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- From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld)
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.052513.14461@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec18.132520.549@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <4471@cvbnetPrime.COM> <1992Dec22.011249.594@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:25:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.011249.594@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >In article <4471@cvbnetPrime.COM>, fdeming@cvbnet@prime.com (Frank Deming {x6088}) writes:
- >>
- >> I believe no one has indicated Bobby Fischer is the property of the US
- >> goverment.
- >
- >Then how do they exercise jurisdiction over him when he is NOT within US
- >borders? What claim do they have to control his actions?
-
- This is really idiotic. Do you think that government having jurisdiction over
- its people mean that those people are its property? And do you think that a US
- citizen who kills somebody in another country would be immune of a trial by a
- US court?
-
- You must be either kidding or totally ignorant.
-
- >
- >Last time I checked, the U.S. constitution did NOT extend to Yugoslavia,
- >but maybe I have been studying the abridged version.
-
- However, the UN Charter DOES extend to Yugoslavia, which signed it and thus
- gave the UN the right to enforce it. The same applies to the US, which, in this
- case, is playing by the rules.
-
- If you think the rules are stupid and should be abandoned, you must also think
- that the US had no jurisdiction over the Nazi WWII criminals, or no right to
- prevent nuclear missiles deployment in Cuba, or whatever... (I am not saying
- that those are exact analogies and any attempt to misinterpret them as such
- will be ignored).
-
- Sven
-
-