Your tax dollars at work?
Jul. 16th, 2004 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosI'm not sure why the U.S. is still pursuing Bobby Fischer.
Based on this article, he violated sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia.
That's right. A rogue chess game, in the eyes of the United States. You, Bobby Fischer set a bad example. I'm sure all other chess players felt encouraged to play chess matches in countries sanctioned by the United States.
Here's Bobby Fischer's story up to the 1992 match in Yugoslavia.
I suppose I'm ignorant to the subtleties of this problem. But this whole thing seems like a huge waste of time. Clearly someone could have gone around this dilemma and held the game in another country. On the other hand, why prevent an American from working? Why not tax his chess earnings like they normally did? Once again, a case of people going around their elbow to get to their thumb. Even in the world of chess, ballsy defiance just doesn't pay.
Sixteen years later, the pissing contest between the United States and Bobby Fischer seems to be drawing to a close.
Based on this article, he violated sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia.
That's right. A rogue chess game, in the eyes of the United States. You, Bobby Fischer set a bad example. I'm sure all other chess players felt encouraged to play chess matches in countries sanctioned by the United States.
Here's Bobby Fischer's story up to the 1992 match in Yugoslavia.
I suppose I'm ignorant to the subtleties of this problem. But this whole thing seems like a huge waste of time. Clearly someone could have gone around this dilemma and held the game in another country. On the other hand, why prevent an American from working? Why not tax his chess earnings like they normally did? Once again, a case of people going around their elbow to get to their thumb. Even in the world of chess, ballsy defiance just doesn't pay.
Sixteen years later, the pissing contest between the United States and Bobby Fischer seems to be drawing to a close.
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Date: 2004-07-16 06:46 pm (UTC)Apparently in the 80's Bobby got involved in a cult and gave away all his money. That's why he agreed to the 92 match with his old rival for the $5 million purse. Bush I had signed a decree in 1990 baring any American from doing business in Yugoslavia, due to their communism/human rights violations (depending on who you believe.) Bobby openly defied the order.
The real kicker was that on 9/11 Bobby told a Phillapino radio station that he was 'jupping for joy,' that the US deserved whatever it got, and he was looking forward to the fall of the US. All my admiration and sympathy went right out the window.