Snoop Dogg Wins Case Against British Government

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John Gilhooley
Snoop Dogg at the Galaxy Concert Theatre, Santa Ana , Jan. 21
​Remember back in 2006 when Long Beach native Snoop Dogg and his entourage allegedly brawled at a British Airways VIP Lounge? And how the British Government went apeshit and banned the rapper from ever entering their boring old country? And how they portrayed him as the gangsta of, say, 1993, rather than the lovable spokesperson we know him as today?  

Well, this morning Huffington Post reports that  Snoop "successfully argued that any ban breached his human right to freedom of expression." 

Security camera footage showed the LBC's greatest rhyme slinger being repeatedly pushed by police while he tried to speak to children. Snoop didn't retaliate. But his boys--all 30 of them--did injure seven lawmen, who likely deserved whatever ass whooping they received. 

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So, Snoop has beat the British Government, which is great. Only problem, the rapper still probably won't be returning to jolly old England any time soon. 

"But all's well that end's well, right?" concludes the Huffington Post. "Despite winning the case Snoop has too many prior criminal convictions to be likely be successful in his plea for a tour Visa."

Well, at least Snoop made the British Government, which spent $150,000 of taxpayer money on the case, look like idiots.

The U.K.'s Daily Telegraph called the ruling an "embarrassing defeat."


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