Since then, music played at unbearable volumes has been frequently deployed in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere by the CIA, as part of a sophisticated portfolio of torture against detainees.
Now the music world is hitting back. A collective of bands and artists, including some whose recordings have been used against their wishes, have come together to demand the US stops using their work as an instrument of war.
So, what’s on the playlist at Gitmo?The styles of music used range from heavy metal to pop. According to the British legal charity Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently: Enter Sandman Metallica, Bodies Drowning Pool, Shoot to Thrill and Hells Bells AC/DC, I Love You from the Barney & Friends children's television show. Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen.
(emphasis ours)
We can’t get too worked up in a lather over waterboarding but… Nine Inch Nails at 110 dBs 20 hours a day? Dude.
Monday, December 15, 2008
They ought to know
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A little bit of trivia: in Jimmy Cagney's last starring role, the movie "One, Two, Three" (1961) there is a scene where the character Otto (Horst Buchholz), suspected of being a spy, is being tortured by East German police playing the song, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", to him over and over again. Could the CIA have added this to their repertoire? "Ve haff vays to make you talk!"
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