Gitmo Soundtrack

Here's the link to the Gitmo Soundtrack!
Now you can re-create a Gitmo torture session in the privacy of your own home!
Now your "Where were you last night" inquiries can be complemented with the piercing "I love You" from Barney the Dinosaur the same way America tortures Al Queda suspects!

Click here for the soundtrack!

That's right, Barney!

The song's composer, Bob Singleton, tells today's Guardian:

"I would rate the annoyance factor to be about equal with hearing my neighbour's leaf blower. It can set my teeth on edge, but it won't break me down and make me confess to crimes against humanity. Will Barney songs break your psyche? I think that idea turns music into something like voodoo, which it certainly isn't. If that were true, then the inverse would be true. Playing hymns to someone strapped to a chair would make them a Christian."

Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith reports the effect intentionally nauseating music had on Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib inmates.

Binyam Mohamed, the British resident still held in Guantánamo Bay, was rendered by the CIA to Morocco, where his torturers repeatedly took a razor blade to his penis.

Stafford Smith writes:

"When I later sat across from him in the cell, he described how psyops methods were worse than this. He could anticipate physical pain, he said, and know that it would eventually end. But the experience of slipping into madness as a result of torture by music was something quite different. 'Imagine you are given a choice,' he said. 'Lose your sight or lose your mind.'"

U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently:

» "Enter Sandman," Metallica.

» "Bodies," Drowning Pool.

» "Shoot to Thrill," AC/DC.

» "Hell's Bells," AC/DC.

» "I Love You," from the "Barney and Friends" children's TV show.

» "Born in the USA," Bruce Springsteen.

» "Babylon," David Gray.

» "White America," Eminem.

» "Sesame Street," theme song from the children's TV show.

Other bands and artists whose music has been frequently played at U.S. detention sites: Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Don McLean, Lil' Kim, Limp Bizkit, Meat Loaf, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tupac Shakur.

I really like the irony of Rage and the Meow Mix jingle being used as torture.