Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 06:14:06 07/16/04
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On July 16, 2004 at 03:28:15, David Mitchell wrote: >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. this is not so easy. he is mentally ill. if he is fighting against his imprisonement and attacks police, they will bring him into a hospital for criminal mental ill people. there he can stay for a long time, depending on how he behaves. since he is paranoia and schizoid it will not be easy to heal or help him. i doubt that the story will end positively. he would have needed the professional help in the age of 11 or 14, now it is way too late. I wonder why nobody in the chess club he played in in those years forced him to get professional help in a time it would have made sense. was it because one misused him as a strong chess player ? >Doesn't sound like a lifetime sentence to me. Just hope he doesn't kick & bite >some federal marshall on the way back. :) that will happen :-))
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