Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 03:49:13 07/16/04
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On July 16, 2004 at 03:28:15, David Mitchell wrote: >On July 16, 2004 at 02:57:52, Slater Wold wrote: > >>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Japan%20Bobby%20Fischer >> >>"Officials were preparing to deport him to the United States, the Asahi Shimbun >>newspaper said Friday, citing unnamed sources." >> >> >>He's coming to the US, where he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars. >> >>Exciting end to his life, eh? > >Fischer's paranoia and anti-semitism (which is ironic because he's part jewish), >will certainly not help his case, however, he's not guilty of anything except >traveling to Yugoslavia and, probably the more serious charge, of failing to pay >taxes on his prize money. > >Doesn't sound like a lifetime sentence to me. Just hope he doesn't kick & bite >some federal marshall on the way back. :) > >Dave Sounds like he will serve his time in a mental hospital instead of jail-time.
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