Bow Down Before the One You Serve

In alarming news today, the government has reportedly been using a variety of music to torture prisoners, from my personal favorites of Nine Inch Nails and Sesame Street to Pantera, which would make me go insane almost immediately. According to the MSNBC post:

The tactic has been common in the U.S. war on terror, with forces systematically using loud music on hundreds of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, then the U.S. military commander in Iraq, authorized it on Sept. 14, 2003, 'to create fear, disorient ... and prolong capture shock.'

According to an FBI memo, one interrogator at Guantanamo Bay bragged he needed only four days to “break” someone by alternating 16 hours of music and lights with four hours of silence and darkness.

Excellent.

But while some musicians, like Lars and company from Metallica fight illegal downloads, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Tom Morello, and Massive Attack, are working to get this practice stopped.