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- IRAcarbombs, on 12/12/2008, -18/+323Bet if they played Celine Dion they would make them talk ....
- jfdolier, on 12/12/2008, -12/+288I'm pretty sure the Jonas Brothers were ruled unconstitutional...
- jordan314, on 12/12/2008, -11/+223What the ***** is wrong with people? It's a funny concept but horrible that it's actually being done on people.
FTA:
Ruhal Ahmed, a Briton who was captured in Afghanistan, describes excruciating sessions at Guantanamo Bay. He said his hands were shackled to his feet, which were shackled to the floor, forcing him into a painful squat for periods of up to two days.
“You’re in agony,” Ahmed, who was released without charge in 2004, told Reprieve. He said the agony was compounded when music was introduced, because “before you could actually concentrate on something else, try to make yourself focus on some other things in your life that you did before and take that pain away.
“It makes you feel like you are going mad,” he said.
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I can't imagine what that would be like. Why do we make people want to die like this, guilty or not? - jggube, on 12/12/2008, -11/+215Here's my recommended play list (set on auto-repeat):
1. Numa Numa song
2. The Meow Mix jingle
3. Macarena
I don't see anyone who wouldn't eventually break down and give up all their associates with that going 24/7. :) - jfdolier, on 12/12/2008, -9/+181This reminds me of the time my buddy went 24 hours in his dorm room with the Hamster Dance on for $100. Money well spent.
- inactive, on 12/12/2008, -19/+148Let's stop with the ***** quips about how funny torture is and your suggestions on what band sucks more. Let's use the internet for good and figure a way to END this *****.
- mattyboy555, on 12/12/2008, -21/+133dugg for NIN.
- MarrowMan, on 12/12/2008, -14/+89Playing NIN all day would Pump me up to the point where I'd kill all those ***** with my bare hands.
- Rutje, on 12/12/2008, -6/+80Statistical survey revealed that 85% of all Guantanamo prisoners preferred waterboarding over Celine Dion for torture....
- iEnigma, on 12/12/2008, -30/+95AC/DC, Queen, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails... doesn't seem like torture to me.
- DemDude, on 12/12/2008, -0/+63Still in the mental institution?
- aladrin, on 12/12/2008, -6/+64So basically, the government can do whatever they want with music, but the common man can't? ***** *****. Either copyright laws apply or they don't.
If the artist refuses to license his work for use in torture, then that's that. It's not like it would be hard for the US Government to commission some truly horrid music and be totally legal... At least on the copyright side.
Of course, this isn't even addressing the torture concerns. - DeadSkinMask, on 12/12/2008, -4/+60As a Canadian, I don't feel any apology is in order.
After all, you Yanks gave us the likes of Britney, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizket, Creed, Kanye, Michael Bolton, Kenny G...etc...
You have More than gotten us back over the years. - Phalanxia, on 12/12/2008, -3/+55MJ was cool before he went white.
- Sublex, on 12/12/2008, -8/+60...Miley Cyrus?
- fremeer, on 12/12/2008, -4/+56the other 15% were canadian.
- urineboy, on 12/12/2008, -10/+52Torture is what Merzbow was meant for.
- kevisazombie, on 12/12/2008, -5/+46Internet tough guy alert!
- jessehadden, on 12/12/2008, -13/+53I started out reading this, thinking, that's really awesome of musicians...
...from the time I was half-way through, all the way to the end, all I could think about was how ashamed I am to be American. I am disgusted. - SpacePoet, on 12/12/2008, -2/+38Yeah! I think we should hold a convention and discuss why torture should be a crime against humanity and make laws that hold leaders responsible for torture of any kind. We could hold it in Geneva or someplace...
- overt, on 12/12/2008, -5/+40What's wrong with MJ? Well, his music anyway.
- LaurencePike, on 12/12/2008, -7/+41The same song, blasting over and over... hours on end, plus the fact these guys arn't 'reclining on their beds chillin' out'.. They are in Guantanamo Bay.. Do you have any idea what it would be like for them just to acknowledge that thought, let alone the squalid living conditions and mental torture... It is simply disgusting that a place designed to cause so much damage to our fellow human beings exists. It is a place that should be leveled.
Thanks for having a heart 3xx6, maybe we can't do much about it now, but at least we don't resort to quick jokes about something so vile. - Nogusta, on 12/12/2008, -3/+37How many times must we apologize? Ok Ok... one more time...
On behalf of all Canadians we are sorry about inflicting Celine Dion on the world. - crazzy88ss, on 12/12/2008, -1/+32man that's only $4.16 an hour... screw that!
- idreamxyz, on 12/12/2008, -25/+54Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion,............... etc would be better..... instead of insulting those great hard rock and heavy metal bands... Thats BS!
- Bangaarang, on 12/12/2008, -2/+30I feel exactly the same way, at first I was thinking of the musicians but by page 2 I was like "wow I can't believe we (Americans) are treating innocent people like this" and the fact that this is still going on for over 7 years now is unbelievable.
- zeblith, on 12/12/2008, -6/+31Reading your stupid responses is torture.
- Beautyon, on 12/12/2008, -3/+27On the Channel 4 documentary on torture:
http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/T/torture/
The Oxford graduate who was initially for torture was finally broken by being forced to listen to Throbbing Gristle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ
He not only broke down, but turned 180deg and was absolutely AGAINST torture after his experience. - nkleffman, on 12/12/2008, -2/+25I'm tired of all these FAKE AMERICANS endorsing TORTURE.
There is nothing more UN-AMERICAN then to support an agressive war in a foreign land, the supsension of unalienable rights, and the endorsement of torture.
Being American doesn't mean you follow whatever the government says right or wrong. "It is the duty of the PATRIOT to protect his COUNTRY from his GOVERNMENT".
America isn't great because of our geography or because we have a pretty flag, it's because it was the first country that was founded on an idea rather than force - that idea being that all men have RIGHTS not because the government grants privledges, but because they have rights from their creator; and the sole object of government is to protect those rights. We are supposed to be a REPUBLIC, not a ***** EMPIRE.
If you haven't read Common Sense, the Federalist Papers, and the Anti-Federalist Papers; if you haven't studied the philosophy of the founding fathers - and yet you sit there holier-than-thou and call others un-american because FOX told you they were bad - then you have no business in this country. You're not an American, sure you may live here, but in reality you're a Tory ready to lick the boots of the red coats. Well get your tounge ready, you'll have a lot of licking to do; because all of this torture that you support is going to come right back here and be used on YOU. It's how the world works, get ready. - fuzzymuzzy, on 12/12/2008, -12/+35The internet... serious business
- inactive, on 12/12/2008, -3/+26The ballad of bilbo baggins by nemoy over and over and over again
- xMothmanx, on 12/12/2008, -4/+26We still haven't forgiven you for Bryan Adams.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+22I was amused to find that a good chunk of my workout playlist constitutes as "torture".... Maybe that's why I hate the treadmill so much ;)
- Devihed, on 12/12/2008, -1/+22Queen - Having a good time would be ironic
- Gatesophile, on 12/12/2008, -2/+23Absolutely disgusting. Trent Reznor commented on this on http://nin.com yesterday.
Also, to all those saying that listening to NIN all day would be awesome, they are NOT just listening to it, it's being BLASTED at them for HOURS. That would make even the most hardcore NIN fan hate it. - Snoosy, on 12/12/2008, -0/+20NIN - March of the Pigs in particular.
- oda1, on 12/12/2008, -5/+25At first thought, I'd say that I'm okay with doing that to guilty people to get intel -- but that's just the type of mentality that gets innocent people in horrific situations.
Srsly, why can't we all just get a long? - LilStinker, on 12/12/2008, -2/+22a long what?
- DemDude, on 12/12/2008, -1/+20They'd either break...
...or become absolutely fabulous dancers! - inactive, on 12/12/2008, -1/+19Days even. My dad told me that this was happening in secret prisons when I was a child in high-school. It was hard to believe until it came out publicly and the Government STILL defends it. People still don't understand why we are under the threat of attack. If a distant country overtook Australia forcefully, bombed my town and killed my sister, my father, my mother. Took my brother to a prison somewhere and tortured him. What do you think I would be planning to do? Sitting on my ass and thanking this country for showing me the way?
- eredeath, on 12/12/2008, -4/+22He would admit to raping his own mother if his captures told him to, just to stop the pain. Torture is ineffective. It is a way for a corrupt group to get the answers they want to hear and present it as truth because of the source from which it came.
- Bangaarang, on 12/12/2008, -1/+18If you want metal the I recommend the most brutal heavy metal band on earth, Deathklok.
- AtomicDog1471, on 12/12/2008, -2/+19Sure you would...
- andre321, on 12/12/2008, -2/+19meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow!
- tokabowla, on 12/12/2008, -2/+19Yeah, no. I do that to myself almost every day!
- daPhoenix, on 12/12/2008, -3/+19Weak troll. Try again.
- MRintheKeys, on 12/12/2008, -0/+16Guantanemo couldn't afford the royalties.
- bassman730, on 12/12/2008, -2/+17Here's Reznor's response to this news(http://www.nin.com/) :
Regarding NIN music used at Guantanamo Bay for torture
It's difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging than discovering music you've put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture.
If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities.
Thank GOD this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration's reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us.
Trent Reznor - PeppermintEgo, on 12/12/2008, -9/+24I'm pretty sure if you blast Britney Spears or American Idol music it will torture them even more.
- cheeseplease, on 12/12/2008, -1/+16Michael Jackson was an incredibly talented musician and entertainer. The backstreet boys were formed to extract money from 14 year old girls, in which they succeeded glamorously.
Celine Dion, now she sucks ass. -
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