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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=5828237

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By Linda Sieg

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer's appeal
against a Japanese decision to deport him is likely to be filed next
week after immigration authorities agreed to extend a deadline, a
Canadian advising him said Friday.

Fischer, 61, was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport earlier this month
when he tried to leave for the Philippines on a passport U.S. officials
have said was invalid.

Japanese immigration officials earlier this week rejected Fischer's
initial appeal and he will make a second plea, expected to be finalized
Monday, to Justice Minister Daizo Nozawa, said John Bosnitch, a Tokyo-
based communications consultant and journalist.

"The matter is definitely going to an appeal to the justice minister and
the fact is that Bobby Fischer is going to fight this kidnapping all the
way," Bosnitch told Reuters.

He said immigration officials agreed to extend the deadline for filing
an appeal, which had been midnight Friday.

"There's been some discussion with the immigration people to wait until
Monday to receive all the supporting documents. So I would expect that
the appeal would be finalized by Monday 5:00 p.m. (4 a.m. EDT),"
Bosnitch said.

A Justice Ministry official said the ministry was in the midst of
deportation procedures against Fischer. But the official declined to
give details, citing privacy concerns.

Bosnitch had said earlier that Fischer could delay until the last minute
to avoid a quick rejection of his appeal that might lead to his
immediate deportation to the United States.

Fischer, one of the great eccentrics of the chess world, has been wanted
for arrest in the United States since 1992, when he defied U.S. economic
sanctions on Yugoslavia to play and win a match there against his old
rival, Boris Spassky.

SHY, LIKES SPAS

Fischer, who arrived in Japan in April, maintains his passport was never
properly revoked, according to Bosnitch, who offered to advise Fischer
after he heard that his "boyhood hero" had been detained.

Bosnitch said Thursday that Fischer's supporters were in touch with
several countries about obtaining travel documents so Fischer can avoid
deportation to the United States, where he could face a fine or
imprisonment. He added that Germany was one possibility since Fischer's
father was a German citizen.

Fischer might also file in a Japanese court for an injunction against
deportation, said former Japanese lawmaker Ichiji Ishii, who has offered
to act as Fischer's guarantor should his request for temporary release
from custody be approved.

Miyoko Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association and a friend of
Fischer, said the former chess champion -- whom she described as "very
shy" -- first visited Japan in 2000.

"He likes Japanese spas," she told reporters Thursday.

"It's important that people don't know who he is so he can walk anywhere
he wants and can enjoy his life."

Fischer won the world chess title in 1972, beating Spassky of the Soviet
Union in a victory seen as something of a Cold War propaganda coup for
the United States.

He lost the title in 1975 after his conditions for a match against
Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess
officials. Karpov became champion by default.

Fischer disappeared until the 1992 match against Spassky, whom he again
defeated.

He resurfaced after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to
give an interview to Philippines radio praising the strikes. Fischer,
whose mother was Jewish, has also stirred controversy with anti-Semitic
remarks.

(Additional reporting by Masayuki Kitano)

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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)

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From:

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By Linda Sieg

TOKYO (Reuters) - Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer's appeal
against a Japanese decision to deport him is likely to be filed next
week after immigration authorities agreed to extend a deadline, a
Canadian advising him said Friday.

If it was me, I would want to guard against the possibility of the
German authorities stringing me along until the last moment, then
pulling out and leaving me in the ****, before going off to have a good
laugh with American and Japanese friends at a diplomatic cocktail party.
But I think he's bright enough to be keeping more than one string to his
bow. He seems to have an excellent understanding of the dishonesty of
public officials.

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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)

..
If it was me, I would want to guard against the possibility of the
German authorities stringing me along until the last moment, then
pulling out and leaving me in the ****, before going off to have a good
laugh with American and Japanese friends at a diplomatic cocktail party.
But I think he's bright enough to be keeping more than one string to his
bow. He seems to have an excellent understanding of the dishonesty of
public officials.


Fischer is short on options at this point, and it should be noted that he was
*not smart enough* to stop relying upon his U.S. passport, though he knew he
was a wanted fugitive. He was also *not smart enough* to realize that, unlike
say, Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, Fischer cannot take on a mob, using his awesome
skills in the martial arts to thwart their futile attempts to restrain him....
:-)

"banana" wrote ...

He seems to have an excellent understanding of the dishonesty of public
officials.

But Fischer has no understanding of his own dishonesty, not to mention his
own insanity and hatred of others. After all, this is a man who exulted in
the thousands of horrific deaths at the World Trade Center, and wants all
U.S. Jews rounded up and killed.

Banana, your stupidity and your rationalizing are very scary. Murdering Jews
and other innocents is not defensible. It's people like you who help to make
such enormous tragedies possible, when you refuse to condemn the people who
advocate such horrible things.

Tim Hanke

[...]

If it was me, I would want to guard against the possibility of the
German authorities stringing me along until the last moment,

Dear Fruitcake,

In Germany there are laws against 'hate speech', specifically against
anti-Semitic pronouncements. With a bit of historical knowledge you
might figure out why. You can go to jail for denying the Holocaust,
for example. I don't think Fischer is well advised to go to Germany.

More generally, on any visa application anywhere you will be asked
about your criminal record, and it is no more than due diligence to
spend considerable time deciding whether a person under indictment for
a felony should be admitted.

Jürgen



then
pulling out and leaving me in the ****, before going off to have a good
laugh with American and Japanese friends at a diplomatic cocktail party.
But I think he's bright enough to be keeping more than one string to his
bow. He seems to have an excellent understanding of the dishonesty of
public officials.

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 07:26:00 GMT, (Jürgen R.) wrote:


In Germany there are laws against 'hate speech', specifically against
anti-Semitic pronouncements. With a bit of historical knowledge you
might figure out why. You can go to jail for denying the Holocaust,
for example. I don't think Fischer is well advised to go to Germany.

Excellent point. How much is Fischer paying that legal advisor
anyway?

"Bugsy" wrote in message
m...(to Fifiela):
"Fifiela" wrote in message
...(to Tim Hanke):
I condemn Fischer's statements on 9/11 and Jews.
However, the First Amendment (God Bless It!) protects
the Jerks along with the Rest of Us.

Nope, cannot yell out "FIRE" in a full theatre when there is no Fire.
Neither, can you spew hatred as in 'Hate-Crimes'.

Unlike in Germany, neo-Nazi 'hate speech' seems more or less legally
protected in the United States by its Constitution's First Amendment.

It's worth noting that evidently attempting to inflame prejudice and hatred
against some peoples seems all too fashionable in the United States today
(including as practised by some American writers in the chess newsgroups).

"The incapacity of the United States to see Arabs as other human beings
is consistent with the ebbing of universalism within American society."
--Emmanuel Todd (After the Empire, p. 118)

--Nick