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Bobby Fischer FBI Files Released Under FOIA
An anonymous reader writes: "Philidelphia Inquirer has a stroy detailing the results of a FOIA request for chess great Bobby Fischer." Turns out they thought the anti-semitic chess grandmaster(and his mother) was a soviet spy.
playing chess?
I mean... and they let that chinese dude (who stole nuclear secrets and whatnot) get away with it?
at least target people who can remotely have access to important stuff, man.
fp, btw, maybe
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Because it shows the scum fuck for what he really is. A hate breeding mongrel.
It's who he is, you don't write about someone and neglect who they are. Do you write about hitler and not mention he hated jews? Do you write about Osama Bin Laden without mentioning in the slightest way he hates jews and Americans?
He put the label on himself, he has no one else to blame.
When a government spies upon its own citizens, and begins to view them as the enemy, then it no longer deserves the power that we have entrusted it with. I empathize with Bobby Fischer and I respect the man all the more for what he has said. The true worth of a man is not blind faith in his nation of birth, nor a terrible sangunity. It is the ability to speak your mind desptie an overwhelmingly large opposition.
Perhaps we really do deserve to be undone. Perhaps I am a fool. All I know is that Bobby Fischer is right to hate our government. He is right to hate us. Look at everything we have done to him.
semetic peoples are the people of asia and north africa... they are broken down into specific categories (East, Chanaanitic, Aramaic, Arabian-Abyssianan, etc). in otherwords, to be anti-semetic is to hate an entire group of peoples including both the israllies, the palastinians, morrocans, the iraqis, the iranians... pretty much all of the middle east and northernmost africa, non-exclusive. fischer clearly supports the palastinians and is therefore, clearly not anti-semetic, he just is anti-israelli.
And don't tell me that Ariel Sharon in september 2000 was not not a suicide bomber. What he did was outrageous provocation. He was considered, and rightfully so (he was for a while even sued in Belgium, a country with a 'universal competence law' voted to try criminals against humanity outside of belgian territory), as a war criminal. I was going to make a nazi analogon, but you will invoke Godwin on me so I will do the same with one of your more personal friends. Suppose Ossama bin Laden were to make a pilgrimage to his now holy place, Ground Zero, NY, USA, accompanied with 1700 of his thugs with AK47s for protection of his peaceful pilgrimage. Assume further that the mayor of NY were to have no problems with the event, because 911 made him look good (Yeah, I know he resigned). Would you call the widows and orphans that violently protest terrorists ? This was a coup by the right wing to sink the negotiations (Yeah I know they didn't go too well) and gain control.
Don't you tell me that the guy who killed Rabin in 1995 was not a suicide bomber
Don't you dare saying me that the assassin that machine gunned the unarmed people in 199x in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron was not a suicide bomber.
The differences between these suicide bombers and Palestinian suicide bombers are that Israelis suicide bombers don't die because they are stronger, partly because of your American money.
Many mainstream Israeli politicians and senior military figures support the ethnic cleansing, and in some cases liquidation of the Palestinians. Sounds awfully like Nazi policies towards Jews, gypsies and Slavs to me.
there are people who advocate hatred in every society. the nazis rounded up millions of civilians and slaughtered them. israelis have not. for you to equate the israelis with the nazis is ignorant.
Israel is a state which justifies its existence on religious/political tracts from over 2000 years ago.
no, it justifies its existence on the fact that every people deserves a homeland of their own where they are not persecuted and killed. every people deserves this at the very minimum, whether they be jews, kurds, or croatians.
Israel ignores UN resolutions and invades neighbouring states. Think the League of Nations and the appeasement of Hitler over Czechoslovakia.
israel invades neighbors defensively, in response to attacks, such as missiles and mortar fire coming from across the border in lebanon. the only times israel has captured and kept land *was when they were attacked by neighbors*! for you to equate them with hitler, who was the aggressor and started a war to take over other countries, just shows you are either completely ignorant of the facts, or, more likely, making a feeble attempt at misrepresenting them to forward your own jew-bashing agenda.
try educating yourself about the facts if you want to post about such issues. most likely you're just being a troll, though, i don't know why i waste my time responding to you.
Considering terrorism a simple form of violence is a fatal fallacy. The only thing you can do with peacefully with terrorists is to give up. Else, you have to fight. As to September the 11th, could you honestly say that radical Islam would either not appear or wouldn't come to a violent confrontation with the West if there hadn't been an Israel? The confrontation is around since the Crusades, and there wasn't an Israel back then.
Absolute lie. Show me one Israeli politician who speaks of ethnic cleansing of any sort. The most extreme (supported by like 3% of the public) speak about a volontary transfer.
Your understanding of Zionism is as lacking as it could be. Israel justifies its existence as a unique nation-state for the Jews. If you want practical justifications for why such a state is needed, look up any encyclopedia under the entry "Holocaust"
Just don't trivialize the Arab-Israeli conflict by appealing to the U.N. authority. Was the Jordanian control of West Bank prior to 1967 legal (hint: it was recognized solely by the UK and Pakistan)? Yet I don't see you jumping on that. Was the closure of Tyran straits legal (look it up: the 1888 Constantinople Convention)?
Palestinians are not Israeli citizens. The Palestinian Authority is a separate political entity, and it had accidentially declared de-facto war on Israel. So true, life is hard in the Palestinian cities. Life was also hard in Hamburg when it was bombed in 1943.
So has U.S. Or is blowing up people in Yemen allowable by international law? The rules of the game are different now, from what they were 30 years ago. It's simple: if you don't kill a terrorist now, you're gonna suffer dozens, hundreds or thousands dead later.
Oh I see, speaking of "dirty Jews" is legitimate then?
Actually, you are completely wrong. During WWII and in the years following WWII there was a movement among the Jewish people called the "Zionist" movement. For the unknowing, Mt. Zion is a mountainous region that exists in the current country of Isreal, the area of the world where the Hebrew people orginally descended when they started massacring the native people of the area. This was before the creation of Judaism from the orignal Hebrew warriors and original religious writings (from which Christianity was later created). Well, the area around Mt. Zion through history became permanently settled, the native people of the area later converted to Islam (~600 CE), and was known as Palestine.
After WWII everyone felt sorry for not helping the Jews more during the war after Hitler's "Final Solution" (although during the course of the war just as many Russians, handicapped, Gypsies, and others died as the Jews, but that is for another day). Before WWII Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, and Lebanon did not exist. These were all one large territory under the colonial rule of Britian. Egypt and Libya were under French colonial rule. After WWII both Britian and France lost their colonial powers. Britian split the Shiite muslims and the Sunni muslims into the respective countries of Iraq and Iran. The Jews complained so much about Hitler's treatment of them during WWII, the Jews overall treatment over the past ~2000 years, the fact that they didn't have a "homeland", and nobody wanted them in northern Africa, that Britian made the brilliant move to ship all of the Jews to Palestine, kick out the Palestinians, and simply declare Israel a state. Technically, Israel has no business being a country whatsoever. Israel is Palestinian homeland.
The reasons that we, as in the United States, do not just pull out of giving Israel military assistance is very, very political. We have sold Israel all of their military equipment. We gave them nuclear weapons. Sharon promises to nuke anyone that touches Israel. The US needs a middle eastern ally. The list goes on and on. Imagine yourself a Palestinian. It is like taking someone you love with all of your heart (in the Palestinian's case their homeland, but for this example I will use your wife), ripping her away from you, marrying her to another man, being told you cannot do anything about it because all of the people you ask threaten to kill you if you act out against the new husband (and your friends are all too weak to help you, plus the new husband has a gun when all you and your friends have are small sticks), and then being told that you and the new husband have to be bestfriends, no matter what. Take that example and multiple it by 10,000 and you will understand my point.
The United States, Britian, and Israel are in the wrong. But, the point is is that pro-Zionist prejudice is about being blind to the fact that Israel is in the wrong. You are being blind (or ignorant) to what Israel is as a country, why it is there, and why it was created. You are being blind to the attrocities that occur there on an everyday basis to the Palestinians. You blind yourself by saying that Israel is in the right, no matter what, because it is politically correct to think so. Being anti-Israel is not being anti-semetic. The Palestinians are a people just like the Israelites are a people. Each with their own backgrounds and religions. Killing one or the other or hating one or the other are both anti-semetic. What people need to do is stop being so blind on both sides of the problem. Simple answer: remove Israel, restore each respective group to their respective native countries (Israelites have none), and tell the Jewish people to live like everyone else in the world, practice their faith privately like everyone else, and spread out across the Earth liek everyone and try your best to live in peace with everyone else in the world (Why people hate the Jews is a very long story for another day also). Impossible answer: Continue along the path we are now, and try and make everyone believe that Britain and the United States know what is best for the world, continue to support Israel, force everyone to stop hating each other for the pains of the past, force the Palestinians to actually "want" to give up their homelands forever, and force everyone to love each other and get along.