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Kanadensiska bandet "Skinny Puppy", har därför skickat en faktura till de amerikanska myndigheterna, sedan det avslöjats att deras musik använts av USA:s myndigheter för organiserad tortyr under s.k. förhör med "extra befogenheter..."
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Metal band ‘invoices’ US govt for using their music for ‘torture’ in Gitmo
RT 2014-02-01
Veteran Industrial band Skinny Puppy have objected to their disturbingly dark music being played to discombobulate inmates at Guantanamo, and plan to “charge” the government for doing so. They are not the first band to express such objections.
"We heard through a reliable grapevine that our music was being used in Guantanamo Bay prison camps to musically stun or torture people. We heard that our music was used on at least four occasions," the idiosyncratically monikered guitarist cEvin Key told The Phoenix New Times.
“So we thought it would be a good idea to make an invoice to the US government for musical services.”
While this may have been seen as an oblique compliment to a band that prides itself on its dark imagery, the thought of their music bringing genuine mental anguish was uncomfortable.
"We never supported those types of scenarios. Because we make unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way. But it doesn't sit right with us," said Key, who founded Skinny Puppy back in 1982.
The most famous objectors to their music being used for enhanced interrogation are heavy metal legends Metallica.
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Skinny Puppy - Inquisition (Live)
(Nu verkar väl de här killarna ändå va ganska "middle of the road pop" jämfört med en hel del extrema dödsmetallband. -reds.anm.)
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"Turning away wicked torturer force fed torment animal
Torture torturer turning away wicked torturer
Turning away wicked not facing himself wicked
Turning away wicked turning away ... Tortures the animal"(Utdrag ur texten från Skinny Puppets Inquisition)
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A 2006 anonymous interview with US service staff showed that it had become their band of choice “to soften up” suspects before an interrogation.
"If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, thirty Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel," retorted a defensive Lars Ulrich, the drummer for the band.
Skinny Puppy appears to fit the bill.
Forcing prisoners to listen to music has been a widespread tactic for at least the past few decades. The point is not only to intimidate, but also to humiliate, often by inflicting an incongruous foreign culture on a suspected terrorist (inoffensive pop singer Britney Spears also featured widely on US ‘interrogation mixes’).
But the practice has met with legal challenges. The UK, which used to subject IRA suspects to unpredictable and deafening spells of white noise, and Israel, have both been banned from doing so by their respective national courts.
- But not all bands mind the military association.
Christian metal band Demon Hunter sent the US army patches and CDs that would psych up US marines before missions. According to an Esquire interview in 2012, the Navy SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden was wearing just such a patch as he riddled the Islamist terrorist with bullets in May 2011.
http://rt.com/news/skinny-puppy-guantanamo-torture-524/
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http://www.infowars.com/industrial-band-bills-doj-for-using-its-music-as-a-torture-device/
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Publicerad den 13 feb 2014
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Nivek Ogre, lead singer of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, discussing the band's reaction to their music being used to torture Guantanamo detainees, as well as their motivation to be politically confrontational, their passion for animal rights, and the need to speak out in time of universal deceit.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UTSKex8YkU
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RT 2014-02-07
Canadian electro-industrial band, Skinny Puppy, has invoiced the US government for $666,000, after its music was used at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility as an instrument of torture.
Canadian electro-industrial band, Skinny Puppy, has invoiced the US government for $666,000, after its music was used at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility as an instrument of torture.
The band says its music has been played at the Guantanamo base in Cuba as part of the interrogation process for detainees. The facility was set up in 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 US terrorist attacks.
“We sent them an invoice for our musical services considering they had gone ahead and used our music without our knowledge and used it as an actual weapon against somebody,” keyboardist Cevin Key told CTV News.
“- I am not only against the fact they're using our music to inflict damage on somebody else, but they are doing it without anybody's permission,” he added.
Key had ‘insider knowledge’ regarding the usage of his music, learning from a fan who also served as a guard at the prison camp that the music had been used. After sending the documents to the Pentagon, Key said that they are even contemplating the possibility of a lawsuit.
A US military spokesperson told the BBC on Wednesday that it had not – at that point – received an invoice.
The US military has fallen under sharp criticism for its ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ employed at the facility.
Among more serious methods such as waterboarding, which was classified as torture by United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, in 2010 – it has also been reported that the US military has been blasting other loud bands into the cells of detainees – including Metallica, Nine Inch Nails – but also Queen and Sesame Street.
A 2006 anonymous interview with US service staff showed that it was Metallica that had become their band of choice “to soften up” suspects before an interrogation.
“If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, thirty Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel,” retorted a defensive Lars Ulrich, the drummer for the band.
A US Army general who allegedly authorized the practice of blasting loud music into cells said it would “create fear, disorient... and prolong capture shock,” according to the Associated Press.
January 11 marked twelve years since the first detainees arrived at the camp, prompting US human rights activists to march on the White House, citing the need for the facility’s closure.
- Out of 779 detainees held at Guantanamo in the past 12 years, only 7 have actually been convicted and sentenced.
Frustration with the indefinite detention was at the core of last year’s massive and months-long hunger strike, which was initially sparked by accusations that guards had interfered with the inmates’ personal belongings; this included the mishandling of Korans.
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"Ett Copyright-brott att yrkesmässigt tortera med musik - utan upphovsmannens tillåtelse"
Intervjun med SP tillagd 2014-02-14
SvaraRadera"Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Nivek Ogre, lead singer of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, discussing the band's reaction to their music being used to torture Guantanamo detainees, as well as their motivation to be politically confrontational, their passion for animal rights, and the need to speak out in time of universal deceit."