America Using Music to Torture
You'd think this wouldn't happen in late 2009

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A group of top US acts including REM and Pearl Jam on Thursday expressed outrage that loud music was being blasted 
at helpless Gitmo detainees as part of "terror" interrogations.  They said they were filing a lawsuit in a bid to declassify 
documents on the use of the music, and joining the "National Campaign to Close Guantanamo." 

"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.

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Music in Gitmo torture strikes angry chord

Artists demand that the feds release names of tunes used

By JOE HEIM
WASHINGTON POST

Oct. 23, 2009, 8:43AM

WASHINGTON — Was the theme to Sesame Street really played to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo and other detention camps? What about Don McLean's American Pie? Or the Meow Mix jingle? Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.?

A high-profile coalition of artists — including the members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and the Roots — demanded Thursday that the government release the names of all the songs that were blasted since 2002 at prisoners for hours, even days, on end, to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.

Dozens of musicians endorsed a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute, seeking the declassification of all records related to the use of music in interrogation practices. The artists also launched a formal protest of the use of music in conjunction with torture.

“I think every musician should be involved,” Rosanne Cash said Wednesday. “It seems so obvious. Music should never be used as torture.” The singer-songwriter who is the daughter of Johnny Cash said she reacted with “absolute disgust” when she heard of the practice.

Other musicians, including Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello, formerly of the band Rage Against the Machine, also expressed outrage.

“The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” Morello said in a statement. “We need to end torture and close Guantanamo now.”

The musicians' announcement was coordinated with the recent call by veterans and retired Army generals to shut Guantanamo. It is part of a renewed effort to pressure President Barack Obama to keep his promise to close the prison in Cuba in his first year in office. Television and radio spots focused on the issue also launched this week by the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo.

A White House spokesman said music is no longer used as an instrument of torture.

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