Leftie Musicians "Disgusted" That Music Was Used To "Torture" The Poor Al-Queda Terrorists At Gitmo, Demand Gitmo Be Closed (Video Below)

Thanks to Sgt. Tim at 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America for the link!

Well here comes the usual liberal suspects again, taking up for the poor and downtrodden, asking for you and I to make our voices heard.

As usual, it's a group of Leftist musicians whose liberal hearts are bleeding for al-Queda terrorists being detained at Club Gitmo. They've signed an "open letter" to Congress demanding the prison facility be shut down while expressing "disgust" that music was used to "torture" the poor wittle tewworists (Elmer Fudd impersonation).

From their front group, New Security Action:

...today we are thrilled that an incredible group of highly acclaimed musicians have signed onto the campaign. They are signing the open letter to Congress and asking you to join them. They include: Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Michelle Branch, Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Steve Earle, the Entrance Band, Joe Henry, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt (who lives in the liberal Marin County hamlet of Mill Valley, M.I.M.), R.E.M., Trent Reznor, Rise Against, The Roots.

Rosanne Cash told the Washington Post last night that she reacted with “absolute disgust” when she learned about the use of music as a means of torturing detainees at Guantanamo: “I think every musician should be involved. It seems so obvious. Music should never be used as torture.”

So, the list of musicians who are willing to stand up to close Guantanamo and end torture – including the music variety – could grow in the days and weeks to come. And, we are getting calls from some of them this afternoon wanting to do more. We’ll keep you posted.

Artists have joined on to political campaigns before, but this is slightly different. We know for a fact that the music of Rage Against the Machine (Tom’s band) and Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) was used at Guantanamo – music played at near ear-splitting volumes for hours on end – to torture detainees. As you might expect, they are not happy about it. Here’s what Tom had to say:

Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured – from water boarding, to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts - playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums. Guantanamo may be Dick Cheney’s idea of America, but it’s not mine. The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me – we need to end torture and close Guantanamo now.

You can check out what some of the other artists have gone on record saying here.

Who is New Security Action? The typical left-wing anti-war crowd like former Congressman Tom Andrews, a couple of retired Generals (Robert G. Gard and John Johns) who support Leftist causes, and Jon Soltz of the supposedly "non-partisan" veterans group VoteVets, who are more of a front group for liberal Democrat causes than for veterans.

Soltz has been discussed here before. He's the same Grade A douchebag who attacked my friend Melanie Morgan after the election last year in an e-mall, calling her a "stinky hagg." Just the other day, Mr. Tough Guy Soltz attacked Liz Cheney for daring to be a part of an organization called Keep America Safe (This Ain't Hell). Apart from having a problem with strong, powerful women, Soltz (whose combat experience was serving in the motor-pool) threatened to report at least one active duty soldier who fought in the War on Terror to his superiors for daring to dissent from his anti-war, anti-troop message.

It's funny, too, that most of the comments I've seen on the New Security Action website are rightfully attacking these "musicians."

I've been a music lover and musician for most of my life, and have a pretty good sized music collection over the last 20 plus years. Politically, I could care less who many of them vote for, that's their right. What I have a problem with are these musical Jane & Dick Fondas publicly crying their phony crocodile tears for al-Queda terrorists who would no sooner kill them than they would any other American infidel. Release them? Where? Back to the battle field as many of whom were released in the past have done? Bring them into our cities where they would be a security threat to American citizens, should they escape?

Where was the outrage of Jackson Browne (who allegedly physically assaulted former girlfriend Darryl Hannah) and the others when Americans were murdered in Iraq by beheadings or burned and hung from a bridge? Or when these terrorist detainees have been found to attack Gitmo guards 440 times from 2002 to summer of 2005?

The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.

Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by "cocktails" of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.

They’ve been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small "bean holes" used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say. Serious assaults requiring medical attention, however, are rare, the reports indicate.

The detainee "reached under the face mask of an IRF (Initial Reaction Force) team member’s helmet and scratched his face, attempting to gouge his eyes," states a May 27, 2005, report on an effort to remove a recalcitrant prisoner from his cell.

"The IRF team member received scratches to his face and eye socket area," the report said.

That's right, there was no outrage from the Liberal Musicians With No Conscience when Americans and US troops were killed or assaulted by their friends, the terrorists. These people could care less about the security of the American people. They take private jets, live behind security gates, yet they're so arrogant that they think just because you buy their music and tickets to their concerts they should preach their far-Left, anti-American views.

Well, speaking as one person, no more money for "musicians" who side with our enemies! Here's my response to three of these musicians--R.E.M., Jackson Browne, and Bonnie Raitt--via their music which I once had in my collection.



Is it any wonder that I'm becoming more of a country music fan these days?