Related Link » "Here, they torture you first"Dear President Obama: The next time we capture an enemy combatant, who may have valuable and actionable information, instead of Mirandizing him (or her), make him a landlord of a rent-controlled apartment in New York City. He'll sing like a canary. Guaranteed.
“One of my favorite examples of the cost of interfering with the market is rent control. [...] One Chinese woman, whose property-owning family had been murdered by the Communists, had been running an apartment house in Harlem. After one tenant refused to pay rent for two years, she finally got an order of eviction. The tenant responded by firebombing her office. She took him to criminal court. The judge looked at the case and said, ‘This isn't a criminal case, it's a housing matter’. Back they went to housing court. The housing judge overturned the eviction. For firebombing her office, the tenant got to keep his apartment. ‘I think I'm going back to China’, she told [William Tucker]. ‘Over there they just kill you and get it over with. Here they torture you first’.” [emphasis added]
— Craig Newmark, February 08, 2010
No muss; no fuss.
Post #1,123 At last — a Liberal alternative to water-boarding!
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