Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers 210
The guy who wrote the Barney "I love you" song, and other musicians are banding together to protest the US military using their songs as weapons. The campaign has brought together groups including Massive Attack and musicians such as Tom Morello, who played with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. It will feature minutes of silence during concerts and festivals, said Chloe Davies of the British law group Reprieve, which represents dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees and is organizing the campaign.
Re:"Torture." Right. (Score:4, Informative)
Constant loud music wears people down phycologically. 16 hours mean that just about every waking hour is filled with this music. When they try to sleep, all there is is ringing.
Have you even heard of people who lost their hearing by shooting guns through the years without any kind of ear protection? A subset of this group end up killing themselves because they can't take the severe tinnitus ringing anymore.
Now come on. You may not think it's torture when idly thinking about it. But there must be SOME reason they are doing it.
Re:Miranda rights, asshole (Score:5, Informative)
Miranda rights are for people picked up by the police, in a non-war zone.
They do not apply to enemy military personnel, especially enemy personnel wh fail to uphold their Geneva Convention responsibilities to dress in military uniform and carry their weapons openly (so as not to cause problems in telling military and civilians apart) who are picked up either (a) in the act of sabotage or (b) on the battlefield itself.
Finally: spies have NO rights, even in the Geneva Conventions.
Live and learn. If you ever learn.
Re:There's no point to the whole thing (Score:2, Informative)
Except they weren't [amnesty.org.au]
Except you didn't [amnesty.org.uk]