Rocking Guantanamo
Life imitates and irritates art as leading musicians join a Freedom of Information suit to discover how loud rock was used as an instrument of torture against Guantanamo detainees.
Members of REM, Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails want to know details of when and how their work was employed to break down terror suspects, although the CIA insists that the sounds were “not for punitive purposes–and at levels far below a live rock band.”
Not so, says a Human Rights group’s report, which insists one suspect was grilled while being “exposed to variable lighting patterns” and repeated playing of a song called “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” by the band Drowning Pool.
If the CIA interrogators were using the music this way, they may very well have been inspired by a Woody Allen character…
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Hmm, it was copyright infringement if it was used for “entertainment purposes,” which clearly it was.
“Copyright Enfringement”?
So, I can listen to REM at work, in my car, or while using the restroom or cleaning toilets…..But I can't listen to it while I'm torturing terrorists? Didn't know rock bands had that kind of control of their CDs after they've been purchased.
How ya been, Green? Long time no type.