On Aug 26, 1:57 am, Eustace wrote:

There appears to be a complete disconnect from
reality here. Fact: even if Bobby Fischer were to be
pardoned, he would still never come back to the
USA on account of the back taxes, plus penalties
and interest owed to the IRS. All this moaning and
groaning about "rights" makes me want to vomit; a
U.S. citizen has obligations as well as rights, and
one of the most annoying of these is our obligation
to pay taxes; in fact, it is so annoying that it is
difficult to imagine even the die-hard Fischerites
trying to stomach a "pardon" from the IRS, so the
rest of us taxpayers can bear Mr. Fischer's fair
share on his behalf. It's obvious that reality has
been thrown out the window, right along with the
bathwater and the now-busted Damiano's Defense.

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On this issue you are clearly irrational if not prejudiced

Nonsense. You obviously have not yet read NIC
or ECO where the bust is shown quite convincingly.


(I hope at
least not of the Zionist kind),

The pictures I have seen of the Middle East make it
look desolate, barren except along rivers, and far too
rocky for my tastes; I would hardly adopt a Zionist
attitude with regard to such an area as that; look at
New Zealand, Panama, or Tuscany -- those are places
worth "zionizing" over.


and I generally avoid wasting my time
arguing in such cases - I have more constructive things to do - I will,
however, attempt to reason with you on a minor point: For Fischer
himself the main importance of a pardon would be that he would be free
to travel to countries other than the US.

You sound convinced that Iceland has not given
BF an Icelandic passport; that is odd.


Do you disagree with this?

Certainly. Look, the USA may control the air, the
seas, and what's left of the ground militarily, but by
no means are we the only country which can print
a passport. But still, he would not dare travel to any
country where he is wanted for past crimes -- that's
the price you pay for evading taxes and so forth. As
Bobby Fischer once put it: "to get squares, to gotta
give squares".


I suppose that you may disagree in this too, but in this case at least I
will have to admit that there is a small possibility that you are right.

You don't "have to admit" anything. If you wish, you
may consider the Damiano's to be perfectly playable,
Bobby Fischer to be an innocent victim of tyrants,
the King's Gambit to be busted, and so forth. Just
understand this one thing: the IRS is not a fantasy!
It is very real, and as Alphonse Capone discovered,
there is no easy escape from its evil grasp. If you
must try to deny something inevitable, try death --
at least then you might have a fighting chance.


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