Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Sesame Street Music Used To Torture Detainees At Guantanamo Bay

 

Songs of War -- Al Jazeera 

We follow a Sesame Street composer as he learns how his music has been used to torture detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Award-winning musician Christopher Cerf has composed music for the famous children's television show Sesame Street for 40 years.

During this time, he has written more than 200 songs intended to help children learn how to read and write. But these innocent children's songs were abused for inhumane purposes.

 In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.

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My Comment: Listening to Sesame is bad enough .... but the real torture is being forced to listen to Barney.

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