In the last fifteen years, Western anti-terror policy has gone off the rails and has taken on bizarre aspects in some cases. The USA spends an estimated 70 billion US dollars annually on its infrastructural counter-terrorism efforts, not to mention the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the countries targeted by drone strikes. Following the attacks in 2001, they established a global surveillance apparatus, resulting in increasingly brutal terrorist attacks. The majority of Germans feel primarily threatened by terrorism. This is despite the fact that in the last 20 years, while there have been crimes and fatalities in crime statistics and general life risks in households, sports, leisure, and traffic, none have been caused by terrorist movements. Our society has a delusional perception of its own risk situation.