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| Pearl Jam, NIN Furious at Gitmo's Use | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 23 2009, 03:55 AM (58 Views) | |
| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Oct 23 2009, 03:55 AM Post #1 |
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Pearl Jam, NIN furious at Guantanamo use A group of top US bands including Rage Against The Machine, REM and Pearl Jam have expressed outrage that their music was being blasted at Guantanamo detainees as part of "terror" interrogations. They said they are filing a lawsuit in a bid to declassify documents on the use of the music and joining the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which was launched by former US military generals and lawmakers hoping to shut the prison at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The musicians launched "a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at the prison and other facilities and announced they were supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret Government records pertaining to how music was utilised as an interrogation device," a statement said. The musicians include Trent Reznor and Tom Morello, whose music with the bands Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine have already been linked to interrogations at the prison, according to previously released government records. "Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured - from waterboarding to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts; playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums," said Morello. "Guantanamo may be Dick Cheney's idea of America, but it's not mine. "The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me," he added. Retired general Robert Gard says he sympathises with the musicians "whose music was used without their knowledge as part of the Bush administration's misguided policies." A 2004 Defence Department report cited by the musicians detailed an interrogation method known as the "futility" technique, which included playing the music of Metallica and Britney Spears to detainees. President Barack Obama vowed on his second day in office to shut the facility - a magnet for global criticism of US tactics in the Bush administration's "war on terror" - by January 22, though White House aides say they face an uphill fight to keep that promise. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/23/2722148.htm?section=justin Fantastic! |
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| gingerwitch28 | Oct 23 2009, 06:06 AM Post #2 |
twenty-first century ennui
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Britney Spears  But really, good on them. I used to be a pretty big NIN and Rage fan when I was younger (not so much anymore) but this sort of stuff is awesome to hear. It's pretty ironic when you think about the kind of stuff that Rage in particular have recorded, very political and very anti-authoritarian. |
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