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Iceland Upholds Welcome for Fischer

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It's not like he flew planes into buildings or stole the retirement funds of millions of old folks. It was a freaking game of chess ! I think Bobby has learned his lesson now.

Iceland Upholds Welcome for Fischer

Tue Dec 21, 1:38 PM ET

By VALUR GUNNARSSON, Associated Press Writer

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland has rejected a U.S. request to drop the offer of a residency permit for former American chess champion Bobby Fischer, officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Ambassador James Gadsden had asked the country last week to withdraw its offer because Fischer is wanted in the United States on criminal charges on charges of violating international sanctions against Yugoslavia for playing chess there in 1992.

But on Monday, Foreign Secretary David Oddsson invited Gadsden to a meeting and told the U.S. ambassador that the Icelandic government stood by its offer, Icelandic officials said.

Gadsden was told that Iceland wanted to recognize its historic connection with Fischer, who has been held in great esteem here since winning the chess World Championship in Reykjavik in 1972.

Oddsson also told Gadsden that Fischer's alleged U.S. crime had exceeded Iceland's statute of limitations, and for that reason Iceland would not be bound by a U.S. extradition request if the chess player moved to Iceland from Japan.

"Nothing has been withdrawn," said Gunnar Smari Gunnarsson, Iceland's permanent secretary of state in an interview Tuesday. "It is now up to the Japanese government. We are not pressing the matter, but if Fischer comes here, he will be let into the country."

Fischer, 61, is being held in detention in Japan, where he was caught trying to board a flight for the Philippines with an invalid passport in July after the United States had revoked his passport. It remained unclear if Fischer would be released by Japan.

Fischer, who has said he would like to move to Iceland, is fighting a deportation order to the United States.

Japanese officials have said he could go to a third country only if the United States refuses to take him.

The 1992 match in Yugoslavia was against Boris Spassky and was a rematch of the 1972 match that propelled Fischer to stardom.

Fischer, who has baffled the public with his reclusiveness and odd behavior, has applied while in detention to marry a Japanese chess official. His fiance, Miyoko Watai, refused to comment on the marriage plans but said she would like to go to Iceland.

Retired police officer Saemundur Palsson, a Fischer friend since 1972, is hoping to leave for Japan soon to bring him and his girlfriend back to Iceland. Palsson had hoped to leave Tuesday but was waiting for Japan to say whether Fischer would be allowed to leave.
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Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
this anti Jew nut job needs to be sent to a mental hospital here in the states, not coddled in Iceland.
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Yeah people like Kaddafi can get another chance with our goverment but Fischer does not deserve a second chance.


P.S. By the way did you see "The Passion of the Christ" and it's portrail of jews in that movie ? Do you know what Mel and his daddy think about the holocaust ? Should they be locked up because they broke some PC Police law ?
 
btw, does anyone really care about this in the US or other countries?
just following the local media it seems that icelanders and a few fischer support groups care

 
Originally posted by: Czar
btw, does anyone really care about this in the US or other countries?
just following the local media it seems that icelanders and a few fischer support groups care
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Not really. This comes up only because Fischer is a known personality and the US seems bent on crushing him for some reason. Yeah I know the circumstances, but he is being hounded as if he were a genuine threat.

Good for your people Czar :thumbsup:
 
If he likes white people Iceland is the place to be (not to mention a very selfcontained gene pool). Doesn't seem like a bad country though. Only met one Icelander but he is a great guy.
 
BF is all washed up and shouldn't even be news if it weren't for him giving the finger to Uncle Sam about ten years ago.

Sheezh...why the U.S. doesn't just lose his file is beyond me.

I love the guy's chess genius but as a human being? Well, he'll never be Capablanca or Alekhine, and his right wing Christian views are an abomination. We can only hope that as he ages he gets less like himself.

By the way, he is almost EXACTLY my age.

-Robert
 
Originally posted by: chess9
BF is all washed up and shouldn't even be news if it weren't for him giving the finger to Uncle Sam about ten years ago.

Sheezh...why the U.S. doesn't just lose his file is beyond me.

I love the guy's chess genius but as a human being? Well, he'll never be Capablanca or Alekhine, and his right wing Christian views are an abomination. We can only hope that as he ages he gets less like himself.

By the way, he is almost EXACTLY my age.

-Robert
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Whats up with him? I know he was a young chess champ and dominated the dominating Russians back in the day...But I agree so what he broke some embargo, cuban americans do it all the time and the feds pay no mind.
 
Since beating Spassky he has slowly gone downhill in my view. The re-match was a bit of a dud and the quality of the chess was mediocre. You can't stay out of chess at the international level without losing an awful lot. He would probably be embarrassed if he played any of the top ten current Grandmasters.

All of which is very sad because he was an enormous talent. Beyond huge. Perhaps he just needs the right medication? 🙂

Well, I guess we can be glad Iceland didn't give him a COOL reception! (groan) And, since Iceland has exactly 5 Jews I doubt he will be offending many folks with his notions of Jewish Conspiracies. 🙂

-Robert
 
Originally posted by: chess9
Sheezh...why the U.S. doesn't just lose his file is beyond me.

I love the guy's chess genius but as a human being?

-Robert
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Those two sentences sum it up for me.

He's a sad case, bigoted and twisted, but he was HUGE, brilliant almost beyond human dimension. I guess the old saw that there's a fine line between genius and insanity is sadly true.

My fave Fischer quote came in an interview shortly after he beat Spassky. He said he wanted to meet "vivacious, large breasted women." Who doesn't?

 
He may be messed up in the head a bit (or perhaps more than a bit), but he's harmless. Let him live his life already.
 
did you see "The Passion of the Christ" and it's portrail of jews in that movie
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you miss the point if you think the passion was anti-Semitic, the Jews are the best that humanity has to offer and even they did that to God's son and one of there own.

anyway, i didn't say he desired to be in jail, just that he's lost his bloody mind. The man actually thinks that the world-jew conspiracy is working directly for the porous of ruining his life.

he hates women too and has made equally appalling comments about them.
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it's not that he hates anyone, you've got a right to dislike anyone you like, but he's got mental problems and is most likely a paranoid schizophrenic.
 
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
did you see "The Passion of the Christ" and it's portrail of jews in that movie
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you miss the point if you think the passion was anti-Semitic, the Jews are the best that humanity has to offer and even they did that to God's son and one of there own.

anyway, i didn't say he desired to be in jail, just that he's lost his bloody mind. The man actually thinks that the world-jew conspiracy is working directly for the porous of ruining his life.

he hates women too and has made equally appalling comments about them.
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it's not that he hates anyone, you've got a right to dislike anyone you like, but he's got mental problems and is most likely a paranoid schizophrenic.
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You're only paranoid if you "think" people are out to get you. People ARE out to get him.

As for Jews being the "best that humanity has to offer" is in itself a racist and bigoted remark.

Any person has the capacity for greatness. Jews are no different then anyone. The only difference is how you see them.
 
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
did you see "The Passion of the Christ" and it's portrail of jews in that movie
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you miss the point if you think the passion was anti-Semitic, the Jews are the best that humanity has to offer and even they did that to God's son and one of there own.

anyway, i didn't say he desired to be in jail, just that he's lost his bloody mind. The man actually thinks that the world-jew conspiracy is working directly for the porous of ruining his life.

he hates women too and has made equally appalling comments about them.
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it's not that he hates anyone, you've got a right to dislike anyone you like, but he's got mental problems and is most likely a paranoid schizophrenic.
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"the Jews are the best that humanity has to offer"? That is quite possibly the most idiotic thing i have ever read on this forum, any man that is a tad bit less racist than our dear LMK understands that it does not matter what race or religion you adhere to, it's your actions that matter.

Plenty of people beat women, plenty of idiots have not learned that women are the best thing us men have, does that make them mentally ill? Not in my opinion, it does make them lesser men and very stupid though.

LMK, on WHAT do you base your analysis on, most schizophrenics have a flawed view of reality and are paranoid (the common belief that it has anything to do with MPD is wrong though) but this guy is no more schizophrenic than you are for elevating us Jews simply because we are born Jews.
 
Thanks Klixxer you saved me some typing. LMK WTH? You are still singling out a group and putting them above others, that's still a bit screwy don't you think?
 
Originally posted by: Aelius
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
did you see "The Passion of the Christ" and it's portrail of jews in that movie
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you miss the point if you think the passion was anti-Semitic, the Jews are the best that humanity has to offer and even they did that to God's son and one of there own.

anyway, i didn't say he desired to be in jail, just that he's lost his bloody mind. The man actually thinks that the world-jew conspiracy is working directly for the porous of ruining his life.

he hates women too and has made equally appalling comments about them.
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it's not that he hates anyone, you've got a right to dislike anyone you like, but he's got mental problems and is most likely a paranoid schizophrenic.
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You're only paranoid if you "think" people are out to get you. People ARE out to get him.

As for Jews being the "best that humanity has to offer" is in itself a racist and bigoted remark.

Any person has the capacity for greatness. Jews are no different then anyone. The only difference is how you see them.
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LMK is pulling some reversi psychology trip. He's probably more in line with bobby's thoughts, and thinking that way, since the Jews control the world of course, he'll be saved when they come for the gentiles. He knows which way the winds blowin right LMK?
 
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