"I love you... you love me...."
Posted on 10/22/2009 2:27:02 PM PDT by Starman417
And the winner for most torturous sounds to a jihadi's ears is.....
Was the theme to "Sesame Street" really played to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo and other detention camps? What about Don McLean's "American Pie"? Or the Meow Mix jingle? Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."?A high-profile coalition of artists -- including the members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and the Roots -- demanded Thursday that the government release the names of all the songs that were blasted since 2002 at prisoners for hours, even days, on end, to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.
Dozens of musicians endorsed a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute, seeking the declassification of all records related to the use of music in interrogation practices. The artists also launched a formal protest of the use of music in conjunction with torture.
"I think every musician should be involved," said Rosanne Cash in a telephone interview Wednesday. "It seems so obvious. Music should never be used as torture." The singer-songwriter (and daughter of Johnny Cash) said she reacted with "absolute disgust" when she heard of the practice. "It's beyond the pale. It's hard to even think about."
Other musicians, including Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello, formerly of the band Rage Against the Machine, also expressed outrage.
"The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me," Morello said in a statement. "We need to end torture and close Guantanamo now."
I agree Morello's music is sickening. But do these moralizers understand what real torture is? And that Guantanamo today is the world's most humane detention facility, thanks in no small part to their efforts in making it the most heavily scrutinized?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
"Mine is more hideously painful to listen to than yours." "No, mine is." "No, mine."
So basically these artists are admitting that listening to their music is torture.
Well, at least they admit that the s#it they produce is literally torture to listen to/s;)
“The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” Morello said in a statement.”
LOL! They just don’t like the idea that their music is considered torture. Do they really want this information made public?
The Oscar is a statue of a person, the Grammy is a gramophone. What should the Gitty award be? A section of gold plated chain link fence? A pair of ear muffs?
One gold-plated [flanged] ear-plug.
They need to get with my neighbors on this. I’m pretty sure having to listen to loud rap is torture.
I nominate Debby Boone, “You light up my life”.
They should have used the Jeopardy Show theme . . . by itself.
"I love you... you love me...."
“I love you... you love me....”
LOL!
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