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Dictator tortured victims with Julio Iglesias music
The Local (Spain) ^ | 12 Sep 2013 16:38 GMT+02:00

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chile; communismkills; pinochet
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To: DeaconBenjamin

The left gives itself ulcers in its hatred of Pinochet, but, in the final analysis:

“Pinochet’s new government also implemented economic reforms, including currency stabilization, tariff cutting, opening Chile’s markets to global trade, restricting labor unions, privatizing social security, and the privatization of hundreds of state-controlled industries. These policies produced what has been referred to as the “Miracle of Chile”.

Yep, he smote the communists and gave Chile an unprecedented run at prosperity and modernity. And the left will never forgive him for it.


61 posted on 09/21/2013 1:31:03 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Hoodat
Or the Eagles.

NOW we have a problem, the Eagles were great

Go ahead, torture me while I'm stuck here in the Hotel California, replying to your prejudicial post about the Eagles, and considering a Life in the Fast Lane. Go ahead, trash me all you want since In the Long Run, I'm Already Gone...

Yep, that's right bro, I'm just a Desperado on this thread.......

So what's that gonna leave you with bro, A Heartache Tonight? Probably not since your Lyin Eyes have already revealed that you've decided to Take it to the Limit.

Final advice: Take it Easy!

62 posted on 09/21/2013 1:37:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Oh, c’mon, you’re being a bit rough on a song from our childhood in the ‘70s. It’s not that bad.


63 posted on 09/21/2013 1:41:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

64 posted on 09/21/2013 1:45:25 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Anything but....
Sunshine, on my shoulders, makes me..... barf.


65 posted on 09/21/2013 1:46:57 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (Even the liberal media can't keep lipstick on this pig.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Good for Pinochet. Commies SOBs deserved it. Amazing that guy could buy underwear with the size stones he had.


66 posted on 09/21/2013 1:47:01 PM PDT by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It was that bad for me. My Mom had pic(s) of me as a ~3 or 4 year old hitting my own head when that song was playing. Complete Tourette’s meltdown.

No, I’m not joking.

If I can find the pics, I’ll scan and email.


67 posted on 09/21/2013 1:52:49 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

That’s OK, I’ll take your word for it. I’m sure I can think of some music that makes me go freaky-deaky, but I’m worried I’ll have it playing in my head.


68 posted on 09/21/2013 2:00:19 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Thanks; I’d have to finish going through Mom’s stuff to get them...not doing that yet...:(

Keep the freaky-deaky stuff out of your head; life’s less painful that way.


69 posted on 09/21/2013 2:03:29 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

That would be in-humane


70 posted on 09/21/2013 2:15:36 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Evil WILL flourish when good men WILL not act)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Ha! Wimps! If they were going for REAL torture, they’d play Kumbaya and The Barney Song.


71 posted on 09/21/2013 2:17:17 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: kearnyirish2

Great post! History that needs to not die away.

I remember when Agosto Pinochet overthrew the commie Salvador Allende in 1973. I have admired him ever since not only for what he did for Chile, but also for the hateful evilness of his enemies here in the U.S.

Reading this story about “torture music”, I’m now inclined to think that Gen. Pinochet was not only a great man, but maybe just a way cool dude as well.

That’s like the store owners who drive away loitering gangbangers by blasting classical music at them.


72 posted on 09/21/2013 2:37:51 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Revolting cat!

I would rather think they’d use this version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0eb0tDjIk


73 posted on 09/21/2013 3:16:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: elcid1970

Thanks; I was very young when he overthrew Allende (the first thing I remember is the bicentennial).

Viva El Cid! Nice history in that name as well!


74 posted on 09/21/2013 4:12:07 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (The talking heads have admitted is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Yoko Ono dubbed duet with John singing “Imagine”.


75 posted on 09/21/2013 5:16:59 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: GeronL

One eyed, one horned BLIND purple people eater.


76 posted on 09/21/2013 8:28:39 PM PDT by az wildkitten (8 years 'til I retire)
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To: az wildkitten

blind?

It was FLYING, flying purple people eater

Not that I have ever seen purple people, its preferred food source


77 posted on 09/21/2013 8:55:41 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj

I can’t finish watching that. The video and song disturb me.

If interrogated with bad music I’d crack in 5 seconds.


78 posted on 09/23/2013 1:19:21 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

“Someone left the cake out in the rain”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHx0B90FUc


79 posted on 09/23/2013 1:37:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: GeronL
Not that I have ever seen purple people...

Nor have I, but this comes close...

80 posted on 09/23/2013 1:46:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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