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"> So how do we get people to place a higher value on, say, their liberties and human rights instead of fear of the spectre of terrorism?

All accounts of his interrogation have him trying to bluff them away from the town by scaring them with the spectre of a mustered militia.

Hopefully mine grows to the point where the spectre about potentially having to go on a job interview ever again diminishes to nothing.

People are just trying to put things in perspective since people tend to treat nuclear power like some sort of mysterious spectre that might sneak into your home at night and eat your children.

The Red threat didn't officially end until 09/11/01, Communism continued to be a spectre held over the head of the American public.

So even if the NSA is reformed, there is still this spectre of this worldwide data collection and governmental collaboration hovering over society.

The biggest spectre is the concern that we release it and one of our competitors takes it, get's an advantage, continues to develop it internally and never gives back to the community.

People sense your vulnerability, and they can become angry with it, attack it as if they're attacking the spectre of insecurities or uncomfortable truths in their own shadow-selves.

I suppose politics are no less ridiculous today, but I think with the crumbling of the Soviet Union there was a real vacuum for common fears and the political machine was a bit out of practice to raise a credibly amorphous spectre such as "terrorism".

The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital.