March 28, 2004
IRON HEEL TRIUMPHANT
All hope is lost, reports tragic Terry Lane:
The leftish magazine Overland turns 50 this week. When Stephen Murray-Smith started the magazine, we still thought that argument could persuade and even change. But this week in his anniversary lecture and article, writer Barry Hill despairs: "The point is, everyone knows about it, and most of us feel - realistically - that we can do nothing as the Iron Heel of Corporate America treads where it wants." Exactly.
Argument can persuade and change, Terry. Just not your argument.
Posted by Tim Blair at March 28, 2004 03:00 AMDammit. Missed a spot. You buggers _will_ make me put on my Iron Heels on a weekend, won't you...?
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 28, 2004 at 03:26 AMAll hail the Iron Heel of Corporate America.
Tread on, tread on.
Sigh. A Fascist Crusher of Dissent's work is never done.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 28, 2004 at 04:30 AMNow, where did I leave those damn iron-heeled boots? Some pissant still needs a good stomping.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie at March 28, 2004 at 04:58 AMOverland Magazine and Mr. Hill should be advised that "Iron Heel" is a registered trademark of the Fascistelle Shoe Corp., and we are going to sue them out of existence. All with the complicity of our Australian puppet, Bushoward!
Joe Geoghegan
Chief Legal Counsel
Fascistelle Shoe Corp.
OK, who's the mid-level paper shuffler at IHOCA that somehow managed to miss this little magazine? Seems like at age 50 it should have been crushed to feathery smithereens by now.
Posted by: Brian Jones at March 28, 2004 at 06:01 AMLaugh all you want, you bastards, but it's a real shame that the iron heel of freedom has stomped out the collectivist dream. You fill your houses and your bellies with whatever you like, but you never stop to think of the new Soviet Man we were creating as we huddled, 15 of us to a flat, in our concrete towers, scared to say a word for fear one of us was an informer. Still, there's always hope for the next generation. They seem off to a good start, opposing globalization and trying to keep dictators in power. The dream lives!
Posted by: Mike G at March 28, 2004 at 06:27 AMWhat a sorry piece of shit Lane is!
Latham is trying to backtrack because cooler heads in the Labor Party know it is fucking political suicide in mainstream Australia to be anything other than 100% behind the American alliance. Not to mention the electoral appeal of his promise to have Australian troops cut and run while they are still needed by a new Iraqi government we helped to create.
In Lane's universe, everybody is fashionably anti-American. So the only explanation is that the big, evil, Yankee Government got on the phone and told Latham to pull his head in. And of course Latham, being a class traitor to the struggle of the heroic Australian people, says "Yes, Sir!" all crisp and snappy-like.
Sorry piece of shit!
Posted by: Bob Bunnett at March 28, 2004 at 07:34 AMSo here's me and the missus last night watching the film "The Magdallen Sisters" on DVD.
If you haven't seen it, it's a story 'based on true events' (as the saying goes) of some young women in the bad old days of theocratic Ireland. It seems that the Irish Catholic Church ran 'charity wards' for so-called fallen women, exploiting their labor in commercial laundries while the ladies were to do penance for their sins. Punishments were arbitrary, capricious, and extremely severe. It is not a happy story.
Well, I'm watching this and I'm thinking of the Iron Heeled (tm) Coalition freeing millions and millions of Afghani and Iraqi women from superstitious theocrats and sadistic rape rooms.
I would bet you a pint in any pub that most of the people involved in this film and many of its most ardent fans were opposed to and are opposed to the liberation of Afghanistan's and Iraq's women because of who is doing the liberating. Example 1,989,056 of the Left's hypocrisy.
By the way, do you think Condi Rice has an iron purse to go with her iron heeled shoes? I'll bet she looks good in them.
Posted by: JDB at March 28, 2004 at 07:44 AMHey Tim. Didn't you get the order 10 years ago to get rid of these guys? Slacker.
This will go on your report.
I'm off to continue my work on The Nation as soon as I find my iron heels.
Be honest, though. Do the iron heels make me look fat? Just don't see to remember whether to wear brown or black with them.
SMG
Posted by: SteveMG at March 28, 2004 at 07:49 AMYou know, if it's not the Iron Heel of Corporate America it's John Ashcoft's Jackbooted Dissent Crushing Brigades keeping the people down. But fear not! The Left will stomp back with the Birkenstocks of Ex-Hippie Boomer Utopia and the Flip-Flops of John Kerry.
I think we should get into a shin-kicking contest with our opponents.
Posted by: charles austin at March 28, 2004 at 08:54 AMI think we should get into a shin-kicking contest with our opponents.
Nah. They'd hide behind Max Cleland and complain that we are attacking their patriotism.
Posted by: Sortelli at March 28, 2004 at 09:02 AMDoes anyone else find it bizzare that Lane rails against foriegn influence when he precives it is American but wants to quote from an opinion piece in a British magazine as if it were the gospel?
Posted by: Robin Wade at March 28, 2004 at 09:36 AMRobin:
Re "Does anyone else find it bizzare that Lane rails against foriegn influence when he precives it is American but wants to quote from an opinion piece in a British magazine as if it were the gospel?"
Good point. Reminds me of the story about Castro when he took over Cuba in the name of the "Cuban people against foreign forces and figures."
Two days after the overthrow of Batista, up go the statues of Marx, Lenin and Engels.
Some "foreign forces and figures" are more equal than others, I guess.
SMG
Posted by: SteveMG at March 28, 2004 at 10:14 AMA must read for all leftists :
Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee
by Ron Rosenbaum , NEw York observer.
bg
Posted by: chileau at March 28, 2004 at 11:27 AMIraq, Libbya and here's yet another victim of the iron heel! When will this all end? Who's next? Iran?
Posted by: random at March 28, 2004 at 12:18 PMDoes he always write like that? Even if you're his ideological soulmate you'd find that irritating, wouldn't you?
And another thing, if he's going to paraphrase a great American author (even a red like Jack London), he should at the very least give him credit.
Posted by: S.A. Smith at March 28, 2004 at 12:27 PMRobin Wade
Does anyone else find it bizzare that Lane rails against foriegn influence when he precives it is American but wants to quote from an opinion piece in a British magazine as if it were the gospel?Not at all: if it's Left, it's all good. If it's Right, it's unwelcome foreign influence. Posted by: Spiny Norman at March 28, 2004 at 06:18 PM
That's one thing I hate about being a right-winger. These damn iron heels. Look at my torn carpet. The wood floors are in splinters. The noise, it's like hammering nails all day long. It's not easy being right.
Posted by: lyle at March 28, 2004 at 06:19 PMIt seemed like such a great idea.
Just present some arguments, and everyone will be convinced!
I'm much happier wearing the pink fluffy slippers of laissez-faire capitalism, myself.
Posted by: ushie at March 29, 2004 at 01:42 AMNobody was ever crushed by a leftie's Birkenstocks or earth shoes (remember earth shoes?).
The left had a chance with Doc Martens but the neofascists co-opted them.
So it's all with the iron heels and jackboots. Vote for the side with the sturdiest footwear, sez I...
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 29, 2004 at 03:46 AMReading the commentary above, I'm wondering if even one of you understands what the Iron Heel reference actually means.
Doesn't look like it.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at March 29, 2004 at 05:26 PMDid you have some sort of point, Abe?
Doesn't look like it.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 29, 2004 at 08:25 PMHow many times does the left have to be told?
We don't want what your selling. Please leave us alone.
They are worse than telemarketers.
Posted by: Mike at March 29, 2004 at 10:13 PMA tourist was in the Scottish Highlands and stopped in for the night at a quaint inn. He asked the the innkeeper's daughter what was for dinner that night and she replied,"Rrrroast Beef and Rrradishes.
The tourist said,"you sure roll your 'Rse'"
She responded,"only in my iron heels."