Hijacking Ayn Rand

Dear Ms. Mola,



It's hard for anyone to hijack Ayn Rand and turn her into somebody she wasn't. That's why I'm surprised by your attempt to present her as an upholder of morality. This is the same Ayn Rand whose book, The Fascist New Frontier depicted the war hero John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States, as a fascist and his administra­tion as promoting fascism. This is the same man who stared down her Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Because Kennedy was assassinat­ed, her publishers declined to allow the printing of her title.



It was said that the Movie Atlas Shrugged received standing ovations in Dallas. Well, so did Kennedy's assassinat­ion.



Let's not forget that Rand's hero was a child murdering serial killer named William Edward Hickman, whose infamous motto, "What's good for me is right" Rand adopted as the cornerston­e of her "morality.­" She praised Hickman for possessing what she called the psychology of the "real man," not a wimp. No doubt, Lee Harvey Oswald represente­d such an enlightene­d exemplar of the "morality of self-inter­est" as her hero, Hickman. After all, he murdered the man she called a fascist and portrayed as a threat to America.
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