Rockers to Press Obama on Music Torture

[The Master]

U.K. human rights law group Reprieve -- which represents over 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees -- is planning to work with musicians to lobby President-elect Barack Obama over the practice of sonic torture by military interrogators.

Earlier this month, Reprieve and the U.K. Musicians Union launched Zero dB, a "silent protest" over the use of music in interrogations. According to Reprieve, many of its clients have been subjected to hours of music played at deafening volume -- sometime for days or even weeks on end. And the BBC has reported on a particularly insidious practice: using the theme songs from theme songs to Sesame Street and Barney to break the will of prisoners.

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[The Master]

This is funny too. Man can we just stretch and complain about everything.

I am sure that Obama will push something through congress to ban the use of Kids music or music in general as torture.

[Myles]

lmao watching my nephew and having to listen to the theme song to barney a million times, I feel their pain some what... But yea Obama will be anti torture on this issue.

[Bama]

I saw an article the other day that talked about using heavy metal to torture prisoners at Gitmo. I'm not sure what they are complaining about though, that just sounds like a good time to me. haha

[BlackStone]

i'm sorry, but that isn't torture.

[Joker Relentless]

Children's theme songs over and over again is extreme torture. I have suffered it myself. Lol!