Hi Paulie,
people who possess personalities like barnett always have a motive simmering below whatever actions they may or may not be up to.
He has a sense of entitlement not because of his achievements / experiences in our sport but as a derivative of his personality, and as such, his behaviour is extremely resilient.
He cannot allow himself to admit failure, or indeed take any responsibility for what he's done - it's always someone else's fault, never his.
I'm not a doctor or a psychologist / psychiatrist but if somebody says to you, a patient is suffering from the following symptoms:- fever, cough, headache, aching muscles and tiredness. I don't need no medical degree to realise there's a strong possibility the patient has the flu.
And in barnett's case, if you go look at the textbook definition of 'megalomania', barnett slots right in there.
But of course you do need information regarding what he's done to make that diagnosis, and you can get that easily enough by just asking some of the people he's been working with and looking at the threats he's made to people in terms of 'destroying them'.
I haven't made up any of what I've said about him; if people don't believe me, then at the very least, they're in denial, at worst, they're just plain stupid.
If any of the industry people I have mentioned in my posts re barnett, didn't like what I had said about them, they are free to either deny any claims I might have made of them, or get in touch with me personally, and ask me to delete whatever it is they feel needs to be taken out.
I have received no such instruction from any of them ... if I had, you would have seen text removed ... and there has been none.
And think about it for heaven's sake, if I had made up any accounts of industry figures saying this or that about barnett .. they would be on to me like a flash requiring I take down anything relating to them that wasn't true ..
barnett claims he was innocent regarding dubious accounting practices, the evidence, circumstantial I know [he would never put his hands up and admit one damned thing] but in the absence of any direct evidence such as listening to a recording of him conspiring to defraud, we can only look at the circumstantial evidence that presented itself.
And why do you think he hasn't gone legal with me?
..because he's a nice bloke?
..because he can't be bothered?
Nah, he hasn't gone legal coz he really cannot afford anyone digging around his business, he realises of course that I have all the records of the posts made on p8ntballer.com where we demanded to see the accounts week on week and he refused .... time and time again.
If it went to court, then barnett knows damned well other people will be bought in to testify and for a lot of people, committing perjury isn't something they would do; faced with supporting barnett and committing perjury, most would come clean, they would have to.
I, on the other hand haven't done a damned thing apart from pi$s off him and his bunch of miscreants.
There is no court in this world [apart from in the US] that would find in his favour when all the evidence is, circumstantially at least, indicating, it's barnett who has the case to answer.
I never took one damned penny for support for soldiers, he did, he took thousands, and all his pathetic little acolytes elect to disregard what's staring them in the face in favour of standing behind the self-proclaimed messiah of paintball.
Warped Sports are the dominant force in rec-ball with their yearly big game that attracts players from all over the world and the event is the biggest by far in the UK - they are the thousand pound gorilla in the rec world, not shoreline .. shoreline is merely a vehicle for barnett's pathology.
And even then, barnett's paranoia is seemingly boundless because he's declared he wants to destroy the Warped Sports yearly event, North v South... he seems to want to destroy each and everyone who he feels has either wronged him or is in competition with him.
If and when I catch up with barnett, I really hope he lives up to his own hype and doesn't deposit huge dollops of faeces in his diapers because the smell would disappoint me.
I want him to stand by whatever it is he has said about me because I will stand by everything I have said about him, and I'll repeat to his face .. let's hope he feels the same resolve as I do - it will make for an interesting meeting/discussion that's for sure.