"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country." Which undesirable is the department of immigration talking about now? Is it US Vice-President Dick Cheney?

No, the government gave him a visa already. He's been and gone. The police changed all the traffic rules in Sydney so he could drive on whatever side of the road he chose without stopping at any lights!

Is it US President George W. Bush? No, he's definitely got a visa for September. The government is giving everyone in Sydney a holiday for the day so we can all go and tell him what sort of bloke he is. We should definitely take them up on that!

No, the bloke Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is talking about, and who was refused entry, is from the US, like Dick and George.

He's worth at least a million US dollars, like Dick and George. He is a business man, like Dick and George. He probably has more supporters world-wide than Dick and George.

Was he coming to a conference analysing the government's peddling of racism and fear towards people who are Muslim? The Immigration Department we know doesn't like that kind of visitor.

No, he was coming to co-host MTV's Australian Music Video Awards night! He is a black rapper, a man with a mouth, Snoop Dogg!

But the cheeky bastard that we love was not fazed. Snoop Dogg sat on a yacht in Sydney Harbour and sent a video SMS "from a land down under" to the awards night.

Un-Australian idol Guy Sebastian bagged out Andrews and the Department on the show. Now there is a website-MTV Australia-where you can sign a petition to the government demanding that Snoop Dogg be given citizenship! Go people!

Rappers in the US are a target of high level surveillance by the FBI. We shouldn't be surprised when we see that Snoop Dogg's criminal record includes being caught with a gun and cocaine in a car.

In police departments like NYPD, officers are trailing rapper's vehicles and studying their lyrics-the Entertainment Task Force!

Check out the broadcaster, journalist and deejay, Davey D. Police harass individuals, performers, turn up at clubs and concerts and keep extensive files.

While police and FBI know details of these people's lives, they still haven't worked out who murdered rappers Tupac in 1996 and Notorious B.I.G. in 1997.

Biggie was even under FBI surveillance the night he was killed and still the police say they don't know who did it.

The attention paid by the FBI to black performers who connect with communities who are fighting for peace and justice is not new. The singer and actor Paul Robeson might have the record. He was watched 24/7 by the FBI for around 20 years.

Bob Marley attracted their attention and even the non-black John Lennon had a file that the FBI would not release for 25 years because it might jeopardise the national security of the US.

The file recorded that John had talked of his working class background and his sympathy with oppressed people in Britain and the world. It also recorded that he had been asked to finance a left-wing bookshop-and refused!

More recently, peace and love man Michael Franti has also had their attention.

Meanwhile back on the May streets, we turned out in our hundreds of thousands all over the world demanding the justice, the peace and the rights that the rappers rap and the singers sing. The men in uniform were there with rubber bullets and batons and tear gas, particularly in Los Angeles.

The targets were men and women with children who turned out as workers to demand acceptance in the US.

Now those people bashers are the kind of blokes we don't want in this country. The trouble is they are already in every country including this one!

But whatever they do we won't stop, and we won't stop. We will keep busting out, breaking in and rising up. See you on the streets!

Tanya McConvell