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# Letter: Defending Ayn Rand's Legacy Against Her Self-Proclaimed Followers
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/062307-story/
- Published: 2007-06-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T01:16:30.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By John O. Legreid Santa Monica*

You can expect much support for Robert Moskowitz and his knock of the Ayn Rand mis-speakers (“Reader can’t stand Rand,” June 18). I love Ayn and her legacy greatly. But too many have invaded her domain and, by using her name in vain, they hope to put on some cape of credibility to their shallow perversities.

I figured this out after I had read their first three or four propaganda sheets. Now, I first scan the footnote credits of all your contributors. If I see it is by any one from the Ayn Rand Institute, I take my eyes away. I don’t want such trash infecting my brain.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 23, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)