this would break me...

A prisoner recently released from Guantamo confirmed that part of his interrogations included being subjected to "The Eminem Show" at a thundering volume, on repeat. For hours. Other songs used included Metallica's "Enter Sandman", the Barney Theme Song, and Matchbox 20.

As easy as it is to take this lightly (remember the scene in Back to the Future where Marty convinces his dad to take Lorraine to the dance by subjected him to Van Halen at maximum volume?), this is, like pretty much all the news to come out of Guantanamo, sickening. I once came back from a month of backpacking with no media or outside stimulation, and listening to the Beatles on the bus at the end was overwhelmingly emotional. And that was a benign, voluntary experience.

Now imagine being ripped away from your family, shipped off to a foreign country and imprisoned in a location where you have no idea where you are, routinely submitted to physical torture (like waterboarding and electric shocks), psychological torture (stripped naked, humiliated by members of the opposite sex), and on top of that you're locked in a room forced to listen to Metallica scream "Exit light/enter night/take my hand/we're off to Never-neverland" for hours on end? Hell on earth.