If I'm one of the world's iconic rock bands, would I have a problem with the CIA blasting my music as part of it's torture cocktail?
I don't know, maybe we should ask one of my favorite groups, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
According to former intelligence officials
At times, Mr. Zubaydah, still weak from his wounds, was stripped and placed in a cell without a bunk or blankets. He stood or lay on the bare floor, sometimes with air-conditioning adjusted so that, one official said, Mr. Zubaydah seemed to turn blue. At other times, the interrogators piped in deafening blasts of music by groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Ahh. Every time "Under the Bridge" gets it's turn on my Ipod, I lay back, close my eyes, and imagine being wounded, naked, and suffering from hypothermia.
Unless you're a sadistic fuck, it seems reasonable to think that when Anthony Kidas was using his own darker moments as inspiration for lyrics, he probably never envisioned those same words as being the cause of insanity.
Zubaydah was mentally ill and nothing like the pivotal figure they supposed him to be. CIA and FBI analysts, poring over a diary he kept for more than a decade, found entries "in the voice of three people: Hani 1, Hani 2, and Hani 3"--a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego. All three recorded in numbing detail "what people ate, or wore, or trifling things they said." Dan Coleman, then the FBI's top al-Qaeda analyst, told a senior bureau official, "This guy is insane, certifiable, split personality."
If you are sadistic and think, "Heck yeah, torture him like like there's no tomorrow, he was trying to kill Amurricans!" you are a sadistic fuck who also happens to be a Dubya dumbass.
Crazy Abu Z. is exhibit A in the defense of "Operation Enduring Nightmares."
Mr. Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the use of aggressive interview techniques, but only in the most general terms. "We knew that Zubaydah had more information that could save innocent lives, but he stopped talking," Mr. Bush said. He said the C.I.A. had used "an alternative set of procedures'' after it became clear that Mr. Zubaydah "had received training on how to resist interrogation.
As the patriotic producer of fact-filled docudrams like "Path to 9/11", I would like ABC to keep the franchise going with "Post 9/11: America Kicks Ass While Annoying the Shit Out of Terrorists." Maybe the Red Hot Chili Peppers can compose the soundtrack?
I know, I know...Democrats need another celebrity spokesman like I need another STD. But the Red Hot Chili Peppers might just have the street cred in Red America to make the other 50% realize the great moral stain of using our nation's greatest artisitic expressions as a truth serum.
So I ask you, Red Hot Chili Peppers: How do you feel about your music being used during torture?