Us Military Uses Barney. Sesame

CplDavis · May 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Street on Iraqi POWS</div> I was watching CNN. They had a little news snippet on this subject this afternoon.

One of the interrigation methods used by the US on Iraqi POWS is to make them listen to loud Metal rock music, and songs by Barney the Purple Dinosaur and Sesame Street for up to 23 hours at a time. According to them, listening to the rock music makes you "break down" to interregations and the Barney musc like that "I love you, You love me" song just is so annoying they POWS will willingly answer the qeustions rather then have to be subjected to more of it.

Lolz I guess there is a reason to keep that dumb dinosaur around after all.
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I can just imagine this somewhere over in the middle east....

POW : NO You will never get me to talk NEVER
US: Hmm Riiiight we'll see about that, oh believe me we have ways of making you talk.
POW: Never! GO Stuff IT!
US: *Sigh ookee dokie....

"I love you, You love me........"
7 hours later
POW: OMG ILL TALK I GIVE UP! I GIVE UP AHH JUST TURN IT OFF FOR THE LOVE OF..."
US: Works every time <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Beast · May 2003

Dude, I don't think even THEY deserve this kinda of treatment, its reseerved for people like Hitler and so on.

Bogglesteinsky · May 2003

so thats the viewing population.

and i thought it was for little kids...

Rellix · May 2003

One of my many nightmars are comming true.

Burr · May 2003

ROFL, this is great!

TychoCelchuuu · May 2003

That's the stuff people used to joke about. Link?

Legionnaired · May 2003

I too would like linkage.

Cereal_KillR · May 2003

omg tough job to be POW

Dubers · May 2003

Another one they like to do is play sounds from slaughter houses e.g. pigs, chickens, cows being slaughtered for long periods of time. Makes you doubt you own sanity.

CplDavis · May 2003

Yea I looked but I coulndt find the link. It wasnt a major story so u gotta look for it. But I swore I saw it on TV in the break room. It was funny, they had a pic of barney in the corner of the screen. If someone finds it pelase link here.

Liku · May 2003

Wow, I guess no one's going to say anything in a US Interogation. That's nothing.

Marik_Steele · May 2003

They're using stuff as old as Barney? Sheesh, get with the times! www.hamsterdance.com !

/me dares to go to website himself, not having visited in a year

...um....wow. Whoever decided to give these guys the money to produce all these new remixes and CDs must have totally lost their marbles...

Speed_2_Dave · May 2003

isn't torture illegal now? Some sort of human rights convention? Oh well, it's not like the US follows internation policy anyways. GG US, way to keep the world divided.

UZi · May 2003

Speed?

Beats blasting them into rubble. eh?

It's called PSYOPS we used it on noriega when we were in panama in order to flush him out.

only he got heavy metal.

Confuzor · May 2003

Don't they like Bert from Sesame Street though? After 9/11, some guy posted him next with Osama.

<img src='http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/graphics/osama_bert.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
- <i>The Sesame Street character Bert made his way into a recent pro-Osama bin Laden protest in Bangladesh. Anti-American protesters apparently lifted this parody image off the Internet and plastered it on a sign as part of a collage of bin Laden photos. </i>

I was suprised as heck to find out it wasn't a hoax.

Sirus · May 2003

Where Is the REBEL BASE ?

redeemed_darkness · May 2003

barney is used in torture ?!?! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>
no wonder kids are all **** up <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Injury · May 2003

This reminds me of the whole Mariah Carey interrogation technique, probably patented by now.

Okabore · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ May 19 2003, 04:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>omg tough job to be POW</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
They are not POW:s . They are illegal soldiers so apparently they don't even have any human rights. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>
I'm thinking about invading usa, kidnap anyone who puts up a fight and then torture them. Who is with me?

I saw an article about this in a Swedish newspaper so if it's a hoax then it's a wellspread one.

And to all who thinks this is fun, fgs get some empathy.

Nemesis_Zero · May 2003

Interesting to note, while prepping the country for the war, the US govt. spread reports of former Iraqi prisoners who were forced to live in a completely red cell - walls, furniture, light, everything bright red. There, they had few problems identifying it as psychological torture.

Burr · May 2003

See, thats why kids raised on Barney are all messed up....

All the normal people were raised on Transformers (and not the crappy new show either (Armada))

Edit: I was just watching MTV2, and a news update said the same thing as this thread, and said using songs like Metallicas' "Enter Sandman" and Drowning Pools' "Bodies", as well as Barney

moultano · May 2003

I can't imagine that this would be effective in the least. Anyone with a three year old kid has probably had to put up with worse.

Burr · May 2003

THey said most Iraqis haven't heard Metal or Barney/Sesame street before, so It is strange, loud, and repetitive!

Nemesis_Zero · May 2003

Plus, imagine hearing real loud Metal for (seemingly) 24/7. Believe me, it'd get to your nerves.

dr_d · May 2003

Torture has been proving again and again to provide false information, because at some point the prisoner will crack and spout off anything to get out of the situation.

Besides we've been using that crap for years now, what's it called? Sodium-something-or-other, truth syrome formula. It works so I'd go on a limb and say any reports on interegation methods are just for PR.

Dread · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ May 20 2003, 04:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Plus, imagine hearing real loud Metal for (seemingly) 24/7. Believe me, it'd get to your nerves.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I think you could put up with the metal but I imagine it's played real loud and around the clock so you can't sleep.

On the illegal soldiers: so now everyone living in USA know that if you defend your home with your firearm from invaders you are illegal combatant and therefor you have no human rights. Right?

dr_d · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dread @ May 20 2003, 12:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ May 20 2003, 04:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Plus, imagine hearing real loud Metal for (seemingly) 24/7. Believe me, it'd get to your nerves. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I think you could put up with the metal but I imagine it's played real loud and around the clock so you can't sleep.

On the illegal soldiers: so now everyone living in USA know that if you defend your home with your firearm from invaders you are illegal combatant and therefor you have no human rights. Right?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Illegal combatant my arse. Ye's step foot on my propertay and I's will shoot ye's, you's varments.

Dread · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ May 20 2003, 05:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Illegal combatant my arse. Ye's step foot on my propertay and I's will shoot ye's, you's varments. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
a) I don't want to go offtopic but we are already <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>
b) I don't want to offend anyone, sorry if I do
c) Im not sure if this is true and I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't but...

...isn't it legal to shoot a black man closing your door in some state? Probably just BS but I read this somewhere(maybe dumblaws.com) and it's an old law that still stands.

Edit: and this would be in United States of America. Forgot to add the name of the country <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

dr_d · May 2003

It's legal in a lot of states to shoot someone who is on your property against your will/unlawfully, I think this would include your porch. However I know in California it's legal to discharge a defensive round when you or a family member is threatened, so technically if the blackman was kidnapping your daughter and he shut the door to try to get away from you It would be legal to shoot him here too. I'm sure that's not what you meant though heh.

Dread · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ May 20 2003, 06:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It's legal in a lot of states to shoot someone who is on your property against your will/unlawfully, I think this would include your porch. However I know in California it's legal to discharge a defensive round when you or a family member is threatened, so technically if the blackman was kidnapping your duaghter and he shut the door to try to get away from you It would be legal to shoot him here too. I'm sure that's not what you meant though heh.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Not really, I think it was only if the person is black. Well, doesn't matter.

You can shoot someone on your property? Oh man, I must say not very human-friendly.

Kids stealing appels + old grumpy man with a shotgun = uh, oh

dr_d · May 2003

Dern rapscallions, this'all teech ye's to paw my appals! *boom* Come back here you's varments! *boom*

Umm the law differs from state to state, but yep in a lot of them it's legal to shoot trespassers.

Us Military Uses Barney. Sesame

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