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> FISCHER VIOLATED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER
>
>>Bobby spat on a presidential executive order and defied a
> trade embargo in 1992 for playing Spassky who returned
> to France with no problem. More power to Bobby for that
> act of asserting human autonomy and economic freedom
> against an overweening central regime.> -- Larry Parr
>
> Now for the facts.
The indictment cites:
Violation 50 USC 1701, 1702, and 1705, which is the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and
Executive Order 12810, which in turn cites
the UN resolutions re Yugoslavia among other things.
The 'Emergency Economic Powers Act' is the modern
version of the older 'Trading with the Enemies Act'.
Apparently the latter did, and the former does not,
require a declaration of war as a precondition for
an executive order.
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> 1. The UN passed an embargo on Yugoslavia, in response
> to the escalating conflict there.
> 2. The US complied with the UN embargo, as all UN
> member nations were supposed to. The method used to
> enact the sanctions was perfectly routine. Neither the method used
> (President Bush declaring the embargo in accordance with
> laws enacted by Congress) nor the fact of the embargo
> were controversial.
> 3. The US informed Fischer prior to the match that it would violate the
> law.
> 4. Fischer publicly declared his intention to violate the law.
> 5. Fischer, not having renounced American citizen****p and
> in fact traveling on an American pass****t, did violate the law.
>
> It is hard to imagine any legal theory under which
> *not* indicting Fischer would have made sense. (Parr seems
> to have some bizarre theory related to laziness in the French
> justice department - thankfully he has spared us a full
> articulation of that nonsense.)
>
> One does not expect the anti-democratic Parr to have
> even a rudimentary understanding of democracy and
> we find our expectations fulfilled. And, of course, who
> really cares about a few hundred dead Croats? It's the
> price per chess game that Fischer could fetch with his
> exhibition that is *really* im****tant.
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