Sleep deprevation, forced-stripping, dog-terror, water-boarding, stress-positions. Each of these terms represents a tactic that has been employed by the US military or CIA in prisons in Iraq, Guantanomo Bay and elsewhere. They are tactics that had originally been labelled as “no-touch interrogation methods” employed by the United States government.

Largely because of the so-called war on terror, many of these terms have entered the mainstream vernacular. A series of George Bush-era memos released in April of this year once again drew these tactics into mainstream discussion.

Music is one of the less-discussed interrogation tools employed by the U.S. under George Bush. A playlist of music that has been used as torture follows this posting. The playlist contains tracks by Rage Against the Machine, AC/DC, Metallica, David Gray, and Bruce Springsteen. The playlist also includes the Sesame Street Theme Song, and Barney The Dinosaur’s song I Love You, You love me.

Music as Torture: Detainee 200343 is a special one hour-long broadcast of CJSW News. The piece is in recognition of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

Full Audio of Broadcast:
[podcast]http://www.cjsw.com/podcasts/news/Music_as_Torture.mp3[/podcast]

Playlist of songs known to be used as torture:

• AC/DC – Hells Bells, Shoot to Thrill
• Aerosmith
• Barney the Purple Dinosaur Theme
• Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
• Britney Spears
• Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
• Christina Aguilera – Dirrty
• David Gray – Babylon
• Deicede – Fuck Your God
• Don McLean – American Pie
• Dope – Die MF Die, Take Your Best Shot
• Dr. Dre
• Drowning Pools – Bodies
• Eminem – Kim, Slim Shady, White America
• Li’l Kim
• Limp Bizkit
• Matchbox Twenty – Gold
• Meat Loaf
• Metallica – Enter Sandman
• Neil Diamond – America
• Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs, Mr. Self-Destruct
• Prince – Raspberry Beret
• Queen – We Are The Champions
• Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name Of
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Saliva – Click Click Boom
• Sesame Street Theme
• Tupac – All Eyes on Me

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