Posted on 09/21/2013 11:22:24 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Songs by the Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias were used "to inflict psychological and physical damage" on prisoners detained during the military dictatorship of Chile's Augusto Pinochet.
Dr Katia Chornik, a researcher at Manchester University, has looked into how the military dictator employed songs by Spain's most internationally celebrated singer as part of a "torture soundtrack".
Other songs by former Beatle George Harrison, Italian pop artist Gigi l'Amoroso and the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange were played over and over again at high volume in the countless torture houses and concentration camps of Chile's dictatorship years.
"Pinochet's system used music to indoctrinate detainees, as a form of punishment and a soundtrack to torture," Chornick told the Daily Telegraph.
"Played at intensely high volumes for days on end, the otherwise popular songs were used to inflict psychological and physical damage."
His music has the same effect on most any living thing. That is why playing it to prisoners is against the Geneva Convention. Their heads would explode just like the Martian heads did.
Uh, ...sorry.
You’re welcome; I wish people could see both sides of these stories instead of left-wing propaganda pushed by the communists who dominate our country & media.
I read the text of a speech once that Franco gave when the US signed a deal to put bases in Spain in the 1950s; the gist of it was that it was a shame that it had taken the US so long to realize what he and his countrymen had fought against 20 years before in their civil war (in which he received no help from the West except for Germany, Italy, and Portugal - all fascist states).
Can I be in charge of the Journey and Pat Benatar prisoners? Not only would I revel in it, I would sing along. I’m just that twisted.
Good tune. Very catchy!
Mariachi music?
She’s fat!
Are they sure it wasn’t Willie Nelson’s part of the duet that inflicted the real pain?
Or the Eagles.
Sounds like the radio station they force us to listen to at work.
I tell ya, when you think about it, there is more than enough bad music and not enough cruel dictators and their political prisoners to make use of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKJ-0bnxdA
On “Married With Children”, Griff was initiated into NO’MAAM by being locked in a room and forced to watch a tape of a special two hour episode of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” It nearly broke him.They would have had a hard time with getting visions of Kelley off my mind.
They don’t know torture if they’ve never listened to the song with no beginning or end while on hold for an hour with IRS.
Chanson d’Amour would have me screaming in a few minutes.
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