Reply #98: :eyes:

[Bolo Boffin]

In other words,
Barnett wants the military to police y'all.
In order to do this, the Constitution must be repealed.

It's a new way of looking at the vast behemoth that's become the Department of Defense, Dulce. He's tearing the old Army and Air Force apart - the DGD forces, the one involved in real conflict, will still be under posse comitatus restrictions. It's the SysAdmin forces, the DNS, that should be exempted from PC, according to Barnett. The Constitution won't have to be repealed, but it will need to be amended. That's going to take a lot of debate and discussion. You should really take the time to read Barnett's book instead of scouring his website looking for choice bits of spinnable quotage.

Oddly enough, you selected for your final lectionary passage, a section of a review by Karen Kwiatkowski. Here's what Barnett had to say about it:

I do take this as the definitive sort of libertarian review of my work, reflecting all the paranoid fears of government control, conspiracies (exploiting and seeking—dare I say "manufacturing" crises to confiscate power!), and globalization-at-the-barrel-of-a-gun fantasies. The distortions of the book are multiple, but not worth combating, for once I see the non-too-veiled reference to Nazi Germany ("Perhaps he picked up this idea after studying Germany in the 1930s."), I know we're into the territory of the black helicopters and one-world-government types. Her lowlight? Suggesting I intend on sending in the Marines to "connect" the Amish of Pennsylvania. Wow! She really nails me on that one! Exposed at last!

What's sad, is that with someone that starkly libertarian in their outlook, you never really can tell when they're being sarcastic or just plain wacko. I know, I get their emails on a daily basis.

Speaking of only Karen Kwiatkowski and not a single person on this forum, I'm going to posit sarcastic. Is that about right, Dulce?