Reason Magazine's Government Overreach Predictions for 2008

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.reason.com/news/show/124055.html

As the end of the year approaches, it's time for another column of government overreach predictions for the New Year. What outrageous, beyond-parody grabs at power and erosions of civil liberties will transpire in 2008? My predictions:

• The Bush administration will claim it has the power to kidnap citizens of foreign countries for violating U.S. law, and extradite them to the U.S. for trial and imprisonment—even for white collar crimes unrelated to terrorism, and even for acts that aren't illegal in the countries where the target is a citizen.

• Police will take enforcement of prostitution laws to a new level, by arresting and seizing the cars of anyone who merely talks to an undercover cop posing as a sex worker. Good samaratans, beware.

• The war on prescription painkillers will also reach new absurdities, as people will begin to be arrested and convicted of possessing painkillers for which they have a prescription . Prosecutors will weirdly argue that there is no "prescription defense" to possessing prescribed medication.

More at the link, along with the catch...

[Bolo Boffin]

1. 1 kick... n/t

[SweetThingy]

2. the catch is that its at reason and foxnews.com hmmmm

right wing nuttards

[Bolo Boffin]

3. No...

That's not the catch.

The catch is those aren't really predictions. They've actually happened. Read through the list and marvel.

[HamdenRice]

4. Rightwing freeptards indeed

Reason is a right wing libertarian magazine. The author was at Cato Institute and is a contributor to Fox News.

What is this garbage doing on DU?