Nobody ever said Bitcoin is targeted directly by SEC but the problem is started with the actions of SEC. They are indirectly disturbing the Bitcoin economic workflow and in reality it's getting worst as the related products are failing to survive in the market. For example, exchanges, p2p platforms, financial institutes directly involved with BTC trades and much more are getting targeted and thus they are failing to run the business properly. The aftermath? Bitcoin that is in possession of those institutes is getting ceased and that actually belongs to the users of those platforms. Now, its big world and there are many people so we can't ask everyone to bend their minds to use decentralized platforms and that's different story so they are going to use these handy tools which ultimately fails bitcoin. Also, with the time SEC gonna put hard burden in Bitcoin's operation so it's still not entirely true what you mentioned about them. SEC does have Devils eyes.