...I'd think seriously about the timing of the "terror alerts" that my government would issue. I'd at least make sure they were plausible, credible reports of possible terror, and more than that, I'd try to issue them so that it didn't always look like I was trying to do the old "look over there!" routine to distract attention from bad news elsewhere in my government. Like if a hurricane had just hit and my government did a terrible job responding to it, or if I'd just appointed a Supreme Court nominee that even the people who were SUPPOSED to be my friends detested, I wouldn't go issuing a terror alert in hopes of distracting their attention. Pretty soon, people will start to figure out that kind of stuff.