It is where we are headed: “Well, we smoked the speeder we couldn’t catch for public safety. I mean, if we hadn’t smoked his ass using a drone missile strike he may have run into somebody. The family? Oh, you mean the collateral damage recipients? Well, that is the consequences of the speeder racing down the freeway. Sorry to the family but it wasn’t our fault.”
The meta-macro I see is the forces of .gov justifying anything up to Buchenwald on the basis that if the grid goes down, we collapse to a new dark ages. In order to prevent that outcome, they will justify anything, up to drone strikes against “anti-.gov” troublemakers.