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FISCHER VIOLATED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER

Bobby spat on a presidential executive order and defied a
trade embargo in 1992 for playing Spassky who returned
to France with no problem. More power to Bobby for that
act of asserting human autonomy and economic freedom
against an overweening central regime. -- Larry Parr

Now for the facts.

1. The UN passed an embargo on Yugoslavia, in response
to the escalating conflict there.
2. The US complied with the UN embargo, as all UN
member nations were supposed to. The method used to
enact the sanctions was perfectly routine. Neither the method used
(President Bush declaring the embargo in accordance with
laws enacted by Congress) nor the fact of the embargo
were controversial.
3. The US informed Fischer prior to the match that it would violate the
law.
4. Fischer publicly declared his intention to violate the law.
5. Fischer, not having renounced American citizenship and
in fact traveling on an American passport, did violate the law.

It is hard to imagine any legal theory under which
*not* indicting Fischer would have made sense. (Parr seems
to have some bizarre theory related to laziness in the French
justice department - thankfully he has spared us a full
articulation of that nonsense.)

One does not expect the anti-democratic Parr to have
even a rudimentary understanding of democracy and
we find our expectations fulfilled. And, of course, who
really cares about a few hundred dead Croats? It's the
price per chess game that Fischer could fetch with his
exhibition that is *really* important.