There was a line in Broken Money by @LynAlden that was something to the effect that governments eventually add so many laws and regulations that the system eventually grinds itself to a halt because it becomes impossible to both navigate and enforce. We are right at that point. Absolutely everything is met with a lawsuit and trial now. They are trying to make some high profile examples to keep you fearful and thinking that the system is still functional. It is not, and don’t be afraid. Live your life. 

 Exactly this 

 For many “The Law” has replaced religion . But remember they had “Law” in communist Russia and National Socialist Germany. In Italy in the Second World War the law stated that 18 year old boys were conscripted to the army. If they tried to hide in the countryside to avoid this , their mothers were shot as a deterrent. 

 Absolutely. It’s an unfortunate but predictable demise.