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| Guantanamo prisoners tortured by Britney Spears, AC/DC | |
| 2008-12-12 | |
BRITNEY Spears and AC/DC songs are being used to torture prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, outraging human rights groups. The groups are protesting that blasting tracks such as Britney Spears's Baby One More Time, AC/DC's Hells Bells and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA into cells at high volumes for hours on end can cause the inmates long-term psychiatric problems.
Musicians including Massive Attack and Tom Morello, guitarist with US group Rage Against The Machine have joined a campaign against the practice. According to an FBI memo, one interrogator at Guantanamo bragged that he needed only four days to "break" someone by alternating 16 hours of loud music with just four hours of silence. The practice has been used often in the "war on terror", with US forces systematically playing loud music to hundreds of its detainees. Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the former US military chief in Iraq, said the aim was "to create fear, disorient . . . and prolong capture shock". | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #23 If you need to break the most hardened terrorist, use this. |
| Posted by: Globfek Trafulax 2008-12-12 22:06 |
| #22 Do words have no meaning anymore? Yes and no. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-12 19:06 |
| #21 Hit 'em with a solid 24 hours of Philip Glass. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-12-12 18:03 |
| #20 heh |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-12-12 16:23 |
| #19 Do words have no meaning anymore? If someone really is being tortured somewhere what word shall we now use to describe it. The word 'torture' means nothing now thanks to the MSM. Bush = Hitler. If someone like Hitler were to rise again, how shall we describe him? Words like 'tyrant' mean nothing any more. What does 'human rights violations' mean now? Not being allowed to shop at the Gap? |
| Posted by: Chemist 2008-12-12 15:43 |
| #18 I like music loud, if it had alot of static then that would be torture. Hey Bad, I love Zappa. Do they use music videos? |
| Posted by: Jan from work 2008-12-12 14:57 |
| #17 ...Of course, if they played any Yoko Ono, that would be crossing a line. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-12-12 13:57 |
| #16 Barry Manilow would be cruel. Oh, and those crybaby, liberal "musicians" can go fucking live in Saudi and see how long their crap is tolerated. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-12-12 12:52 |
| #15 Yanni. John Tesh. Kenny G. Or better (worse) yet, play the soundtrack from Rent. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-12-12 12:04 |
| #14 Things could have been worse. We could have played Paris Hilton's CD for hours. That would break them for sure! |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-12-12 11:26 |
| #13 Pikers. There's got to be CDs of 'Puberty Love' out there somewhere. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-12-12 10:53 |
| #12 They're right, go back to waterboarding them, its much quieter, just a few gurgling sounds. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-12-12 10:04 |
| #11 ... can cause the inmates long-term psychiatric problems. You know if the lawyers can make this stick, parents across America will be keeping tort lawyers busy for generations suing labels and artists. See! We have legal precedent! It'll end up like the cigarette |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-12-12 08:33 |
| #10 We could also use the best records of -David Horowitz -Yehudi Menuhin -Vladimir Ashkhenazi -Shlomo Mintz -Itzhak Perlman and so on Of course they know what they hear. :-) |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-12-12 08:27 |
| #9 I can imagine Britney as Ilsa... If you need to ask what that means, then you would be happier not knowing. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-12 08:00 |
| #8 They use the Mothers of Invention? |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-12-12 07:59 |
| #7 "Today, we will play the deluxe boxed set of the collected works of Zamfir, master of the Pan Flute. We'll work backwards in the discography, starting with Disk 42: 'Zamfir plays Hip Hop' " |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-12 06:33 |
| #6 Other ideas: -Hassidic rock and roll biggest hits -Obama's complete speeches (translated in Pahsto and Arabic of course). |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-12-12 05:52 |
| #5 Good thing they didn't understand the words or their heads would have exploded. Oh, and "Givin' the dog a bone!" Yahhh! |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-12-12 01:50 |
| #4 Try living in the US. You are tortured by them daily. Oh, and screw islam by the way. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-12-12 01:43 |
| #3 They also used tunes like Barney and the Meow Mix song. One of the radio stations here had a bit with Barney singing AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill. Imagine Barney singing "Too many women, with too many pills." |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-12-12 01:10 |
| #2 AC/DC fuggin' ROCK d00d! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-12-12 00:50 |
| #1 can cause the inmates long-term psychiatric problems. How could they tell the difference? Humph. The weenies should try hanging around any dorm or barracks on a busy night. Hearing loss and brain damage. I used to play gregorian chant on saturday nights when the stereo wars got going good. It would repel like nothing else, and I personaly found it soothing. |
| Posted by: N guard 2008-12-12 00:24 |