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Part Two: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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The Bush Administration Versus Bobby Fisher Anti-Semitism

In 2003, the Justice Department in a move that is defined by the Bush administration's incredibly questionable grasp on legality, revokes Fisher's passport without telling him. In 2004, Bobby Fisher is in, he's in Japan, he's trying to like fly home to the Philippines, and he gets arrested. And at this point, so Bobby, like is really trying to fight getting extradited to the US because if they send him back to the US, the Bush administration will just put his ass in prison for like a decade. But it's also worth noting that every single Japanese police officer is at all times too bad days away from like, posting the rising sun flag and hunting down every Korean

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