No, they're damned if they do because they do it almost suicidally wrongheadedly. All our security theatre does is catch the visible idiots. No matter how many

No, they're damned if they do because they do it almost suicidally wrongheadedly. All our security theatre does is catch the visible idiots. No matter how many crazy people you convince to push the button on a fake surface-to-air missile, you'll never catch the potential McVeighs, and who are capable of working and planning alone, and have a "real" (ie, nuanced and long-lasting) goal that allows for many possible actions. In fact, by swinging the discourse to "Terrorists are crazy people with scraggly beards" (Unix programmers?!) they've nerfed our actual defensive strategies. Every time someone calls in a non-existent threat because of wires and LEDs, we lose a little. It's not a conspiracy to weaken us as that would require them to be looking beyond their next paycheck/bonus, but it functions as one.