A bunch of artists are upset that the wonderful folks in the Bush administration are using their music to create fear and disorient prisoners. Music by rockers like AC/DC and Queen are regularly employed by military personnel in detention centers as a torture weapon. Some prisoners confessed that the music drives them so crazy they feel like committing suicide. I don’t blame them. I, too, would rather die than listen to Britney Spears non-stop on full blast.
The prisoners aren’t the only ones complaining though:
Musicians are banding together to demand the U.S. military stop using their songs as weapons. A campaign being launched Wednesday has brought together groups including Massive Attack and musicians such as Tom Morello, who played with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave and is now on a solo tour. It will feature minutes of silence during concerts and festivals, said Chloe Davies of the British law group Reprieve, which represents dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees and is organizing the campaign.
Says Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails):
“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.”
I have one question: How come they don’t torture prisoners with hip-hop music? You would think that with all the talk about hip-hop being vile and offensive it would be their No.1 option for auditory assault. But if they ever run out of fear-inducing rock albums in Gitmo, I humbly recommend the entire Gravediggaz catalog.
Source: MSN
