According to Al Jazeera, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were “tortured” with Sesame Street. Really. Prisoners reported to Al Jazeera that they had been forced to wear headphones playing music from Sesame Street on a continuous loop for days on end. Christopher Cerf, who composes for the show, was outraged. “My first reaction was this just can’t possibly be true,” he said. “Of course, I didn’t really like the idea that I was helping break down prisoners, but it was much worse when I heard later that they were actually using the music in Guantanamo to actually do deep, long-term interrogations and obviously to inflict enough pain on prisoners so they would talk.”

In 2008, reports surfaced that detainees at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured by songs such as Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and Drowning Pool's "Bodies."

Now, a new documentary from Al Jazeera shows that detainees may also have been subjected to musical torture of a softer variety.

According to the report, prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were forced to wear headphones blasting music from Sesame Street on repeat for hours or days on end.

Torture By Sesame Street At Guantanamo Bay: Al Jazeera Reports (VIDEO)

Published on May 30, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

The film, Songs of War explores the relationship between music and violence.

The film's main protagonist is Christopher Cerf. The award-winning musician is a composer for Sesame Street, a popular American children's educational series.

Anyone who is calling that torture don't know what torture is

Originally posted by Openeye
reply to post by sonnny1

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Thus the victim becomes the monster.

Because it is perfectly reasonable to torture those that have done wrong to you, or to those you suspect of committing a crime.