If everything is a national emergency, nothing is.
I am appalled at how well "flood the zone" and "move fast and break things" works to destroy a nation. If sanity ever returns, the response to either action needs to be the death penalty. I don't know how to properly write a law for that, but it is clear to me that any lesser response will only cause the bastard to back up, and try again.
You're assuming that they know the first damn thing about their strongly held lifelong beliefs about the nature of reality.