People assume we should be offended that somebody in the military thinks our song is annoying enough that played over and over it can psychologically break someone down. I take it as an honor to think that perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that.
An honor? The guy’s as mad as those who have heaped untold shame on our country with their use of torture, which according to experts, doesn’t work anyway. All interrogators will get is what the prisoners think their torturers want to hear.
Included on my list of those who think torture is a fine idea is Navy Cmdr. Pauline Storum, spokeswoman for Guantanamo's detention center, who wouldn't give details of when and how music has been used at the prison.
Widely reported are statements by FBI agents stationed at Gitmo is that there are repeated incidents where music was blasted at inmates and that “such tactics were common there."
The FBI agent stationed at Guantanamo Bay, who boasted in an FBI memo, that using this method he could "break" someone in four days by alternating 16 hours of music and lights with four hours of silence and darkness is also on my candidates’ list to be subjected to such treatment.
Blaring music, floods of water, extreme heat and cold, isolation, bodies frozen in one position for long periods of time, humiliation and other torture techniques should be suffered by anyone authorizing, condoning or participating in torture, and should be the sole inmates of the infamous prison after it’s shut down, confined there for an indeterminate period of time and receive the same treatment.
There isn’t a better use for the infamous facility.
Source: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11178225
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