26 March 2005
Now Bobby Fischer's safely in Iceland, I suppose the wedding is the next headline-grabbing event. As Iceland went to so much trouble to rescue Bobby, can't see them giving him up when the US comes along with an extradition request. Guess Bobby had better stick to countries that are not friendly to the US. Plenty to chose from there. How about a re-match with dear Boris in Pyongyang? I've seen some 22-carat PR cock-ups in my time, but this one is right up there with them. Because Japanese government ministers are old and insular, and chess is not popular in Japan, the Justice Ministry and Immigration Department did not realise the potential worldwide support for Bobby Fischer. Then there is the David and Goliath factor. And giving Bush the finger is something at least half the world's population would like to do. "Bush is a war criminal and should be hung." I'm thinking a world majority could get behind that, too. Imagine Japan finally let Bobby go because talk of Japan not getting a seat on the UN Security Council was starting to get some airtime. America was forcing Japan to break its own laws, and the Diet opposition were putting it about that Japan was starting to look like America's bitch.
In the last few weeks, Japanese media has been airing documentaries showing the US in a poor light, not that you need to look that hard: Fire bombing of Tokyo, Black lynching in the South, Selma march, KFJ assignation, use of napalm in Vietnam. Haven't mentioned napalm in Iraq yet, so I guess they're saving that for when Japanese troops are pulled out. So you can lick your finger and tell which way the wind's blowing.
If Mossad is ever credibly implicated in 9/11, Bobby's currently unfashionable anti-Semitic views will become decidedly mainstream. Seriously doubt if most US citizens will appreciate the esoteric distinction between anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist when Bush and Co. are led away in handcuffs screaming "It was the Israeli Secret Service what done it". This has to be the secret fear that is keeping US Jewry awake at night, because if the 9/11 fiction starts to come unravelled, at the very least aid to Israel will be cut overnight. And perhaps this in the final analysis is why the fiction will be maintained. Look at the fall out: World economic meltdown, destruction of the State of Israel, nuclear winter, death of first born. We could be back to the horse and buggy, and naturally everyone's retirement pension will have gone down the pan.
Just so you don't run out of things to worry about.