[Dixielandjazz] Australian Army bands to be sacked

[Phil Wilking]

It's not the "military mind" that's doing this, it's the stupid civilians in 
the government who keep cutting the military budget for important things 
(such as defense (sic) of home and hearth) so as to spend the money to buy 
more votes for their worthless selves.

When a military service has to choose between having another crate of 
ammunition or a morale and recruiting tool, they go for the ammunition every 
time, as they should. In the last analysis they can press-gang cannon-fodder 
if they have to do it. And in a British-style disarmed civilian populace, 
who is going to stop them?

As for what will happen to the "surplus" equipment, you know full well it 
either will be stored and forgotten for a century or auctioned off for 2¢ on 
the dollar at some unpublicized site.

Music content: get to the auction early to get some real bargains in 
instruments.

Phil Wilking

Those who would exchange freedom for
security deserve neither freedom nor security.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Lince" <louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk>
>
> What are the Army going to do with the "repossessed instruments" and the 
> Uniforms? God preserve us from the Military mind (if that's not an 
> oxymoron)
>