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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1741@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:30:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.104922.684@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- :
- : It is 'ridiculous' because it is a limit on one's work/art/love. Christ.
- : If an American were to write a book of poems entitled--
- :
- : "Suffering of the Serbs" (or whatever ethnic group you fill in) and sold
- : copies of it outside of the FS match, would the State department be calling
- : for blood? Tell us Sven, would you be as in favor of locking them up?
- :
- : And, if not, please explain how what that person did would be any different
- : than what Fischer did.
- :
- : (This should be good!)
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-
- I'm not in favor of locking Fischer up, but I do think that what
- he did was contemptible. From what I understand, the Serbs
- considered the match something of a propaganda coup, and
- Fischer surely knew that, just as surely as he knew of the
- attrocities his sponsors were committing. He shouldn't be
- prosecuted, but he should be ashamed.
- It's hard to see, by the way, how the sanctions were a limit
- on Fischer's ability to play chess. The match could just as
- easily have been played elsewhere.
-
- Bill
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