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Got another AARP recruitment letter.

DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
Here's the response I sent them:


Greetings:

Thank you for sending me a letter inviting me to join AARP. However, I have no desire or intention of becoming part of your socialist organization. I believe in the Constitution, liberty and personal freedom therefore I am opposed to virtually everything the AARP advocates.

I shall continue to oppose liberalism wherever I encounter it because liberalism is detrimental to the American way of life and suffocates individual freedom. That means I must oppose AARP to my dying breath.

I do appreciate your sending me a postage-paid envelope so that I can respond to your recruitment letter at no cost to myself. My greatest hope is that AARP and all like-minded liberal groups should vanish from the face of the Earth.
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Too old to live...too young to die...
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  • HavegunJoeHavegunJoe Member Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good job! That's what I think of them too.
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  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022 ✭
    edited November -1
    That sums it up pretty well. They'll never see me as a member.
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  • RtWngExtrmstRtWngExtrmst Member Posts: 7,456
    edited November -1
    Good Job! Thank you.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They sent me a PRE-PAID return address label First class Mail In 1984. I took a cardboard Box and filled with 63 pounds of gravels from my drive way with a letter inside. to them . Have not gotten any mail since. [^]
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  • Duce1Duce1 Member Posts: 9,329
    edited November -1
    Been there, done that. And just wait , you will get another letter about the same thing in a month, and then another and another. They make good fire starters, I know.
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  • ManygunsManyguns Member Posts: 3,837
    edited November -1
    I sent them a similar letter years ago. Piss on 'em.
    Tom
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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,043 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you are looking at this the wrong way. It's much easyer being a 'rabble rouser' from inside the organisation. [;)]
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  • torosapotorosapo Member Posts: 4,946
    edited November -1
    My neighbor keeps trying to tell me I'll get cheaper car ins. thru them. I tell I don't want any part of that organization. She just doesn't understand. NO means No
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  • hunter86004hunter86004 Member Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I signed up with them, got a really good deal on car, homeowner, and life insurance. Too good to pass up, but never renewed.
    I think I'm costing them more in their mailings than my original membership.
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have gotten letters and stuff from them a few times in the past year or so.

    I just throw it away...no skin off my nose. I'm not much of a "joiner".
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    If you tape that envelope to a cement block, does the postal service have to deliver it?
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Doc
    Here's the response I sent them:


    Greetings:

    Thank you for sending me a letter inviting me to join AARP. However, I have no desire or intention of becoming part of your socialist organization. I believe in the Constitution, liberty and personal freedom therefore I am opposed to virtually everything the AARP advocates.

    I shall continue to oppose liberalism wherever I encounter it because liberalism is detrimental to the American way of life and suffocates individual freedom. That means I must oppose AARP to my dying breath.

    I do appreciate your sending me a postage-paid envelope so that I can respond to your recruitment letter at no cost to myself. My greatest hope is that AARP and all like-minded liberal groups should vanish from the face of the Earth.

    [:)][:)][:)]Good on ya, Doc.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Rock on, Doc[:D]
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    My 25 year old sister-in-law gets letters from the AARP. Not sure how she ended up on their list.
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [^]
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Doc,
    If you look up the CEO of AARP and address the letter to him he will respond. I did three years ago and got a very politely worded letter in return basically telling me that the anti-gun stance of AARP will stay and go pound sand if you don't like it......
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I get those invitations from AARP I load a bunch or washers into the postage-paid envelope to make it nice and heavy and send it back.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Doc, good letter. I hope you kept a copy because they will write to you once or twice a month from now on.

    I don't know if they just don't read them or they are good at ignoring them by now. Either way they keep sending the letters.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saved up at least 25 of their envelopes and sent them back all at the same time. Figured the USPS needed the $$$.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always sent them back with a note saying that when they changed their stance on firearms I MIGHT think about joining.
    Always send them in the postage free envelope.

    Don't get any now [:)]
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not familiar with their position on guns. I'm just pissed they think I'm old enough to play with them.

    I ain't old yet!

    I'm, um, well, sort of "well seasoned", "mature for my years" and possibly even "wiser than I look old enough to be".

    That's my story and I'm stick'n to it!

    Lousy rat bastids calling me old ...
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    AARP wants all guns banned.
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    Too old to live...too young to die...
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,241 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Next one i get I'm gonna load it up with a bunch of the stuff the NRA sends me and shoot it back to 'em.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Found this:
    http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/chapter12.pdf

    AARP's 2000 Public Policy Agenda, Chapter 12. Calls for Federal regulation of handguns, waiting periods, assault weapons ban.

    Found this:
    http://www.nraila.org/issues/factsheets/read.aspx?id=15

    That's an NRA / ILA list of organizations, celebrities, news media and corporations with anti-gun rights agendas or histories.

    AARP's online encyclopedia entry on Gun control:
    http://healthtools.aarp.org/galecontent/gun-control

    AARP's current Public Policy web page:
    http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/policies/

    AARP's latest policy statement on Gun Control is from 2008. The text is quite brief:
    http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/legpolicy/2008/Chapter12.pdf

    The relevant text reads:
    "Congress should eliminate gaps in and strengthen enforcement of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and other federal gun laws.

    States should enact legislation to eliminate gaps in and strengthen enforcement of federal and state gun laws, particularly with regard to possession by juveniles, convicted domestic abusers, and those under domestic violence restraining orders."
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ChrisInTempe: "AARP's latest policy statement on Gun Control is from 2008. The text is quite brief:"

    I only found: "La p?gina no exist"
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
    ChrisInTempe: "AARP's latest policy statement on Gun Control is from 2008. The text is quite brief:"
    I only found: "La p?gina no exist"


    Apparently a GB problem handling the address. When I highlight it and copy it, I can paste it into my browser and it opens. Let's see what happens if I leave off the "http://" part:

    assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/legpolicy/2008/Chapter12.pdf

    Edited -
    Well it is less busted, but still busted. Highlight the entire line above, copy and paste into your browser.
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bottom line: AARP has been and continues to be very anti 2A and supports every socialist plan that comes down the pike.
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    Too old to live...too young to die...
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    Found this:
    http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/chapter12.pdf

    AARP's 2000 Public Policy Agenda, Chapter 12. Calls for Federal regulation of handguns, waiting periods, assault weapons ban.

    Found this:
    http://www.nraila.org/issues/factsheets/read.aspx?id=15

    That's an NRA / ILA list of organizations, celebrities, news media and corporations with anti-gun rights agendas or histories.

    AARP's online encyclopedia entry on Gun control:
    http://healthtools.aarp.org/galecontent/gun-control

    AARP's current Public Policy web page:
    http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/policies/

    AARP's latest policy statement on Gun Control is from 2008. The text is quite brief:
    http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_/articles/legpolicy/2008/Chapter12.pdf

    The relevant text reads:
    "Congress should eliminate gaps in and strengthen enforcement of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and other federal gun laws.

    States should enact legislation to eliminate gaps in and strengthen enforcement of federal and state gun laws, particularly with regard to possession by juveniles, convicted domestic abusers, and those under domestic violence restraining orders."
    reading those makes me want to puke.[:(!][:(!]
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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