"raylopez99" in .com
wrote:

In this thread I want to rant about US prosecurial discretion, which
basically means, in practice, if the government wants to 'get you' and
put you in jail, they can. It seems the US govt wants to 'get'
Fischer.

I agree. For all the lawyer-density in Washington DC and elsewhere in
the US (often helped by it), many things are down to personal dictat and
the whim of the criminal gangsters in public office, including judicial
office. As Abbie Hoffman said, "Amerika is just another Latin
dictatorship".

In my opinion Fischer made a mistake when he said in a radio interview
(IIRC, interview 20 at his website:
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/fischer) that the US didn't "have the guts"
to come after him. Imagine how that sounded to CIA thugs. Despite the
fact that for several years they hadn't bothered to seek to enforce the
arrest warrant (e.g. writing to him and saying 'please return to the US
for trial'), despite the fact that they had previously had absolutely no
problem with his using a US passport and had even helped him with it,
despite the fact that they had never sought to prosecute the USCF for
'trading with Yugoslavia', despite the fact that pulling the trick they
were going to pull would obviously be an abuse, the thugs decided they
were going to get him.

It appears that even now they are pressurising the Japanese authorities
to continue to hold him in prison. Why else is he continuing to be held?
Why else hasn't the Japanese Ministry of Justice managed to give a reply
to his lawyers' demand that he be allowed to leave Japan, now that he
has got what no-one disputes is a completely valid Icelandic passport
and a completely valid travel ticket?

Even now, US public-official criminals are boasting to the media about
how they are going to dream up another alleged charge, this time one
with regard to which it *is* legally possible to extradite someone from
Japan. That charge being alleged 'money-laundering' because he paid US
lawyers allegedly with money that was 'dirty' and 'the proceeds of
crime', i.e. his prize money for winning a chess match against Boris
Spassky.

A habeas corpus application is exactly what's needed and I'm glad one is
going to be made.

--
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)

"banana" wrote:

A habeas corpus application is exactly what's needed and I'm glad one is
going to be made.

One could well fear that the Japanese authorities would just ignore this
application, refuse to answer and to act. It is evident that this is no
longer a question about the law, if it ever has been.
HansJ

He'll be in jail for a long time. I can get him out but he has to pay
me $2 million in advance.

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