Reply With QuoteNot a lot of westerners realise that:
Mahna mahna (ba dee bedeba) mahna mahna (ba debe dee)
is Arabic for
Terrorism is bad (so stop it, OK?) terrorism is bad (so stop it!)
he's seriously bad to the bone.
Torture By Sesame Street At Guantanamo Bay: Al Jazeera Reports (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Clare Richardson
Posted: 05/30/2012 6:06 pm Updated: 05/31/2012 12:07 pm
Part-time children's educator, part-time torture mechanism.
In 2008, reports surfaced that detainees at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured by songs such as Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and Drowning Pool's "Bodies."
Now, a new documentary from Al Jazeera shows that detainees may also have been subjected to musical torture of a softer variety.
According to the report, prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were forced to wear headphones blasting music from Sesame Street on repeat for hours or days on end.
Christopher Cerf, the award-winning composer of Sesame Street, was stunned to learn how his music was being exploited.
"My first reaction was this just can't possibly be true," he told Al Jazeera. "...Of course I didn't really like the idea that I was helping break down prisoners, but it was much worse when I heard later that they were actually using the music in Guantanamo to actually do deep, long-term interrogations and obviously to inflict enough pain on prisoners so they would talk."
This isn't the first time that music from Sesame Street has been used to break the will of prisoners. In 2003, the U.S. reportedly used the soundtrack to soften up Iraqi POWs.
Sesame Street, an educational children's television series, has been on the air since 1969.
Watch the full report from Al Jazeera in the video above. Below, check out some of the tunes reportedly used at Gitmo.
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
Not a lot of westerners realise that:
Mahna mahna (ba dee bedeba) mahna mahna (ba debe dee)
is Arabic for
Terrorism is bad (so stop it, OK?) terrorism is bad (so stop it!)
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.
How horrible.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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HC, I created this thread as a non-serious thread. Lighten up.
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
Pfft, torturing people, no big dealOriginally Posted by Hauldren Collider
How horrible.
It's clearly just enhanced interrogation, not torture. If we were going for torture the obvious choice would be Elmo's song or [mandatory] Celine Dion.
"tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner"
I'm calling bullshit on this, because as we all know, Osama bin Laden and Bert were old pals before Seal Team 6 got involved.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Bert? What's Osama doing hanging around with the gay one? Wouldn't Oscar be a better match?
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Yeah, that's what they said about Arafat, too.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Really? All I remember saying about Arafat is changing his name to "ya sure are a fatty." Then again, I was in grade school back when he was in power.
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Google gay Arafat, and get back to me.
I'm just disappointed Al Queda decided to confirm Bin Laden's death so quickly. I didn't get to roll out the Dead Parrot skit for him.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
He's just pining for the fjords. And the 72 virgins.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
The only reason they confirmed it was so they could give us abuse on how we disposed of the body. They couldn't really do that unless they admitted it was him.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
Surely Barney the Dinosaur would have broken them faster.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
Don't even joke about that. You MONSTER.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
I was going to post this. Barney's "I love you, you love me . . ." song would be excellent.
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
Alright, seriously, whose DL are you?
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
I wouold have exposed them to the vocal stylings of the Gaeta girls.
"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
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