Free Bobby Fischer!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DaShi


He wants to become a god in Canada.

What connection are you attempting to refer to other than the nationality of the thread starter?

[KrazyHorse]

Anyhow, Bobby's a whack job. He broke the law, he goes to jail...

[St Leo]

Against the Law

It's against the law to walk, and against the law to talk
Against the law to loaf, against the law to work
Against the law to read, against the law to write
Against the law to be a black, a brown, or white

Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues

It's against the law to eat, against the law to drink
Against the law to worry, against the law to think
Against the law to marry or try to settle down
Against the law to ramble like a bum from town to town

Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues

It's against the law to come, against the law to go
Against the law to ride, against the law to roll
Against the law to hug and against the law to kiss
Against the law to shoot, against the law to miss

Everything's against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues

It's against the law to gamble, against the law to roam
Against the law to organize or try to build a home
Against the law to sing, it's against the law to dance
Against the law to tell you all the trouble on my hands

Everything in Winston-Salem is against the law
I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues

Throwing people in jail for playing chess (or for accepting money for playing chess) is ridiculous.

Would it be possible for a judge to dismiss this case as frivolous should Fischer be arrested?

[KrazyHorse]

Throwing people in jail for playing chess (or for accepting money for playing chess) is ridiculous.

No it isn't.

[DanS]

As much as I abhor his views, it seems he is being persecuted, perhaps partly because of those views. Is anyone here suggesting that his opinions on 911 or anytning else is reason to imprison him? And if not, why are you making it the issue?

Bobby has been on the wrong side of the law since the early 90s. The feds were after him long before 9/11. Of course, he would have been a more sympathetic character if he hadn't shot off his mouth about 9/11, but even the nasty stuff he said about 9/11 or the Jews is not against the law, AFAIK.

One irony is that what he said would be against the law in many western countries.

[Az]

He's an idiotic loon, though I am not sure what good will jailing him do, besides the very slim deterrence that will stop all professional sportsmen from perfroming in countries under embargo

[Drake Tungsten]

Implying that chess players are "professional sportsmen" is more offensive than anything Fischer said...

[Az]

Is he a professional? yes.

Now comes the question whether he's a sportsman: According to the american definition, AFAIK, hunting and fisching ( ) are sports, so why not chess?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
I guess it is a new platform of the European left that athletes and entertainers are now above the law.

It's just balancing out the platforms of the church and the rightwing that clerics and corporate crooks are above the law.

[TCO]

The interesting thing is that Sava or other wussy Kerry-lovers are quick to endorse sanctions as a tool of policy in apposition to force.

[Sava]

I was going to write a somewhat coherent response detailing the difference between economic/military sanctions and restricting American citizen's right to travel wherever they like, but my words would be lost on the hawkish freedom hating dopes.

but it's nice to know I have "apposition" to force...

I'll save my words for people who have above a 4th grade education.

[Flubber]

based on his past and current anctics there is a pretty good chance that Mr. Fischer suffers from a mental illness. But until that can be established, the system needs to treat him as a competent person and he needs to obey applicable laws. Whether the law in question was sensible or just, he flouted it in a major way-- would not relocating the match have allowed him to comply ??

AS for violating laws generally . . . the fact that a law is repealed is irrelevant . .. it was the law at the time-- Consider its now illegal to transport Canadian cattle acrosss the US border. If someone was caught doing that today and the transport ban was lifted in 3 months, the offender should still face their charges

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Implying that chess players are "professional sportsmen" is more offensive than anything Fischer said...

Offensive to chess players.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Sava
I was going to write a somewhat coherent response detailing the difference between economic/military sanctions and restricting American citizen's right to travel wherever they like, but my words would be lost on the hawkish freedom hating dopes.

but it's nice to know I have "apposition" to force...

I'll save my words for people who have above a 4th grade education.

woo...oosh

[Zoid]

It seems Bobby has been granted an icelandic citizenship.