Thursday - December 11, 2008

EXTREME TORTURE OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS. AND IT IS TORTURE MAKE NO MISTAKE.

Must be a generational thing.  Music?  Gotta be joking. 
Tell ya what though.  If I had to listen to this crap I’d most likely break in two seconds.  Which is one second longer then I can take this misnamed junk.

Whatever .... seems another dumb thing that “artists” (artists?) can get up to.  Demand that their music noise not be used by our guys to break terrorists.  Screw em.  They aren’t real musicians anyway. Just damn lucky enough to be born and raised in a time when the young have disposable cash and they need no particular talent musically to make a great deal of money.  Which of course is the name of the game.  I accept that part.
But unfortunately these “artists” begin to believe that what they think or want matters.  They think they can tell the military how to conduct things, they want to advise governments on human rights and who knows what else.

They should stick to making noise and money.  Maybe use their income to take some lessons and learn how it’s done.

Bah! Dope Heads!

The Britney bludgeon, a weapon of torture: Pop stars tell the U.S. military to stop using their songs to ‘break’ terror suspects

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:22 AM on 11th December 2008

Torture: Britney Spears is on the list of artists whose songs are used to ‘break’ detainees in American military camps

In the hands of a teenager with a powerful set of speakers it is a lethal weapon.

Popular music played at extreme decibel levels will already have been judged torture by many a parent.

But a phenomenon that did no more harm than widen the generation gap has suddenly taken on more sinister overtones with reports that ear-splittingly loud music has been used as a ‘sonic bludgeon’ by the U.S. military against prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

Human rights groups are protesting that blasting tracks such as Britney Spears’s Baby One More Time and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. into cells at high volumes for hours on end can cause the inmates longterm psychiatric problems.

Now the musicians themselves have joined the fray, furious that their songs are being used to ‘break’ suspected terrorists.

Bristol-based band Massive Attack and Tom Morello, guitarist with U.S. 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 U.S. forces systematically playing loud music to hundreds of its detainees. Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the former U.S. military chief in Iraq, said the aim was ‘to create fear, disorient . . . and prolong capture shock’.

The new campaign is a joint venture between musicians and the human rights group Reprieve, which represents 30 inmates at Guantanamo. There are plans for minutes of silence during concerts and festivals to raise awareness of the issue.

One of the more unlikely protesters is Bob Singleton, whose song I Love You - sung by U.S. children’s television character Barney the Dinosaur - has been used to ‘torture’ detainees.

He said he was horrified that ‘a song designed to make little children feel safe and loved was somehow going to threaten the mental state of adults and drive them to the emotional breaking point’.

Mr. Singleton should wake the hell up and realize the ppl we’re up against would be very happy to, and in fact already have, murdered children all over the globe.  And 9/11 was only a part of what they do.  And they want more.  So up yours Mr. Singleton. 
Be interesting to see what his reaction and that of yet another “human rights” group would be if one of their own were caught up in a terrorist attack.

Schmuck!

FULL STORY HERE

Posted by peiper     on 12/11/2008 at 10:55 AM   
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