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Offline Ben Yehuda

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Metallica Singer 'Proud' of Music's Role in "Torture"
« on: October 29, 2009, 04:05:47 PM »
Is listening to Metallica torture?  ;D


http://www.newser.com/story/72796/metallica-singer-proud-of-musics-role-in-torture.html


(Newser) – Metallica frontman James Hetfield is rather proud his band's music was played at top volume to break down the resistance of Guantanamo detainees under interrogation. "It’s strong, it’s music that’s powerful,” he told an interviewer from a German TV network. “It represents something that they don’t like—maybe freedom, aggression—I don’t know. Freedom of speech."

But he added that he was also "kind of bummed about it" because of his belief that politics and music don't mix. Several American musicians opposed to the use of their music on Gitmo prisoners recently joined a call demanding that the federal government release documents on the practice.


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Re: Metallica Singer 'Proud' of Music's Role in "Torture"
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 04:15:45 PM »
wtf I love metallica :S
I know their new material isn't as good as the old one but .... still ... MetallicA !!:)
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Re: Metallica Singer 'Proud' of Music's Role in "Torture"
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 04:23:17 PM »
You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
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Re: Metallica Singer 'Proud' of Music's Role in "Torture"
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 04:24:07 PM »


That's actually my favorite album of there's
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Re: Metallica Singer 'Proud' of Music's Role in "Torture"
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2009, 04:33:56 PM »
They should have made them watch sponge bob.