"AMA to get into the directory business now? Well that's not really promoting the hobby very much."
Hmmm...Somehow outsourcing is promoting the hobby??? But if done in house it isn't??? STL you seem to have an ever waffling position depending on the point you’re trying to make.
All this explaining...Bottom line… I guess...in your world...the more money you have the less freedom others must have. So it stands to reason…according to your rational…in the real world… if AMA can get enough money they can obtain a sort of critical mass and eclipse non-AMA hobbyists’ freedoms. At some point all will have to pay the King.