming from his
initial arrest for posessing a self-defense weapon at an airport. We
should therefore assume that Snoop Dog is under constant surveillance
by the police, as were Biggie and Tupac right up until they were
murdered. Since all local police departments in the United States have
been acquired by Homeland Security and the various unnamed black box
departments of the police state, we must assume that Snoop Dog has been
subject to any or all of the following:
Dossiers.
Through the wall spying.
Virtual Strip Search spying by the "see through clothing" radar
camcorder which was taken off civilian markets and given to the police.
Satellite spying.
GPS tracking via cell phone.
Wire tap.
Data Compiling of public records.
Snoop Dogg's
"criminal" history:
1990: Cocaine posession arrest
1993: Gun Posession Charge at traffic stop. 3 Years Probation.
1996: Murder Acquittal for bodyguard driveby shooting.
5 2006: Brawl at Heathrow Airport where Snoop and crew were denied
access to the British Airways flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. 7
Officers Minorly injured after trying to shove them to the baggage
claim. Snoop Dogg is banned from travel to the UK.
Sept. 27: Snoop Dog stopped at John Wayne International Airport in NY
with collapsible baton . Not arrested. Charge considered a felony.
Oct 23 MONDAY: Prosecutors "considering charges." Sheriff's spokesman
is Jim Amormino.
Oct 27 2006: Burbank California. Snoop arrested by Bob Hope Airport
police in a parking zone for 'vehicle code violation' searched,
arrested for suspicion of being a felon in posession of marijuana and
guns. Posted $35,000 bail. Orange County DA had been "considering
charges" since NY.
Nov. 6: Snoop turns self in in response to arrest warrant and posts
150,000 dollars bond for the baton incident.
Nov. 30: Burbank Police Dept. gets in on the circle jerk and executes a
search warrant on Snoop at NBC Studio as he leaves the Jay Leno Show,
arrested on weapons and narcotics charges. Police say they found the
rapper in possession of cocaine, a firearm and a large amount of
marijuana. He was also cited for allegedly having a false compartment
in his vehicle.
Examples of
Homeland Security and its subsidiaries directly meddling in the lives
of rappers:
Dec 1997:
ATF mounts gun investigation of Wu Tang Clan member The RZA (Robert
Diggs).
May 18, 1999:
FBI closes its Full Field Investigation into Jewish Defense League's
death threats and extortion of NWA's Easy E. (Eric Wright) and several
unnamed rappers. Leader of JDL commits sucide in prison after being
arrested for the assassination attempts on Congressman Darryl Issa.
1999:
Street Crime Officers Christopher Roche and and Ol' Dirty Bastard
(Russell Jones) have a shootout at a traffic stop in Crown
Heights. Dirty arrested. Grand Jury refused to indict, believing the
police started it by pointing guns at their heads.
2000:
Congressional hearings in which Rap A Lot Records and rapper Scarface
was under surveillance in Houston, TX by IRS, DEA, and FBI.
2001/2002:
New York City develops special operations unit to deal with rappers.
Miami Beach DEA exposed by Nicole White and Evelyn McDonald in
maintaining 6" dossiers on visiting rappers.
2002:
Slick Rick (Ricky Walters) arrested and denied due process by INS (now
part of DHS) after performance, on basis of 1997 INS warrant.
Feb 2003:
SWAT teams placed on standby for 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) Concert in
Cincinnati.
June 2005:
FBI drops investigation into Nototious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
homicide. The FBI had been looking into a theory that rogue police
officer David A. Mack and gunman Amir Muhammad were involved, but
decided there was not enough evidence for a prosecution.
Oct 2006:
Homeland Security presses forward the vacated case against Slick Rick
urging his deportation.
The Haters
Magazine Opinion:
It is Haters Magazine's position that local police forces in concert
with the Department of Homeland Security are surveilling and
persecuting Rap Artists , especially "Gangsta Rappers" because through
their music they have become very influential in American civilization,
and have conjured in the public imagination the idea of personal
freedom idealized as a person who through toughness, bravado, and
criminality engages in all the proper freedoms befitting a human being.
This is contrary to the public image of the Police State which puts
forward the image of the toughness of duly approved custodians of
civilization in their blue suits, with their gold badges, their guns,
their flashing lights and their hooting police vehicles. The image of
the Police State is one of obedience and fear, whereas the image of Hip
Hop is disobedience and fearlessness. Police are considered to be
effeminate, or pussy, whereas rappers are considered to be masculine.
Police are suffering from a public image of faggotry. In retaliation
for this public image of faggotry, the police must actively threaten
public icons with disarmament, subservience, confiscation, and the
specter of strip searches, cavity searches, placement in a dark
solitary hole, and sodomy.
Furthermore, Snoop's critics want to cast him in the image that he is
the "stupid nigger" who keeps getting busted for the same shit, over
and over again, and never cleans up his act. To which our position is
that anyone with a set of balls who never compromises and consistently
portrays the same true image of himself in the face of criticism or
intimidation, keeps up his freedom of speech, his pursuit of happiness,
and his right to keep and bear arms inspires us all to be "stupid
niggers" when the alternative is to become the bitch of a meddlesome
smartass or government expert who is following us around trying to take
our rights, or our money, or our guns away.
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Flipside is a
member of the Rap Counter-Cointelpro Movement which was born out of a
conversation with Wise Intelligent of the Poor Righteous Teachers and
is also run by Brother Cedric Muhammad of the Nation of Islam.
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