Sledge Hammer To The Face

Released Guantanamo Bay detainees have raised a legal suit against the US government (big surprise). The interesting thing is not reason (torture) or necessarily the technique (music), the interesting thing is that the bands have found out specifically that their music was used in this heinous manner.

A few notable groups/artists (mentioned in this video) are Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor), Rage Against the Machine (Tom Morello), and Eminem. I personally love their music so it saddens me to see it abused like this…although, if you asked my parents, they would say I did the same thing to them as a teenager…

I still don’t understand why Bush isn’t in jail?  I don’t think there has been any one for a very long time that has been responsible for so much horror.

In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.

The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of “combined” interrogation techniques — using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time — on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.

Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects — whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.

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Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.