Eric Raymond isn't as impressed with John Perry Barlow as InstaPundit is -- and lets him have it with both barrels. Here's a sample:

I am certain — because I've discussed related topics with him — that John Perry Barlow himself knows better. Which makes his willingness to posture about the Man coming to throw us in concentration camps less forgiveable than it would be in someone who's a complete moron on the subject, like (say) Michael Moore.

But what really repels me about the kind of posturing I'm nailing John Perry Barlow for isn't the objective silliness of it, it's the fact that it represents a kind of triumph of paranoid self-absorption as a political style. People in the (mainly left-wing) anti-Bush crowd snort with derision when they hear hard-right propaganda about how the Zionist Occupation Government is going to come after all true American white men with those black helicopters; why do they tolerate rhetoric that is just as narcissistic coming from their own?

To be fair, Barlow did retract his silly statement that

We can't afford to lose this [2004 election], folks. If we do, we'll have to set our watches back 60 years. If they even let us have watches in the camps, that is.

But to be equally fair to Eric, Barlow did make the statement, and it does represent too much of the rhetoric coming from too many Democrats since Bush took office.