I have just read an article of the use of loud music to torture people and it completely blew my mind away. I would have never thought of using music to drive a person crazy, but detainees at Guantanomo Bay could tell you differently. Bands such as Rage Against Machine and Eminem to children's themes songs of Sesame Street and Barney were used in the prison to drive a prisoners mind to insanity. The investigators would turn the music up to a deafening volume and play the song over and over in the dark while the prisoner would be tied up in a room. Talk about some modern warfare tactics. Musicians want to know if their music is being played in these torture tactics because all of them don't want to have any part of it. They don't want the music they created to be used as a way to drive a person mad. To me, it does sound inhumane to blast music into the ears of anyone for hours. One prisoner said he had to listen to the same Eminem song for twenty straight days and that he could hear people smashing their heads against the wall because they were going mad. Bands are getting organizations together to help stop the use of music as torture and some people in government are in support for it to cease. The use of music as torture began with the Bush Administration in 2003 and the current president Obama is pushing for this prison to be closed along with the torture.
LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3705755/Bands-complain-about-their-songs-being-used-in-torture.html
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