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Do you support Music Torture?

Posted by Sangita on 27 December, 2008

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Do you support Music Torture? Reprieve, a British human rights law group that represents over 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees, is planning to work with musicians to lobby President-elect Barack Obama to end the practice of sonic torture by military interrogators.

Earlier this month, Reprieve and the UK 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 Sesame Street and Barney to break the will of prisoners.

This has musicians furious. Last week, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails even suggested he might pursue legal action to stop the practice.

Is it not a paradox that the rockers are against music torture? Some people find the rock shows and rock albums as torturous itself and so by protesting against music torture the musicians are actually protesting against rock music!

I personally believe that music torture is more superior to other torture methods which are corporal in nature but I have reservations against sonic torture. Music is not necessarily a sonic boom, there is no melody in the thunder of jet but you can find divine melody even in the hardest of rocks.

So, I am against sonic torture but will support music torture if at all the regime of torture is to be continued. Now after Bush, Obama has to take a call. At least music torture can be embraced by our country and police should switch to the music torture method from the present third degree which is heavily practiced all over India and patronized by politicians.

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derebail2009 wrote on 27 December, 2008

oKIES DEAR, music makes you happy i suppose, if see the film History of the world, how music evolved it is rib tickling watch it and enjoy

Horrified_Harihar wrote on 27 December, 2008

Bollocks!! If you are a music lover then lock your door and torture yourself to your heart's content, how this question of supporting music torture is arising? Once of the most stupid blog I have read in Admanya!

talk2ankanjim wrote on 28 December, 2008

Any kind of touture is torture. Torture doesn't have good or bad elements. Music is something which has melody, rythm n harmony which r quite heavenly. Music can trigger ones feelings and emotions and take her/him to a place where she/he wants 2 go. Is has also become part of a healing peocess. That's we know as music therapy. But it can be torture if a perticular piece of music is being played over n over when someone's not ready to listen to.

cosmicbomber wrote on 30 December, 2008

Utter nonsensical question! You are insulting one of the greatest singer of our times by associating her with torture which is a crime against God and men.