In article , Graeme
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(Parrthenon) wrote in message news:20040718205627.16825.00001
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Has it occurred to you that the reason that nobody else has violated
this may be because they were in *fear* of the consequences, and were
*dissuaded* by the knowledge that, if they were charged, they
themselves wouldn't have a cadre of fans ready to rubber stamp any
wrongdoing that they might commit?

The USCF did violate it.

It is a political act by our government.

As an opinion, this is not *untrue* exactly, but it's certainly
misleading to try to imply that this ruling was made to "get" Bobby
Fischer, when in fact it was made before he ever violated it.

Why did the US authorities renew Bobby Fischer's passport in 1997?

When he demands 10 wins and a
tie clause for the '75 match, or he's not playing, he never took his
case to the USCF membership.

Why should he have done?

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Sorry, I know this is a bit ad hominem,

As if the rest wasn't.

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We can talk about abolishing this
unjust Executive Order thingy later, but Fischer has to take the hit
in order to make this protest you've assigned to him have any meaning.

Parrthenon didn't 'assign a protest' to Fischer. He gave his own view.

I thought he got nabbed for using an invalid passport a full 7 years
after it had expired.

You're wrong. The US authorities claim (lyingly IMO) that they revoked
it in December 2003. Nobody has claimed that Fischer himself was
informed at that time, or at any time before he got to Narita airport
last week. He entered Japan on the passport in April 2004 and cleared
immigration, no problem.

His passport was renewed at the US embassy in Berne, Switzerland, in
1997. They didn't revoke it - they *renewed* it, no problem. They didn't
hypocritically wave their hands about saying what a great criminal he
was. (And it would have been hypocritical, because no proceedings had
been taken against the USCF for sanctions-busting). That was before the
first radio interview, you see. So, the US authorities *are* just
'picking and choosing' according to what they feel like. Or will you
find some ground for arguing that both the renewal and revokation were
motivated by the same zeal for the law, the same selfless people-serving
by public officials?

The hypocrisy of this guy never ceases to amaze
me. Even after all his Death to America and support for 911 ranting,
he was still travelling around on a US passport.

Maybe it was his only option.

A bogus one, at that.

It wasn't bogus. You cannot seriously say that if a person's passport is
revoked without his knowledge, and then he shows it at a border
crossing, he's acting dishonestly or criminally - he obviously isn't.
How do you know your own passport hasn't been revoked without your
knowledge? By definition, you don't. Do you call up at every
border-crossing, just to verify that it hasn't been revoked?

--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)