To suggest a link with "terrifying" state-sponsored censorship requires a huge leap of imagination.
No, what is sad about this story is the loss of innocence, the growth of mechanisation and apocalypticism, the rapid change that took place during the early months and years of the war from an amateurish, bungling attitude to one of terrifying state efficiency.
He spoke exclusively on Saturday to me about the protests and the "terrifying" state of insecurity in Egypt at the moment.
A terrified state wants to know who you communicate with and how, when, where, how often and for how long.
Nor has its potential to terrify state politicians who fear for their political hides should any harm come to Mr. Rajkumar, an elderly star with bad knees, who, like his kidnapper, goes by one name.
For this is a terrifying dystopian state, and fascist infiltration reaches into the quietest backwaters.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Johnson said some elements of the rebels were fighting "not for freedom but for a terrifying Islamic state in which they would have the whip hand – and yet there is no dodging or fudging the matter: these are among the Syrian rebels who are hoping now to benefit from the flow of Western arms".
"They are fighting not for freedom but for a terrifying Islamic state in which they would have the whip hand – and yet there is no dodging or fudging the matter: these are among the Syrian rebels who are hoping now to benefit from the flow of western arms.
They are fighting not for freedom but for a terrifying Islamic state in which they would have the whip hand — and yet there is no dodging or fudging the matter: these are among the Syrian rebels who are hoping now to benefit from the flow of Western arms..
We're all a bit worried about the terrifying surveillance state that becomes possible when you cross omnipresent cameras with reliable facial recognition — but a new study suggests that some of the best algorithms are far from infallible when it comes to sorting through a million or more faces.
It's not to "relax" or calm down; it's to pull yourself out of a terrifying mental state.
