Help! Need Best Way to Stop Pinko Harrassment

self ^ | 11/24/03 | Let's Roll

[Let's Roll]

Even though all my friends, family and acquaintances know of my conservative politcs, someone has purchased a subscription to "Mother Jones" in my name.

For those of you unfamiliar with this lefty, pinko publication, it features such well-known purveyors of joy and optimism as Molly Ivins.

Despite repeated politely worded requests to MJ customer service asking who I may thank for this "gift", I have been stonewalled. Not even an auto response answer.

Frankly, I'm embarrassed to even have my letter carrier witness my name on this magazine as it does not come in a plain brown wrapper.

This malice needs to be punished so I hope that some clever FReepers will know how I can make my disgust, outrage etc. known in the most devastating - but legal - way. Help! Someone deserves a roasting.

[Let's Roll]

Help me defend myself against these creeps. If I could afford it, the entire MJ editorial staff would already be receiving subscriptions to "The National Review", "The Weekly Standard" and WSJ.

[dead]

Just slap a label with "Return to Sender" written on it over your address.

After they have to keep paying the return postage, they'll stop sending it.

[ElkGroveDan]

Keep it. I don't know about you, but I like to know what the opposition is thinking. Think of it as an educational experience and read it cover to cover, I sure would.

[TomServo]

Bwahahahaha..C'mon - it's a funny gag. I once subscribed a socialist to 'The Limbaugh Letter'.

[Billthedrill]

Just cancel it. If you do have a suspect, I'd consider sending him/her/them subscriptions to The New American Spectator. Sure antidote.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

My thoughts exactly.

[GingisK]

Aw, fight the battle! Get each of them a membership in the NRA or a subscription to the Libertarian Party's magazine. There are also supscriptions to magazines from the Constitution Party, Cato Institute .. or whatever.

Then challenge them that you will read "theirs" if they read "yours". Schedule a debate. We'll attend.

[Semper Paratus]

The worst part is you're going start getting Dean mailers.

[So Cal Rocket]

Hit them in the pocketbook, 37 cents at a time. Take out those inserts in the magazine (those annoying little cards you fill out to subscribe), fill them out with fake names and addresses and send them in - with the "postage paid" it costs them to get them back in the mail.

[TheBigB]

Dean is far too conservative for MJ people. They're either Kucinichites or Naderites.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Send them this Picture of Conspiracy Guy. Just outside Area 51 on a mission to go in and free Elvis.

[TexasCajun]

Do unto Others...

Subscriptions to the NRA and Rush Limbaugh for your liberal friends seem like good suggestions to me.

[steve8714]

Urinate in it first, then return to sender.
Oh, wait, did I post that or was I just thinking it?

[Warren]

Easy, get rid of pinko's.

[easonc52]

Contact Us:
Mother Jones Magazine
731 Market Street
6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel. 415.665.6637
fax. 415.665.6696
e-mail backtalk@motherjones.com

Have fun...

[MineralMan]

"Even though all my friends, family and acquaintances know of my conservative politcs, someone has purchased a subscription to "Mother Jones" in my name. "

Here's another thought: Mother Jones gives itself away to a lot of companies for use as a freebie inducement. Salon.com, for example. So, if you signed up for Salon, you got a free sub. to MJ as a bonus.

I've seen other deals where MJ was offered as a bonus. Maybe you signed up for something, and didn't read the fine print. Not everything that happens is due to someone else's actions.

[1stFreedom]

Call them up and use your friends name -- tell them the last issue didn't arrive and verify the address they have. Repeat this till you hit paydirt!

Odds are, one of your friends/family is a subscriber and feels like if you just read it you'd change.

Then send them a gift subscription of National Review!

[MainFrame65]

First, check the label for an expiration date. I don't know what a subscription costs, but it might represent a few dollars.

Second, write to them cancelling the subscription and requesting a refund due to your objection to editorial content.

Third, if that doesn't work, send in a change of address to have it forwarded to your favorite - or unfavorite - politician. After all, you have only invested the cost of a couple of stamps.

[vladog]

Visit you local post office and tell them you do not want the rag in your mail delivery.

You really should attempt to find out by what ever means who signed you up for this rag. Then you can figure out how to get one up. (Note: Getting even is not good enough, you must get at least one up)

[CrazyIvan]

About ten years ago I lived alone in the middle of nowhere (we right wing crazies always do). Several times I would return home to find someone had driven the half mile of private road back to my place to put some pinko pamphlet on my door. I finally figured out about how often they came around and took he last issue and put a ragged 12 guage hole through it, then hung it back up with the note "Sorry I MISSED you. Better luck next time". Never got another.