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- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 10:17:10 EST
- References: <1gpafnINN8bb@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Dec18.210943.10605@midway.uchicago.edu> <1gtseiINNfn2@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Dec21.045954.5444@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.045954.5444@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- > In article <1gtseiINNfn2@tamsun.tamu.edu> sharring@cs.tamu.edu (Steven L Harrington) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec18.210943.10605@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>In article <1gpafnINN8bb@tamsun.tamu.edu> sharring@cs.tamu.edu (Steven L Harrington) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>> Couldn't we better use that "slot" in prison for housing
- >>>>someone that is an actual threat to society?
- >>>
- >>>By your logic, we should pardon WWII war criminals who are now 80+ years old
- >>>and definitely do not pose any actual threat to society.
- >>>
- >>> Sven
- >>>
- >>
- >>Correct me if I'm wrong, but WWII war criminals were guilty of comitting
- >>_crimes_ (important word here).
- >
- > So is Fischer (unless he successfully pleads insanity).
-
- Please go back and read the posts to find where this thread of debate has
- ALREADY gone...
-
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-
- >
- > True, the crimes of the Nazi bunch were more severe, but they also received
- > more severe punishment than Fischer could get. But if we don't limit ourselves
- > to the famous Nueremberg cases, there were many small Nazi collaborators who
- > were executed for crimes LESS severe than Fischer's (and Spassky's - it is too
- > easily forgotten that Fischer is not the only culprit).
- >
- > It should be added, paradoxically, that, UNLIKE Fischer, the Nazi war criminals
- > formally broke no laws.
-
- Please go study your history.
-
- >
- >> Oh, that's right - it was a crime
- >>to play chess in Yugoslavia.
- >
- > Nonsense. Fischer wasn't indicted for playing chess, but for doing business.
-
- What business was that...was it:
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- 1. Operating a 7-11?
- 2. Selling US passports?
- 3. Playing Chess?
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