The Musicians' Union has spoken out about the use of recorded music by American authorities as a tool in interrogating prisoners. Presumably they'd rather the CIA use live music, then the Union's members would get paid.
No, not really. The Union wants the global body for musicians, the Federation Of International Musicians, to issue a statement condemning the practice that American operatives have admitted to using in which recorded music is played to prisoners loudly and repeatedly until they go insane and confess to all their sins (or say whatever the interrogators want to hear which is, of course, the reason torture is not only morally suspect but also often ineffective).
With Amnesty International classifying the use of music in this way as torture, and as such in breach of the Geneva Convention, MU General Secretary John Smith said yesterday: "The Musicians' Union deplores any use of music as an instrument of torture, and calls on all governments to outlaw the practice. As well as being inhumane, it is also a potential infringement of a musician's rights, and the MU will be putting a motion to the FIM conference with a view to securing international condemnation of the use of music in interrogations".