Posted on 09/21/2013 11:22:24 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Songs by the Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias were used "to inflict psychological and physical damage" on prisoners detained during the military dictatorship of Chile's Augusto Pinochet.
Dr Katia Chornik, a researcher at Manchester University, has looked into how the military dictator employed songs by Spain's most internationally celebrated singer as part of a "torture soundtrack".
Other songs by former Beatle George Harrison, Italian pop artist Gigi l'Amoroso and the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange were played over and over again at high volume in the countless torture houses and concentration camps of Chile's dictatorship years.
"Pinochet's system used music to indoctrinate detainees, as a form of punishment and a soundtrack to torture," Chornick told the Daily Telegraph.
"Played at intensely high volumes for days on end, the otherwise popular songs were used to inflict psychological and physical damage."
Over and over again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsrKDSKzWg
Had this not worked, they would have resorted to the Time-Life Disco Collection.
Or the Lee Roy Neiman Paintings.
Bee Gees? (Crank the treble)
Expect to see a daily “right wing devil” story until at least the mid-term elections.
Pinochet stepped down when he felt the threat of communism had passed, and allowed elections. The subsequent attempts to prosecute him despite the immunity arrangements should serve as a warning for similar heroes who save their countries from the Red Terror. When he initially stepped down he was hailed for modernizing Chile’s economy (especially in contrast to the quagmires caused by left-wing South American governments); there were enough Americans back then who could appreciate his aid in containing communism in the “southern cone” of South America. Margaret Thatcher fondly remembered him at the time of his death; he helped in the Falklands War by tying down Argentina’s best units along the Chilean border (leaving raw recruits to face the British).
In one generation the good he did will be removed from the public consciousness; do your part to pass on the legacies of those allies of ours during the Cold War who were sunsequently demonized by the leftist government/media cabal in the US (Franco, Galtieri, Central American and Southeast Asian military governments). Today our young people wear T-shirts featuring Che “I’m too important to kill” Guevarra because they have no idea of the evil and murder the left spread in the days of yore...
This “song” makes me look for a loaded gun to put to my head or a tall roof to jump off of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reCkoM9EQYU
It gave me Tourette’s.
I bet Mauro likes it.
I plan on using Prince’s “When the Doves Cry”; nobody can sit through that for long...
On “Married With Children”, Griff was initiated into NO’MAAM by being locked in a room and forced to watch a tape of a special two hour episode of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” It nearly broke him.
Well at least he honored the Geneva Convention and did not use Slim Whitman music.
Thank you, Pinochet was a hero and great man who saved his country.
You're dissing the guy that saved us all from the Martians?
I’m tortured just seeing the name Julio Iglesias.
Zygi played guitar...
Hey, get out of my kingdom - and return my torture playbook on your way out.
The Cherry song from the Animal House...
And his no-talent son.
I’m convinced there is not a man (or woman) alive who could listen to “The Very Best of Meatloaf” three times in succession at full volume without a total breakdown.
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