SNEAKY AND VINDICTIVE
> While the blade hovered menacingly over Fischer's head for many years,
> AFAIK, the only overt action against him was taken by the Shrub
> administration, and then only by the back door of a pass****t
> violation, using the Japanese as surrogates. It was a sneaky,
> vindictive action which appears to have deliberately evaded addressing
> the issues Berry mentions in your quote, above. -- Mike Murray
I wrote about the logic employed by David Kane
when assuming illegal actions are per se criminal ones.
Kanester's response is that Bobby had to be
stopped from playing in Yugoslavia because of
"exigent" cir***stances.
Nonsense. No vital American interest was
involved in the tiny feuding world of the south Slavs.
Kanester sup****ts the power of the state to
tell a Fischer or other artist with whom he may or may
not dispose of his intellectual product.
My reference to Stalin was apposite.
Kanester-gangster logic holds that if you break a law,
you are a criminal. Our Kanester has repeatedly
confounded illegality (say, leaking CIA torture memos)
with criminality. Kanester evidently believes that the
State defines the nature of what is criminal rather than
making that determination by applying natural and common
law while employing long-standing legal norms.
The vast regime that now rules us from Wa****ngton, DC,
has long ago abandoned the concept of legal norms as it
seeks to legislate and decree in every area of human life.
The Bush administration avoided a frontal attack on
on Fischer playing in Serbia for fear of a constitutional
issue regarding these presidential orders. They planned
to get him back to America and then charge him for not
paying taxes to sup****t our assorted wars.
Yours, Larry Parr
Mike Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 05:57:05 -0700 (PDT), "parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >Canadian chess journalist Jonathan Berry observed, "It has been
> >re****ted that President Clinton in his memoirs said the embargo was
> >ignored by all, even the USA government, and it was only enforced to
> >the extent that arms were not sent to Serbia. Yet arms were sent with
> >impunity to other factions, and other contacts with Serbia were okay.
> >If true, the whole incident appears doubly pointless."
>
> >A reader replied, "It?s even worse than that. Serbia allegedly
> >received missiles produced in the USA via Israel which makes it
> >grotesquely hypocritical to punish Fischer for his 30 games against
> >Spassky."
>
> While the blade hovered menacingly over Fischer's head for many years,
> AFAIK, the only overt action against him was taken by the Shrub
> administration, and then only by the back door of a pass****t
> violation, using the Japanese as surrogates. It was a sneaky,
> vindictive action which appears to have deliberately evaded addressing
> the issues Berry mentions in your quote, above.
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