Robert - excellent post, with lots of very interesting and provocative ideas. I think you are absolutely on the money about what these orders reflect, and that this is something deeper and more systemic about law and its use in constructing / constraining / managing social interaction. They seem to me also to be in tune with wider socio-legal developments in "risk society", not so different at one level from the move towards whole body X-rays in airports or the construction of PLHIV as being infected with biological weaponry (as the Michigan case suggested). I guess that taken together there is a way of reading these developments as emblematic / symptomatic of the hyper-individualism that marks neo-Liberal society (or, paradoxically, the "Big Society" that demands that we take responsibility for others, rather than being supported through law and other social institutions to develop bonds of properly mutual care and support).