This has GOT to violate the Geneva Conventions

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-05-18 08:48pm

http://www.msnbc.com/news/914527.asp

Newsweek wrote:Psyop: The Love?s Not Mutual
The U.S. military is using Metallica and the ?Barney? theme song as instruments of coercion in Iraq

May 26 issue Your parents aren't the only ones who hate your music, some Iraqis hate it, too. U.S. military units have been breaking Saddam supporters with long sessions in which they're forced to listen to heavy-metal and children's songs. "Trust me, it works," says one U.S. operative.

THE IDEA, says Sgt. Mark Hadsell, is to break a subject's resistance by annoying that person with what some Iraqis would consider culturally offensive music. The songs that are being played include "Bodies" from the Vin Diesel "XXX" movie soundtrack and Metallica's "Enter Sandman." "These people haven't heard heavy metal before," he explains. "They can't take it." Few people could put up with the sledgehammer riffs of Metallica, and kiddie songs aren't that much easier, especially when selections include the "Sesame Street" theme and some of purple dinosaur Barney's crooning.
-Adam Piore

That is just too cruel!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-18 08:50pm

Poor shits, we really should lighten up on them and just use electrical wires

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-05-18 08:51pm

WHAT?!? If they want hard, fast riffs from Metallica, put on Whiplash or something...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-18 08:52pm

Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.

Striderteen · Post by **Striderteen** » 2003-05-18 08:52pm

Barney!!! Barney! Barney!

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-05-18 08:56pm

Hmmm, wading into crowds with night-stick drawn beating down protestors while the men in back fire bean-bags at those trying to escape, or the annoying ass theme song of a fuzzy reptilian (???) extint creature.

I'll take my night-stick thank you very much.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-18 08:57pm

One horrible way to torture Iraqi "I love you you love me we`re a happy family...........no put the gun down AAAAAHHHH" BANG.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-18 09:11pm

I knew it. Barney is a weapon of war.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-18 09:12pm

Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.

...

JIHAAAAD!

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-05-18 09:15pm

neoolong wrote:I knew it. Barney is a weapon of war.

Was there any doubt?

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-05-18 09:17pm

This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-05-18 09:20pm

Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!

I don`t remember the name of the place but it was the vatican embassy.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-18 09:20pm

Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!

Loud music is a common tactic with siege situations. The Feds tried it at Waco, but the Branch Davidians put there own speakers in the windows and proved that they had a sound system more then twice as powerful.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-05-18 09:21pm

Fuck it, if they resist, bring on the Disturbed or the God smack and if all else fails, Britney Spears.

Fuck em if they can't take a joke.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-18 09:25pm

HemlockGrey wrote:
Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
...

JIHAAAAD!

That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-05-18 09:31pm

Durran Korr wrote:
That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!

...
JIHAAAAAD! L'Hetfield! L'Ulrich!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-05-18 09:58pm

Durran Korr wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:
Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
...

JIHAAAAD!
That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!

Burn heathen!!!

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-05-18 10:00pm

Knife wrote:and if all else fails, Britney Spears.

If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-05-18 10:05pm

I think that these situations are not isolated. I've heard reports of Slayer being played by US tanks in the first Gulf War to scare the Iraqis into surrendering, and when we marched in on Kosovo we blasted Slayer from our vehicles.

For those of you who don't know who Slayer are, they were formed roughly the same time as Metallica, and in my opinion are much heavier; they outplay old Metallica, and make the new Metallica seem like even bigger pussies.

Ingersoll · Post by **Ingersoll** » 2003-05-18 10:11pm

Speaking of big pussies using Britney Spears would be worse than nukes. Its just mean, man, its just mean.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-18 10:26pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:
If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.

I'd have someone fire a burst from an AK-47 by each ear to destroy my hearing.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-05-18 10:33pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Wicked Pilot wrote:
If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.
I'd have someone fire a burst from an AK-47 by each ear to destroy my hearing.

You'd still have to watch her pathitic prancing and struting. She's a cute kid, but I have had just about as much as her as I can possibley stand.

Me or her, haven't decided yet.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-05-18 10:33pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!
Loud music is a common tactic with siege situations. The Feds tried it at Waco, but the Branch Davidians put there own speakers in the windows and proved that they had a sound system more then twice as powerful.

How cool would it have been if they'd played "Davidian" by MAchine Head...probably not chronologically correct, but it would've been sooo coool.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-19 05:53am

Knife wrote:and if all else fails, Britney Spears.

That's not funny.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-05-19 06:14am

Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.

depends if it's pre or post black...Pre-black would make people joyful and glad to be free