Why is Silverstone's Dad's Army swarming with ex-military?

Is oxymoronic taskmaster Mike Silverstone recruiting foot-soldiers for Dad's Army?

A few oxymoron came to mind when the Desert Rat discovered that Donald Barrett the Liberal candidate for the seat of Cockburn in the recent state election, was, prior to the election, an intelligence analyst (oxymoron) with the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Did Donald Barrett ever work for Brigadier Children Overboard Mike Silverstone in the army? Why is the CCC swarming with retired military - army to boot?

Is there real corruption involved in the appointment of staff to the CCC? Does it help to be a retired army serviceman? Does it help to have worked previously for or under Brigadier Mike Silverstone?

Our erstwhile CCC intelligence analyst Barrett must have been a little slow off the mark as he failed to make any headway against Left Faction super-dill Fran "How about a threesome?" Logan. Logan is the Left Faction slug and ALP Member for Cockburn who presided over Western Power board members, public servants and consultants who ripped off Western Power and taxpayers during his oversight of the botched break-up of the utility. He also presided over regular power shortages each summer, the Varanus Island fiasco and couldn't string two coherent sentences together and left us with a dysfunctional government power system. Just as well AlintaGas was privatised because Logan would have stuffed that up as well.

Donald Barrett tells us in the election blurb that he was in the army for 18 years, but says nothing about experience in military intelligence work. His rank isn't given so he was presumably an under achiever or wasn't into self promotion - not something you would expect from a political hopeful.

But then again they are really slow down at the CCC.

It is an open secret that these retired soldiers are having a working holiday at the CCC. Perhaps they are well suited to "intelligence" work in such massive vacuum or empty space such as the CCC, undertaking government intelligence or military intelligence, whatever it may be. Was Barrett the person who "discovered" the false evidence about Brian Burke and Julian Grill? Or was it the wee beastie who wishes to appear invisible, Mike Silverstone who dreams up the false evidence? The CCC clowns seem to equate military justice with civilian justice - as dispensed by our courts. That's not surprising as CCC supremo Roberts-Smith is a former military Judge Advocate.

We can be thankful that this potpourri of chablis sipping cut-lunch soldiers and amateurs is not running military operations in Afghanistan. Given their performance at the CCC and in the Timor Sea (Children Overboard), they should have remained military retirees.