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Is this where our dues are going? http://www.planning.org/features/2003/chinawebsite.htm
Are we still the American Planning Association or have we branched out in to the only communist country of any size left on the face of the earth. I have no problem with outreach and establishing friendly ties to friendly countries, but does anyone here really believe that RED China is friendly? I recall an incident not to long ago where they forced an airplane out of international airspace and held its crew hostage until we apologized for flying in international airspace. This is the same government that has political prisoners in sweatshops and makes your happy meal toys with convict labor. This is a government that kills dissenters. This is a government that is a clear and present danger to my country - and your's also Oz & NZ.
The costs of developing this "commie planner" web site could not have been cheap. Instead of traveling to China so often, spending my dues on impressing their fellow workers, and trying to translate NIMBY* in Cantonese, might I suggest the APA spend some of that money to travel to a state or city chapter meeting now and then? I’d like to think the dues my employer pays might be best spent helping me plan right here in a free country.
* It is really the entire collective's back yard.
Are we still the American Planning Association or have we branched out in to the only communist country of any size left on the face of the earth. I have no problem with outreach and establishing friendly ties to friendly countries, but does anyone here really believe that RED China is friendly? I recall an incident not to long ago where they forced an airplane out of international airspace and held its crew hostage until we apologized for flying in international airspace. This is the same government that has political prisoners in sweatshops and makes your happy meal toys with convict labor. This is a government that kills dissenters. This is a government that is a clear and present danger to my country - and your's also Oz & NZ.
The costs of developing this "commie planner" web site could not have been cheap. Instead of traveling to China so often, spending my dues on impressing their fellow workers, and trying to translate NIMBY* in Cantonese, might I suggest the APA spend some of that money to travel to a state or city chapter meeting now and then? I’d like to think the dues my employer pays might be best spent helping me plan right here in a free country.
* It is really the entire collective's back yard.