[sageridder]

While I agree with you about the charges, I can't help but feel that some of his actions and statments (shown below) could have only helped those that might have dropped the charges deside not to.

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

In a pre-match press conference, filled with histrionics, Fischer spat on a document from the U.S. State Department forbidding Fischer to play in the Balkan state because of economic sanctions in place at the time. In response, Fischer was indicted and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Fischer won the match and collected the $3.3 million prize. Then he disappeared again. Then in 1999 he gave a call-in interview to a Hungarian radio station that started off with him answering questions of listeners, but quickly degenerated into an incoherent rant in which Fischer described himself as the victim of an international Jewish conspiracy.

The Budapest station eventually cut him off, but a similar episode occurred after the September 11, 2001 terrorism attacks. Here, Fischer gave a broadcast interview to Bombo Radyo, a Baguio City-based small public-radio station. "This is all wonderful news," Fischer said. "I applaud the act. The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a **** . Now it's coming back to the U.S. **** the U.S. I want to see the U.S. wiped out."

[ 12-16-2004, 04:01 AM: Message edited by: sageridder ]