Bobby Fischer - Statement of Facts
A very long blow-by-blow description of Fischer's arrest
at Narita Airport has appeared in the "Bobby Fischer web site".
It is entitled "Kidnapped and railroaded to his imprisonment
torture and death in the Jew-controlled U.S.A.", and written in the third person.
It is based on Fischer's own
description of what transpired.
On July 13th 2004 at about 5:25 p.m. Robert James Fischer
(“Bobby” Fischer) entered the Japanese immigration dept. on his
way to Japan Airlines flight JL 745 departing from Tokyo/Narita
airport at 6:20 p.m. for Manila Philippines. Bobby gave the
immigration lady his passport and she quickly stamped his exit
visa. However he’d forgotten to fill out the immigration
departure form. She told him to fill it out at a nearby writing
stand. He took it over there and filled it out. But when Bobby
returned a couple of minutes later an immigration man had
replaced her. Bobby gave him back his passport and the filled
out immigration form. However when the immigration man put his
passport under a special light a beep went off or was set off
and Bobby was detained. Bobby was asked to take a nearby seat
while they found out what was the problem. Bobby took the seat
and as he was waiting he heard someone on the phone fiercely
barking instructions to an immigration official. The immigration
official kept repeating in a loud militaristic manner “hai, hai!”
After Bobby had waited there about 15 minutes or so he told the
immigration official talking on the phone that his plane was
leaving shortly and that he didn’t want to miss the flight. By
now all pretense of civility was gone and the immigration
official fairly shouted at Bobby “I know that sit down!” and
went back to his bullshit phone call. After waiting there on his
seat for about half an hour or so altogether Bobby was told to
accompany various immigration security officials. Bobby went
with them through the office to the left of the immigration exit
counters and then down a ways to an elevator. Bobby and the
security officials took the elevator down at least one floor.
Then Bobby and the immigration security officials took a long
walk down the dark and narrow corridor to Bobby was told not
where. The atmosphere had turned threatening, foreboding,
hostile and sinister. The place was completely apart and
isolated from other passengers. There were only immigration
types. Bobby asked “Where are we going?” He was told they were
going to an office to talk. Bobby stopped walking and said
“What’s the problem?” Bobby was told that he should just go to
the office to talk. Bobby said “About what?” Bobby was told “We
just talk.” At some stage a young extremely fat half Japanese
and half Latino translator made his portly appearance. By now
Bobby said “I’m not moving until I know what this is all about.”
Bobby tried to start walking in the direction of where he’d come
from. He was blocked by a smirking young immigration security
type. Bobby was now surrounded by about at least 4 or 5
immigration security types plus the translator. The security
types kept coming and going but overall their number slowly
increased… Bobby demanded to know if he was under arrest and if
so what were the charges against him. Bobby said he wasn’t
moving until he found out what this was all about. Over and over
and over again Bobby was asked if he wished to see someone from
the U.S. embassy. Bobby was told he had a right to contact the
U.S. embassy. Bobby was told maybe they can help you. Bobby
always answered immediately and vehemently and with finality
that he did not wish to see anyone from the U.S. embassy nor did
he wish to contact the U.S. embassy. Bobby explained that the
U.S. embassy was itself the problem not the solution. Bobby
explained that the U.S. government is evil and that they were
out to “get” him. Even the translator conceded to Bobby in
Spanish that in his opinion Bush is a monster! Bobby asked to
call a friend many times but they refused.
After everyone was standing in the hallway for about 45
minutes or so a half-crazed security official came out with
Bobby’s passport and they showed Bobby what they said was his
arrest warrant. But they wouldn’t let Bobby touch it. It
appeared to be a 2 page document. It was in Japanese and
English. Bobby tried to read the first page from a distance but
only got a glimpse of the second page. The first page said that
Bobby had illegally entered Japan and illegally left Japan!!!
Bobby asked “When did I illegally enter Japan?” He was told it
was all there on the arrest warrant. Bobby said “Where’s the
date I illegally entered?” Bobby said maybe it’s in Japanese but
that he didn’t see it in English. They said it’s there in
English too. They said that everything on the arrest warrant was
in Japanese and English. If the date when Bobby allegedly
illegally entered Japan was in English or western numerals Bobby
sure didn’t see it. The older half-crazed higher level
immigration official told Bobby that his passport was not valid.
Bobby said “Since when is it not valid? You mean it was not
valid when I entered Japan a few months ago?” The kook answered
“That’s right!” Bobby continued “It wasn’t valid when I entered
Japan 3 months ago? Since when hasn’t it been valid?” The kook
answered “Oh, long before that!” Bobby pressed on “Since when
hasn’t it been valid?” The kook answered since last November!!!
Fischer renounces US citizenship
Latest news: on August 10th Japanese immigration authorities
moved Fischer from the small 'Narita Airport Detention Centre'
to the larger 'Ushiku Immigration Detention Centre', some 50
kilometres northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Japanese immigration
officials rejected Fischer's initial appeal against deportation
last month and he has filed a second plea to Justice Minister
Daizo Nozawa.
Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki said that immigration
officials did not disclose the reason for the transfer, but that
going by past cases it was likely Fischer would be kept there
for some time and would not be deported imminently. "I think
immigration is eyeing a long-term stay. It would seem natural to
keep him at the airport if they were thinking of deporting him
soon. The most important thing is to prevent him from being
deported from Japan to the United States. So from that
perspective it's not a bad sign."
In the following we bring you two letters handwritten by
Fischer and addressed to the US consular authorities in Tokyo.
In it the former world champion attempts to renounce his US
citizenship.
August 6, 2004 From: Robert James Fischer at the Narita
Airport Immigration lockup. To: “Peter” at the Tokyo U.S.
Embassy.
Dear “Peter” (you won’t tell me what your last name is) I
called you yesterday at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo at about 10:00
am and we discussed some of the various vicious crimes the U.S.
and the Japanese governments have committed against me working
in collusion and in conspiracy since at least July 13, 2004. I
say “at least” because obviously the conspiracy to commit those
crimes had to begin some time before July 13, 2004. I also told
you that I wished to renounce my U.S. citizenship on that very
day August 5, 2004. I asked that either you or someone else from
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo come over to the Narita International
Airport Detention center lockup immediately so I could
officially renounce my U.S. citizenship on that very day,
yesterday August 5, 2004. You made one excuse after another as
to why neither you nor anyone else from the Embassy could come
over to do it. Such as: you had no time that day, and no one
else at the Embassy had time that day, you didn’t know the law
and you’d have to study it first, also you would have to check
with Washington D.C. first. I said could you or someone else
from the Embassy come over tomorrow (i.e. today) to do it. You
said you didn’t know and you couldn’t say. Judging by your
jittery, jumpy nervous answers to my demand to officially
renounce my U.S. citizenship I realized I’d hit a nerve.
Apparently my renouncing my U.S. citizenship does not fit in too
conveniently with the U.S.-Japanese plot to illegally deport me
to my “home” country the U.S.A. and illegally try, convict,
imprison, torture and murder me there. At about 9:30 am this
morning I will request my kidnappers here to place a call with
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for about 10:00 am. I will again
demand that either you or someone else from the Embassy come
over here so that I can officially renounce my U.S. citizenship
today. I’m quite sure that in violation of my rights you will
not. (If I’m wrong so much the better.) But assuming that you
won’t I will now do the job myself. Since you are refusing to
cooperate as the U.S. law commands you to I believe this
renunciation has full validity under the law. That is if one can
even speak seriously about “law” in a lawless country like the
U.S.A. Here goes: I am Robert James Fischer. I am a U.S.
citizen. I was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Ill. U.S.A. My
U.S. passport no. is or was Z7792702. It was issued at the U.S.
Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. The issue date is January 24, 1997
and the expiry date is January 23, 2007. I Robert James Fischer
do hereby irrevocably and permanently renounce my U.S.
citizenship and all the supposed rights and privileges of United
States citizenship. I will do my very best to get this letter
hand delivered to you at the Tokyo U.S. Embassy today. Free at
last, free at last, thank God almighty I am free at last.
Sincerely,
Robert James Fischer
August 10, 2004 From: Robert James Fischer at the Narita
Airport Immigration lockup. To: “Peter at the Tokyo U.S. Embassy
Dear “Peter” (you wont tell me what your last name is) I just
spoke with you again on the phone about you or someone else from
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo coming out here this morning so that I
can officially renounce my U.S. citizenship in person before a
U.S. consular or diplomatic officer and you flatly refused. You
also said nobody else from the Embassy could come today to do
it. I asked you if you had received my letter to you of August
6, 2004 and you said you had. I told you that in my opinion the
letter was legally valid and that I was no longer an American
citizen. I asked you if you agreed and you refused to answer.
You said if I had any request to make to the U.S. Embassy in
Tokyo I should communicate it in writing by letter and then hung
up. I have demanded that you or someone else from the U.S.
Embassy in Tokyo come out here every working day since Aug. 5,
2004 until today August 10, 2004 so that I could renounce my
U.S. citizenship before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer. I
spoke with you August 5, 2004, August 6 2004, and today August
10, 2004. I also called the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo yesterday
August 9, 2004 to renounce my U.S. citizenship here in front of
a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer but the Embassy secretary
refused to put me through to you or anyone else at the Embassy
and she hung up on me about 4 or 5 times. However she did admit
that you were there at the Embassy at that time but that you
were “unavailable” to talk to me. She also admitted that she
believed that you had received my letter to you of August 6,
2004. Well, “Peter” (you won’t tell me what your last name is)
that’s all by way of background. So now here is my demand to you
and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. I demand that you
immediately send a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer over to
me at the Narita Airport immigration detention center lockup so
that I can sign an oath of renunciation of my U.S. citizenship
in front of him or her today. I’m told by my kidnappers here
that they’re moving me to another prison today. They’re moving
me to the Ushiko Immigration detention center lockup in Ibaragi
prefecture. I’ll be leaving here at about 1.00 p.m and arriving
at the Ushiko Immigration detention center lockup a few hours
later. So if it’s too late to take the oath of renunciation here
at Narita today we can do it tonight or tomorrow morning in
Ushiko. I will endeavour to get this letter hand delivered over
to you at your Embassy today. No more delaying games and royal
runaround “Peter.” I demand my right to officially renounce my
U.S. citizenship in front of a U.S. consular or diplomatic
officer NOW. It’s not like the old days “Peter” all this
is going to the Internet and the whole world is watching your
chicanery and criminality. You’ve already physically destroyed
my perfectly valid U.S. passport No. Z7792702 by punching holes
through it. This illegal act was meant to criminalize me but in
reality it only criminalized you and the U.S. government! O.K.
“Peter” (you won’t tell me what your last name is) get off the
stick and get yourself or someone else from the U.S. Embassy in
Tokyo over here or to Ushiko so we can officially do the
renunciation bit.
Sincerely
Robert James Fischer
Appeal by a US chess player
Dear President Bush,
Bobby Fischer, an American citizen, was one of the most
effective weapons against the Soviet Union during the cold war.
In 1972 he defeated the World Chess Champion, Boris Spassky of
the Soviet Union. He did this without ever having received one
iota of support from the United States Government. The Soviets
threw all their support behind Spassky and were deeply
humiliated when Bobby Fischer beat him to become the new World
Chess Champion. The United States government expressed
appreciation, but nothing else.
Immediately the Soviets began preparations for taking back
the title, because this was a very important public relations
matter in the Soviet Union. The United States did nothing for
Bobby Fischer, even then. In 1975 the Soviets managed to wrest
the title from the United States by arranging the conditions of
the next match in a way where they were sure Bobby would
forfeit.
Not only did the United States suffer a humiliation at the
hands of the Soviet Union, but the world was deprived of the
beautiful chess that was probably the best that has ever been
played. And, Bobby Fischer was punished by being thrown into a
life of poverty without one person in the United States
government lifting a finger to help. He continued in this life,
subsisting on the charity of friends around the world.
The crime that Bobby Fischer is accused of committing was to
play chess in 1992 (12 years ago) in a country against which
there were sanctions. He played because this was the only place
where he was offered this match and a way to earn money –
something he had not had for the previous 17 years. The US
Treasury department apprised him of the ban. To Bobby Fischer,
this was just another slap in the face by his own government.
So, he defied the ban, played chess, and had money to live from
then until now.
Mr. President, our government has punished Bobby Fischer
enough. It is time to show him and the entire world that we are
compassionate people.
Bobby Fischer is not a threat to the United States. In fact,
if you pardon him now and return his passport, he will be able
to come home and once again be a proud citizen of the United
States of America. The world community, much of which has lately
scorned us, would look at us in a new and favorable light.
Especially at this time, I am sure that every chess player in
America – and there are millions of us – will be inclined to
vote to continue a strong, yet compassionate leader in the
office of President. On the other hand, if you do not find it in
your heart to show compassion to this man who has been such an
asset and a loyal citizen of the United States in the past, then
I know of one voter (and I am confident there are millions of
others) who will be sure to do my best to see that the
presidency resides with someone who really cares about America.
Sincerely,
Susan M. Grumer
Exton, PA 19341
Susan Grumer was introduced to the world of
chess as a player on the Men’s Team from the U.S. Virgin
Islands in the 1972 Olympiad in Skopje. After a long absence
from playing the game, she recently returned to chess and
has been helping us on a regular basis with our ChessBase
news site. Susan is a member of the Jewish faith.
