LET'S ALL GIVE OUR HEADS A COLLECTIVE SHAKE

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "LET ME COUNT THE WAYS": 

23:18
We might save one expenditure or at least maybe reduce it. Looks like that ugly thing is not going to be in the Peace Park.

It might cost less to shove it somewhere else. 

Posted by Anonymous to  Our Town and Its Business at 6 November 2015 at 08:01

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It would cost nothing at all the town didn't accept it. 

Why do we need it ? Some wallah in full uniform comes and tells a tale about the federal government having bought or commissioned to build two-hundred and fifty infernal machines, cobbled together from spare parts, and looking for places to park them. 

And Council  jumps at the opportunity

With an agreement yet.  

They have to be properly displayed and maintained. 

They could  be a hazard and that would  involve insurance premiums. 

We know the insurance company has no problem taking the town's money and giving it away.

What about graffiti? 

 If I feel no reverence for a war machine, why should  a would -be teen-age artist with a handy-dandy can of spray paint refrain. 

Council has agreed to  spend $15,000 to cover grass with a bloody great slab of concrete to support the frigging thing. 

Lake Simcoe Conservation won't  allow paved surface for parking in Shepherd's Bush. But the town can pave a  green and verdant war memorial garden with concrete and a chunk of ugly metal, likely painted in camouflage. 

Trees planted in that space commemorate every name on the Altar of Sacrifice. Which of them  will be cut down to make room for the machine? 

Apparently nothing indicates it's a giveaway. Or the cost, if  not. 

Who will pay for it ? Queen's York Rangers? 

Where would they get the funds ? Out of their own personal pockets? Or the  Department of National Defense? 

But  DND commissioned them, to sell them.

Whose interest was being served with that sleight of hand? 

Some job creation scheme in a riding to a garner votes possibly ...or pay off a campaign contributor...certainly nothing noble 

We know the Aurora Legion doesn't have what they need to maintain their facility. They have to fund-raise . The town pays their taxes to the Region and school board. If they have money to spare to buy a tin can facsimile if a light armoured  vehicle then they should have money to pay their taxes. 

That's something Council should be talking  about .

Collecting taxes to pay for services provided, where taxes are due.

Instead of throwing money about for a reminder of the worst days of the lives of war veterans. What kind of twisted thinking is that?

President Obama mentioned in passing a week or so ago, "volunteering" for the army is down 15% in the U.S. 

That's one way of ending all war. 

If recruits were required to spend time with the army of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress and not getting any help from their  government, they might get a more realistic sense  of what war is about before they sign up for it. 

Who are these people with the military mind set so keen to litter the town with war relics ?

Are they Aurora residents? Who says so?

A vote on the Auroran poll must be cast on line. That's not an indication of local support.

If everybody at the hydro building belonging to the militia, cast a vote in favour and none of them were  Aurora  taxpayers ,why should that count?

 

Wattstrending  has a post on the f....ing appalling record of these monuments to bureaucratic military dunderheads  who have never been within five miles of a battlefront and how many lives of Canadian sons,brothers and husbands they've  taken.