Chess legend renounces U.S. status

[NeoConsSuck]

TOKYO, Japan -- Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has told U.S. authorities he wants to renounce his American citizenship.

Japanese authorities detained Fischer at Tokyo's Narita International Airport in July on charges of traveling with a revoked U.S. passport after he tried to board a fight to the Philippines.

The 61-year-old is wanted in the United States for attending a 1992 chess match in the former Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/fischer.japan/index.html

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. He's a traitor and a terrorist sympathizer

because he played that chess match.

</sarcasm>

Cheney, however, can ignore any and all treaties, and basically do whatever the fuck he wants.

SHOVE IT! - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - Hero Kerry AWOL Bush
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[arwalden]

2. Can You Blame Him? -- WHAT WARPED PRIORITIES Our Gov't Has!! Amazing!

[Mokito]

5. We need a War On Chess a.s.a.p.

That evil mind-enhancing game is a wicked tool of the intellectual elite to make us all think! Can you imagine that, people that think!?

(/sarcasm, obviously):crazy:

[BiggJawn]

3. Uh-Oh....Careful, Bobby...

Once you renounce your citizenship, you become a "Person of Interest" and you will be grabbed and spirited away to GITMO.

Can't get away from this ridiculous bullshit that easily.
Isn't there a Statute of Limitations on this? It's not like he killed anybody, he just collected a paycheck for a chess game.

Maybe he should have been involved in selling oil technology to our "enemies" like a certain Veep we all know and loathe?

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Fischer is a looney and a racist

However, he is also a genius.

Bobby Fischer vs. Mark Taimanov, Canidates' Quarter Final Match (Fourth Game), Vancouver 1971 (Sicilian Defense)

[R Hickey]

6. Thank you for the link to that website

Yes.

[Caution]

7. The government charges against him are absurd but

i find no sympathy for a man who is an avowed anti-semite and racist. He may be a genius when it comes to chess and his "invention" of a new form of chess (randomize the back row of pieces at the beginning of each game) is a brilliant way to invigorate the game, but he is a total lifelife scumbag of a human being.

[allemand]

8. Maybe he should have your sympathy for being mentally ill

How many sane Jewish anti-Semites do you know?

[edbermac]

9. Bobby has not been playing with a full deck for a LONG time...

Fischer actually went to the same high school as Barbra Streisand. She said she had a crush on him but thought he was an eccentric at age 15. I think he has problems the same as John Nash of A Beautiful Mind fame. Defintely needs to be on medication.

[Jack The Tab]

10. Thats this administration..going after the threats to our safety..

Like Bobby Fischer!! He must be stopped!!