Posted on 05/30/2012 8:19:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Were Tortured With Sesame Street
Guantanamo Bay prisoners were reportedly tortured with the sounds of children’s Sesame Street songs, in an attempt to get them to talk.
Al Jazeera reports that Thomas Keenan, a human rights researcher, explained that:
“Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”
Christopher Cerf, the award-winning composer of the songs used to torture prisoners at both Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, was shocked when Al Jazeera broke the news to him that his music was being exploited in such a way. He stated that:
“My first reaction was this just can’t possibly be true…Of course I didn’t really like the idea that I was helping break down prisoners, but it was much worse when I heard later that they were actually using the music in Guantanamo to actually do deep, long-term interrogations and obviously to inflict enough pain on prisoners so they would talk.”
The Huffington Post reports that other songs torturers have used on their victims have included Metallica’s ”Enter Sandman” and Drowning Pool’s “Bodies,” both of which were used in the same way as Sesame Street at Guantanamo Bay.
The Sesame Street, which includes about 200 songs, which are meant to help children learn reading and writing skills, is apparently very effective, considering this is not the first time it was reportedly used for torture. Al Jazeera reports that Cerf went on to say:
“This is fascinating to me both because of the horror of music being perverted to serve evil purposes if you like, but I’m also interested in how that’s done. What is it about music that would make it work for that purpose?”
Cerf, since learning about the powerful effect music seems to have in interrogation work, produced a film entitled “Songs Of War,” in which he embarks on a journey to learn what makes music so powerful. Al Jazeera reports that in the process, he spoke to soldiers, psychologists, and prisoners who were tortured using his music. He also discovered during his travels that the military has been using music as a potent torture weapon for hundreds of years.
All Hail the Great and Mighty Big Bird!
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All Hail the Great and Mighty Big Bird!
Oh, the Miss Piggy fantasies...what if the virgins were her sister?
All Hail the Great and Mighty Big Bird!
Oh, the Miss Piggy fantasies...what if the virgins were her sisters?
I doubt for days on end.
I doubt for days on end.
It could have been Barney!
Nancy Pelosi speeches would do it for me.
I agree. it’s wrong to use music like this. Just put the human garbage up against the wall and shoot them starting with the toes...then top of foot... then ankle... and upwards until they comply with requests for info.
That way the musicians can keep a clear conscience. It’s fair.
They no doubt take it up a notch with some Barney tunes if Big Bird and Miss Piggy can’t produce the desired results.
You know you love it.
Yes! Three cheers for BigBird! ( And we hear it was Miss Piggy singing sexy love songs that really break the islamoterroristas down )
Not sure why the link’s being stupid - I’m sure it’s Bush’s fault: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM89T74MPnE
Bow down before the wrath of.... The Muppets!
Ever taken your offspring to Disney World and listened to “It’s a Small World After All” for days on end?
In the Los Angeles radio market they have a commercial which includes the song 1-800-Cars For Kids that makes me want to kill. I would spill the beans after the first refrain.
If the UN Human Rights Commission declares Sesame Street music torture, then maybe we can finally shut down PBS.
But not quite as bad as the song that broke former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noreiga.
That’s what I keep threatening to do when they’re misbehaving!
Damnation to all! They must worship me instead of Big Bird!
I still bust a blood vessel when I hear a Cal Fresh (Food Stamp) Commercial during the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's bad enough that they advertise Welfare, but buying time with Taxpayer Money to an audience that detests the Entitlement Society is ludicrous.
Liberal songwriters?
Ever hear Joan Baez sing, “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”? That’s brutal.
All power comes from the stem of a lily pad...?
No no, from Miss Piggy’s ‘Hi Yah!’
I still bust a blood vessel when I hear a Cal Fresh (Food Stamp) Commercial during the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's bad enough that they advertise Welfare, but buying time with Taxpayer Money to an audience that detests the Entitlement Society is ludicrous.
They’re wearing Elmo outfits! Oh yeah!
Its a small world after all...not sesame St...but could work too.
Noooo! Please no more purple dinosaur! He haunts me in my dreams with the “I love you, you love me.” I can’t take any more. I’ll tell you everything I know!
I too clench teeth over that stupid jingle.
Sometimes they use Sesame Street.
Sometimes they use thrash metal.
When they really want to break ‘em down, they use...both:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCJfCP_ISM&feature=relmfu
I doubt for days on end.”
Funny but both of my grandkids listened to it for days on end and it never seemed to bother them.
Small World is one of my fav songs. My daughter first heard it at Disney World when she was three and we heard it for years thereafter. Now that she’s not here on earth anymore it remains one of my fav songs and I find myself humming it all the time. Very infectious tune.
“Ever hear Joan Baez sing, “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down”? That’s brutal.”
LOL. It is. Baez’s naive earnestness and picture-perfect diction. You can just see her imagining that the song had something to do with the proletariat, somehow.
A little like Linda Ronstadt’s version of “Allison.” She’s done some nice work—but it was a very wrong song for that artist.
File all the rough edges off a rough song and you get high comedy.
One man’s Sesame Street ditty is another man’s torture!
Not to mention that Baez got the lyrics wrong in several places.
Did they make them watch it while wearing women’s panties on their heads?
How about the Teletubbies? Has anyone heard of the Chinese Teletubby Torture Technique?
So, instead of being beaten with rubber hoses, they were bombarded with “Rubber Duckie.”
Or the agonizingly irritating nasal tones of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Imagine having to sit through that for hours at a time.
"The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance."
Muhammad also said:
(1) “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
(2) “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”
(3) “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”
(4) “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”
(5) “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” -- 'Umdat al-Salik r40.0
I especially like the "Fatwa?" issued by the former head Mad-Mullah of Iran, the Ayatollah, Rouhollah Mousavi Khomeini:
"“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious. ...
Let's see: No booze under Islam. No eating Pork under Islam. No music under Islam. No "fun" under Islam.
Gee, I can't imagine why anyone would NOT voulutarily want to convert?
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