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Thread ID: 17448 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-03-21
2005-03-21 23:27 | User Profile
"I hope that he will stop cursing the Americans now - it has got him into so much trouble" - Fischer supporter in Iceland
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4370119.stm[/url]
2005-03-21 23:46 | User Profile
Who would have imagined 20 years ago that some hapless guy would be threatened with prison just for playing a game of chess with someone? We live in a wacky screwed up oppressive world.
2005-03-21 23:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Dan Dare]"I hope that he will stop cursing the Americans now - it has got him into so much trouble" - Fischer supporter in Iceland[/QUOTE]
I don't; I hope he keeps running his mouth like an auctioneer on crystal meth. But good for Iceland!
2005-03-24 17:09 | User Profile
washingtonpost.com Japanese Release Bobby Fischer Ex-Chess Champ Heads to Iceland
By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 24, 2005; Page A14
NAGOYA, Japan, March 24 -- Bobby Fischer, the chess legend who feared deportation to face charges in the United States, was freed Thursday by Japanese authorities after eight months in prison, the Justice Ministry said. He left immediately for the airport to fly to Iceland.
The deal to free Fischer came after Iceland -- a chess-loving nation that hosted his historic Cold War-era victory over the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in 1972 -- granted Fischer citizenship this week in a move to help him avoid trial in the United States. Fischer, 62, who grew up in New York, has dodged a U.S. arrest warrant since playing a chess match in Yugoslavia in 1992 in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Fischer left a detention center on the outskirts of Tokyo accompanied by Miyoko Watai, a women's chess champion in Japan, and an Icelandic official, news services reported. "I won't be free until I get out of Japan. This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi," the Associated Press quoted him as saying at the airport, referring to President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. His flight left soon afterward.
Fischer evaded U.S. authorities for more than a decade with the help of chess fans from Argentina to the Philippines, who offered him shelter even as he stepped into public view on occasion to offer scathing anti-American and anti-Jewish rants. He was finally nabbed in July at an airport outside Tokyo for traveling on a voided U.S. passport.
Fischer's violation of U.S. sanctions was not considered an extraditable offense in Japan. American authorities instead had counted on Japanese laws mandating deportation of persons detained for traveling on false documents to their countries of citizenship.
Fischer had tried various maneuvers to block his return, including seeking refugee status, renouncing his U.S. citizenship and announcing plans to marry Watai.
But he found success in Iceland, where, at his request, the parliament honored his "historic connection" with the tiny island nation, voting 40 to 0 Monday to grant him citizenship. The move came despite U.S. protests. "Mr. Fischer is a true Icelander now," the country's ambassador to Japan, Thordur Oskarsson, told reporters in Tokyo.
Japan agreed to allow Fischer to travel to his adopted homeland as long as he withdrew a lawsuit against the Japanese government seeking to block his deportation. John Bosnitch of the Tokyo-based Committee to Free Bobby Fischer said Wednesday that Fischer would do so.
The case had become an irritation for Japan, with Fischer alleging -- falsely, according to the Japanese -- that he had been physically abused by his captors. A Japanese official familiar with the case said the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo had been informed that Fischer would be freed.
Fischer's deep resentment of the United States is well known. He has said he regards it as part of the "global Jewish conspiracy," despite the fact that his mother was Jewish. He had insisted that U.S. officials were persecuting him for his political beliefs.
U.S. officials have suggested they may file tax evasion charges against Fischer, who has said he has not paid U.S. taxes in years. Such charges, U.S. officials say, may fall under extraditable crimes in Iceland.
é 2005 The Washington Post Company [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60087-2005Mar23?language=printer[/url]
Maybe Congress can reconvene to deal with this "crisis". :glare:
2005-03-25 16:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe] I hope he keeps running his mouth like an auctioneer on crystal meth.[/QUOTE]
Kevin, apparently Mr Fischer plans to keep his mouth running. The latest here in today's news:
[QUOTE][B]More anti-Semitic remarks[/B]
Fischer was defiant when he arrived with his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, at the Tokyo airport after being released. As he walked toward the airport entrance, he turned, unzipped his pants and acted as if he was going to urinate on the wall. He called Japanââ¬â¢s ruling party ââ¬Ågangsters.ââ¬Â
[SIZE=3][B]Fischer, whose mother was Jewish, also said he was being hounded by the United States because it is ââ¬ÅJew-controlled.ââ¬Â[/B][/SIZE]
Fischer also took a few shots at President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
ââ¬ÅThis was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi,ââ¬Â he told reporters.
[B][SIZE=3]"They are war criminals and should be hung,ââ¬Â[/SIZE] [/B] he said in an apparent criticism of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
ââ¬ÅKoizumi is mentally ill in my opinion,ââ¬Â he said, calling him a ââ¬Åstooge."
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7266699/[/url] [/QUOTE]
This guy rules!!
2005-03-25 16:40 | User Profile
Hell, I don't know whom to cheer for in this story: the deranged chess-playing Jew, or the jack-booted American globalist thugs chasing him. It's a tough choice. :unsure:
2005-03-26 14:20 | User Profile
S,
The Japan Times
Defiant Fischer flies off to Iceland
NARITA, Chiba Pref. (AP) Chess legend Bobby Fischer walked free Thursday from a Japanese detention center and immediately got on a plane for his new home, Iceland, ending a nine-month standoff with Tokyo officials who were trying to deport him to the United States.
Fischer, sporting a long, gray beard, jeans and a baseball cap pulled down low over his face, left the immigration detention center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, early Thursday morning.
Japanese immigration officials took the chess icon into custody in July, when he tried to leave the country by using an invalid U.S. passport.
As he was taken Thursday to the airport in a black limousine provided by the Icelandic Embassy, his vehicle was mobbed by a few dozen immigration officials, photographers and reporters.
Fischer was accompanied by his fiancee, Miyoko Watai -- head of Japan's chess association -- and Iceland's ambassador to Japan, Thordur Oskarsson. Fischer and Watai caught an afternoon flight to Denmark en route to Iceland.
Fischer was characteristically defiant as he arrived at the airport and spoke briefly to reporters.
"I won't be free until I get out of Japan. This was not an arrest. It was a kidnapping cooked up by Bush and Koizumi," he said, referring to U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "They are war criminals and should be hung."
As he walked toward the airport entrance, he turned, unzipped his pants and acted like he was going to urinate on the wall.
Fischer, detained since his arrest, claims his U.S. passport was illegally revoked and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match there against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992.
This week, Iceland's legislature stepped in to break the standoff, giving Fischer citizenship. Iceland is where he won the world championship in 1972, defeating Spassky in a classic Cold War showdown that propelled him to international stardom.
Fischer, 62, could still face extradition to the United States -- Iceland, like Japan, has an extradition treaty with Washington.
Ambassador Oskarsson had said before Fischer's release that Washington sent a "message of disappointment" to the Icelandic government over giving Fischer citizenship.
"Despite the message, the decision was put through Parliament on humanitarian grounds," Oskarsson said.
Asked Thursday why he thought the United States had pursued him for so long, Fischer replied, "It's a Jew-controlled country," and launched into an anti-Semitic tirade.
The Japan Times: March 25, 2005 (C) All rights reserved [url]http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050325a2.htm[/url] ============= [QUOTE]Fischer, detained since his arrest, claims his U.S. passport was illegally revoked and sued to block a deportation order to the United States, where he is wanted for [U]violating sanctions[/U] imposed on the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition match there against Russian Boris Spassky in 1992.[/QUOTE] This is being selectively applied. If they really gave a damn about sanctions they would go after Cheney over his dealings with Iran. I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored.
2005-03-27 00:28 | User Profile
Isn't the President/Prime Minister of Iceland married to a Jewess? Strange deal there..
2005-03-27 01:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]S,
I too, have mixed emotions about this. I reckon I'm happy despite some of Fischer's stupid comments in the past for I absolutely dispise this government we have today. Fischer certainly does seem to do and say some stupid things occasionally, as well as the smart ones. But he also seems to be able to provoke his enemies into being even stupider. Maybe the Icelandese remember that enduring lesson about Fischer's underlying brilliance, at least the method to his madness, from 1972 ===========
This is being selectively applied. If they really gave a damn about sanctions they would go after Cheney over his dealings with Iran. I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored.[/QUOTE]It sure is. And it proves Fischer right. Why wouldn't any normal government care beans about what a harmless eccentric globe-trotting chess player says? Unless there's a strong element of truth in his words?
Fischer always had a streak for just hating despotism, taking it on, and winning. He did that first with the Russians, and now with the Americans. Interesting commentary on how the face and abiding place of tyranny has shifted since 1972.
2005-03-27 04:33 | User Profile
i like fischer. ive read a few of his interviews, and i gotta say agree with him or not you dont have to parse his sentences.