[So Masako Suzuki has advised him to apply for asylum in Japan. This may
perhaps be a sensible move, to create more time to seek asylum
successfully in a country where the authorities are less willing to act
as running-dogs of the US.

Note that Fischer is being kept in the vicinity of smokers. This would
be against the prison rules in England. I recall when the UK authorities
put former SIS (MI6) officer Richard Tomlinson in a cell with a nutcase,
in an attempt to 'soften him up' a bit, to weaken his resolve, he
managed to get the nutcase some tobacco, and when the nutcase had filled
the room with tobacco smoke, made a complaint and got the screws to move
him to another cell.

Fischer is being deprived of fresh air, exercise, and sunlight and is
being made to inhale tobacco smoke. And nobody has seriously suggested
he has committed any crime in Japan, since his passport was revoked
behind his back and his landing rights were revoked retrospectively.

Is he going to be handcuffed and frogmarched onto a US flight today? We
shall see...

If there is a gap between the announcement of a negative result today
and the actual handover of the prisoners to US thugs, supporters should
do their utmost to step up the pressure.

banana]



***BEGIN ARTICLE***

Monday, August 2, 2004 3:09 PM

Ex-chess champ Fischer to appeal Japan deportation

TOKYO- Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by the United
States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, will finalize an appeal on
Monday against a decision by the Japanese authorities to deport him, his
supporters said.

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

Fischer, who arrived in Japan in April, maintains that his passport was
never properly revoked, and his supporters said U.S. officials took the
action retroactively.

"He walked in the country, got stamped in legally with a visa," Tokyo-
based Canadian communications consultant John Bosnitch, who has been
advising Fischer, told Reuters, adding that the U.S. authorities had
suddenly notified Japanese officials in June that Fischer's passport had
become invalid.

His Japanese lawyer, Masako Suzuki, said she would file an appeal later
on Monday. She has filed a second request for Fischer's provisional
release after an earlier request was rejected.

In a bid to avoid imminent deportation, Suzuki said she has advised
Fischer to file for political asylum in Japan. An individual cannot be
deported until a decision on whether to grant refugee status has been
handed down.

The controversial former chess champion has been wanted in the United
States since 1992, when he defied U.S. economic sanctions against
Yugoslavia to play a chess match there against his old rival Boris
Spassky.

Bosnitch criticized the conditions under which Fischer was being held,
saying the non-smoking Fischer had been kept inside a cell where others
around him smoke freely.

"He has had no fresh air, no exercise, no sunlight and (is) smoked out
all day," Bosnitch said.

A former Japanese lawmaker and chess aficionado, Ichiji Ishii, has
offered to act as Fischer's guarantor if he is released while his appeal
continues.

Reuters

***END ARTICLE***

--
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)

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:21:21 +0100, banana
wrote:

[So Masako Suzuki has advised him to apply for asylum in Japan. This may
perhaps be a sensible move, to create more time to seek asylum
successfully in a country where the authorities are less willing to act
as running-dogs of the US.

Your wording suggests North Korea.

Note that Fischer is being kept in the vicinity of smokers. This would
be against the prison rules in England. I recall when the UK authorities
put former SIS (MI6) officer Richard Tomlinson in a cell with a nutcase,
in an attempt to 'soften him up' a bit, to weaken his resolve, he
managed to get the nutcase some tobacco, and when the nutcase had filled
the room with tobacco smoke, made a complaint and got the screws to move
him to another cell.

A good technique for dealing with these tough, totalitarian regimes.
They aren't the only ones who can play hardball.

Fischer is being deprived of fresh air, exercise, and sunlight and is
being made to inhale tobacco smoke. And nobody has seriously suggested
he has committed any crime in Japan, since his passport was revoked
behind his back and his landing rights were revoked retrospectively.

Is he going to be handcuffed and frogmarched onto a US flight today? We
shall see...

If there is a gap between the announcement of a negative result today
and the actual handover of the prisoners to US thugs,

Conventional usage is "jackbooted thugs".

In article , Mike Murray
writes

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:21:21 +0100, banana
wrote:

[So Masako Suzuki has advised him to apply for asylum in Japan. This may
perhaps be a sensible move, to create more time to seek asylum
successfully in a country where the authorities are less willing to act
as running-dogs of the US.

Your wording suggests North Korea.

Note that Fischer is being kept in the vicinity of smokers. This would
be against the prison rules in England. I recall when the UK authorities
put former SIS (MI6) officer Richard Tomlinson in a cell with a nutcase,
in an attempt to 'soften him up' a bit, to weaken his resolve, he
managed to get the nutcase some tobacco, and when the nutcase had filled
the room with tobacco smoke, made a complaint and got the screws to move
him to another cell.

A good technique for dealing with these tough, totalitarian regimes.
They aren't the only ones who can play hardball.

What 'tough, totalitarian regimes' are you talking about?

(Not that I imagine you're using any of these three words with much
thought).

--
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)

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:23:06 +0100, banana
wrote:

In article , Mike Murray
writes

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:21:21 +0100, banana
wrote:

[So Masako Suzuki has advised him to apply for asylum in Japan. This may
perhaps be a sensible move, to create more time to seek asylum
successfully in a country where the authorities are less willing to act
as running-dogs of the US.

Your wording suggests North Korea.

Note that Fischer is being kept in the vicinity of smokers. This would
be against the prison rules in England. I recall when the UK authorities
put former SIS (MI6) officer Richard Tomlinson in a cell with a nutcase,
in an attempt to 'soften him up' a bit, to weaken his resolve, he
managed to get the nutcase some tobacco, and when the nutcase had filled
the room with tobacco smoke, made a complaint and got the screws to move
him to another cell.

A good technique for dealing with these tough, totalitarian regimes.
They aren't the only ones who can play hardball.

What 'tough, totalitarian regimes' are you talking about?

How about France during the Algerian war? Or the "Islamic Holy War"
group after it had captured Buckley in Lebanon? Or Chile under
Pinochet? Or Argentina under the juanta? Or North Korea? How many
more do you need? Why didn't any of the people whose resolve was
being weakened play the non-smoking gambit? Well, OK, maybe their
opponents knew the refutation.

(Not that I imagine you're using any of these three words with much
thought).

Probably more thought than you used when crafting phrases like "soften
him up a bit" or "weaken his resolve", when the prisoner was able to
counter by invoking a non-smoking regulation. In case you're really
this clueless, you're talking serious country club here.

He had a USA Passport , he he committed a crime against the USA by
playing Chess in a country he should not have .....
He is a FUGITIVE from the USA .....
Why didn't he get another countries passport back in I992 ????
Why should he have been using an AMERICAN passport all these years ?
The USA has a right to not renew a CRIMANALS passport if we want
too...
See , we lulled him into a false since of security and it expired and
he made a mistake by trying to use it......There is no perfect crime
the long arm of the law will get you because most criminals make
mistakes....
The USA capitalized on HIS mistake CHECK MATE......

..
The USA has a right to not renew a CRIMANALS passport if we want
too...
See , we lulled him into a false since of security and it expired and
he made a mistake by trying to use it......There is no perfect crime
the long arm of the law will get you because most criminals make
mistakes....
The USA capitalized on HIS mistake CHECK MATE......


Wait a second. The U.S. doesn't have Bobby in their clutches just yet. At
this point, it is only "check," and it could lead to a mating attack, or it
could end up being ridiculed as a pointless "spite-check" -- the hallmark of a
patzer! :-)

Personally id let him go because i belive living in any other country in
the world is punishment enough for his mistake....

..
Personally id let him go because i belive living in any other country in
the world is punishment enough for his mistake....


It's always amusing to see how people, who have never been to *every* other
country in the world, will nevertheless make such sweeping statements as this.
IMO, there is probably at least ONE country out there which is not worse than
the United States, for a millionaire like Fischer to live in.
In fact, I am even willing to entertain the possibility of some country out
there being slightly better to live in than the USA. How many "other"
countries are there -- do the math.