He discusses the Zimmerman trial, and it's significance to the growing power of government, and the rise of the government as agitator. He even works in the recent removal of the ban on government propaganda.
He summarizes thus:
In a way lifting the ban on propaganda makes sense. For years politicians have been devaluing the worth of American citizenship to the point where it appears to offer no meaningful protection against drone strikes, surveillance, job poaching or anything else. Why should they be spared from propaganda? Recall that the increasing use of police power is the consequence of a decline in legitimacy. Therefore we would expect that with less legitimacy there would be more surveillance, more cops, the more propaganda. And that is exactly what one sees. Coercion and propaganda is being substituted for consent.
Things have consequently become less about constitutional government than about the glorification of personalities. “American” as an identity is going extinct because it is a constitutional identity. Reduce the value of the one and you reduce the value of the other. The drone strikes, the growing legal equivalence between citizens and terrorists, unfettered immigration, unlimited surveillance, and a court system that everyone is encouraged to despise, not in the least by those who run the system themselves are merely nails in its coffin. The narrative is simple. The system is for chumps. It’s Who Sent You that matters. In other words, the only thing that appears to count any more is who your feudal master is. That is why nobody seems to care about re-establishing faith in the justice system any more. “Destroy it and deliver the pieces over to us,” is more like it.
Justice has come full circle, as Mark Steyn observers. It is no longer the King’s justice so much as the expression the King’s caprice. In that universe, Zimmerman and Martin are just ham sandwiches and the Narrative simply the sauce that make the medicine go down.
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