Those Secret Torture-Prisons: A Modest Proposal

By Bernard Weiner
Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
December 13, 2005

I am always open to innovative ways of raising money for cash-strapped governments, as long as it doesn't cost me anything extra. Many states, for example, sponsor lotteries; nobody is forced to buy in, but millions of citizens purchase tickets that help underwrite our schools and road-repairs.

In that light, I have a modest proposal for the Bush Administration: Auction off torture rights.