Looking for a song ID, but don’t want the video’s description viewable in mouseover, so I’m adding some space here.
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I was reading various articles about the horrific act of waterboarding, and eventually came across Christopher Hitchen’s article “Believe Me, It’s Torture” which led me to a video of him being given a demonstration (with a safe word and dead man’s switch device so he wasn’t in real danger). Strangely enough, the people putting on the demonstration started some music and turned it up loud. I liked it, and I would like to know what the music and who the singer is. Hitchens mentions it offhand as a “New Age” thing but it’s not.
Part of this is being angry at the thought that interrogators might actually use this or other good music while they’re torturing. Bad enough to torture, that’s utterly despicable, but to play good music at the same time? That’s something right out of A Clockwork Orange.
Torture in any form is horrifying, and I know this seems shallow, but I want to know what the music is anyway. This is a few months old, so I’m sure they know about it by now, and I want to find out if they’ve written anything about how it feels to have your music used during a torture demonstration.