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I really appreciate the information and links provided. Here is the letter I just send Lands' End:

"Dear Lands' End,

I have shopped with your company for many years. I am dismayed that you are now engaging in political advocacy through your catalogue and website. Rob Reiner is a left-wing political advocate (are you aware he engineered Al Gore's speech earlier this year criticizing our Commander-in Chief?) and the organization for which you are soliciting funds is an extremely liberal organization. It is *not merely a charity* which helps children. If you read the information you have linked to your own website, the I Am Your Child organization advocates *increasing public funding* for things like child care and preschool. "Public funding" translates to tax dollars. My husband and I work a total of three jobs in order to care for our four children at home *ourselves*, and Mr. Reiner's organization advocates making it even harder for us to raise our own children by taking away more of our hard-earned cash to give it to others -- this is socialism, in a nutshell. I pay for my preschooler to go to preschool -- why take away my money to send someone *else's* child to preschool? You may say, "It's just a dollar or two," but a bit here and a bit there for social programs adds up to an incredibly heavy tax burden on the average working family. I am very unhappy that you are soliciting donations for a liberal organization that *attacks*, rather than supports, the American family. I will be watching your company's future conduct in this regard and make my buying decisions accordingly. You owe your customers an apology."

Thank you for taking the time to write. I didn't want to know this about Lands' End - or their owner, Sears. Sigh. The left's rent-a-mob bullies regularly threaten whatever "evil corporation" is deemed the latest enemy #1...and it becomes front page news around the world thanks to their PR agents at AP, etc. It's cheaper to cave rather than stand up to the press, trial lawyers and judges. Based on their responses to Freeper letters, Lands' End clearly sides with Rob Reiner...and not with their non-socialist customers.

If we can't put the "world's #1 internet clothing retailer" on the front page of the world's newspapers for hiring a socialist to push family values at Christmastime in America...maybe Rush, Sean, Prowler, Drudge, etc., can.

Conservative Megalinks.