I just tried to use the phone number. There was a recording saying that business hours were Mon-Fri 8 to 8 and to leave a message, followed by about 5 seconds of hold music, followed by a recording saying that it did not hear my selection and I should dial my party's extension, blah blah blah. Basically the runaround, don't bother till Monday if at all. Writing or stopping by in person is better anyway.
Here's what I sent:
"Dear Sir or Madam:
I was dismayed to find recently that K-mart will continue to use profits made from my purchases to pay Rosie O-Donnell to shill for your stores. Not only is Ms. O'Donnell even more insultingly foolish and ignorant than the average entertainer, a grand accomplishment of no mean difficulty requiring years of dedication and hard work, but she recently advocated that thousands of your customers be thrown in jail and/or have the merchandise they've purchased from your stores stolen by their own families.
Ms. O'Donnell's exact words on her inexplicably popular TV show were that anyone who owns guns should be sent to prison. Let us put aside for the moment the fact that this would essentially mean that to follow the highest law of America, the Constitution of our nation, would become a crime in the United States. More to the point, your store SELLS guns to its customers. How exactly does your management reconcile those two facts? I cannot.
Ms. O'Donnell also stated on television that women should steal their husbands' guns while the husbands are at work in order to turn them in to the police. I will touch only briefly on Ms. O'Donnell's insultingly sexist implication that only men own and use guns; its stupidity should be obvious. I will likewise mention only in passing the stupidity of her belief that the police would somehow wish to accept a gun which has been stolen from one's spouse--does she think the police department is the usual fence for stolen goods? Perhaps in New York, but not my town. The real issue is that Ms. O'Donnell is urging her female viewers to commit a Class-A felony. Prison time is almost assured if the other party presses charges. More importantly, she is advocating that these felonies be committed against your customers. Do you, or do you not support your customers? Are customers actually valued at K-mart, or are they simply the means for cash to travel from a bank account to your cash registers?
Finally, if Ms. O'Donnell advocated that gays be put in prison, would she still be your spokeswoman? If she told an interviewer that since blacks commit more crimes by percentage they should be imprisoned simply for being black, would she still be making such a lucrative paycheck at your expense? I would fire her in a heartbeat for such statements, but then again I would fire her for advocating that my customers be imprisoned without trial or charges. I'm odd that way. I await your response. I hope there will be one. You can also reach me at (309)457-3405.
Don Gwinn
dgwinn@monm.edu
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6297"
Too much?
[This message has been edited by Gwinnydapooh (edited May 01, 1999).]