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The CIA reportedly used Red Hot Chili Peppers music to torture prisoners in Guantánamo Bay.
US officials speaking anonymously to Al Jazeera confirmed details techniques used by the CIA during the George Bush administration following the declassification process for the report on its own "enhanced interrogation" procedures used after September 11. Among the techniques used to torture those suspected of being terrorists was exposure to the Californian band on repeat.
One specific segment of the Senate Intelligence Committee report states that a suspect, named as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah, was subjected to the technique at a black site prison out of Guantánamo Bay between May and July in 2002.
The report also reveals the fact that Abu Zubaydah was stuffed into a pet crate and was shackled by his wrists to the ceiling of his cell as well as being subjected to an endless loop of loud music.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/red-hot-chili-peppers/76639
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I'm kind of offended, who doesn't like the Chili Peppers? Actual torture would be dubstep "music".
n2doc
(47,953 posts)becomes torture eventually. And these prisoners are from a different culture.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)now that song is stuck in my head. :sigh:
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It was in the news lately--50th anniversary, I think. I couldn't WAIT 'til that news cycle was over!
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)City of Angels
And I've always considered listening to it to be torture.
YMMV
Alittleliberal
(528 posts)and it is a fucking masterpiece.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)So who are the criminals again?
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)others' music as torture.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)The past few posts on this blog have looked at how music and sound has been used to wreak violence on people. This post looks specifically at how music is used to torture people.
Music as a form of torture? This is very far away from what most of us believe about music and its role in our society. Suzanne Cusick is a key thinker and writer on this topic. Here is a link to an in-depth interview with her. In one of her articles, Cusick states:
It would be possible to assume from the evidence in the popular press that the use of music in interrogation is (as one of the sources for the 2003 BBC story, claimed) rather new. Im sorry to report that my reading suggests otherwise; nor is it the random, rogue behavior of particularly sadistic (or musical, or creative) interrogators and MPs. Rather, it is one component of a standard set of interrogation practices developed by the CIA (in cooperation with English and Canadian intelligence agencies) over the second half of the 20th centurya standard set of practices that includes the hooding, stress positions, and sexual/cultural humiliation that the photos leaked from Abu Ghraib prison enabled us to see. Its advocates call this set of practices no touch torture.
http://thenoisecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/music-and-torture/
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)If not, RHCP should follow the Skinny Puppy example.
Although, if it becomes accepted that they have to pay for the music, it'll become another Wingnut Welfare cash cow of "patriotic" bands that use flag-waving to hide their absence of talent.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)The music has to be played as a public performance to generate any royalty fees.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)...here in ol' Gitmo...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)get us away, yo!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)"Additional lyrics by KamaAina. (C) 2014. All rights reserved."
hack89
(39,171 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)I can't fathom listening to them on repeat.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Most of their stuff I find about as listenable as a jackhammer.