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Friday, 18 January 2008
Chess champion Bobby Fischer dies
Icelandic TV and radio announced today that chess playing genius Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64,
Information on the cause of death has not yet been released.
During his life Fischer was accused of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism (despite being born in the US and being of Jewish descent). He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005.
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks on America, Bobby Fischer was a rare western voice speaking off-message. Live on Filipino radio he said.......
"This is all wonderful news, I applaud the act. The US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a shit. Now it's coming back to the US. Fuck the US. I want to see the US wiped out. Death to the US."
archive....
Chess Boxing
http://site.wcbo.org/
the ultimate challenge for both the body and the mind
Information on the cause of death has not yet been released.
During his life Fischer was accused of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism (despite being born in the US and being of Jewish descent). He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005.
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks on America, Bobby Fischer was a rare western voice speaking off-message. Live on Filipino radio he said.......
"This is all wonderful news, I applaud the act. The US and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. Nobody gave a shit. Now it's coming back to the US. Fuck the US. I want to see the US wiped out. Death to the US."
archive....
Chess Boxing
http://site.wcbo.org/
the ultimate challenge for both the body and the mind
Friday, 7 December 2007
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Monday, 3 September 2007
Jamie Whyte on "Drugs"
".........The real question is not whether drug use has costs. Every activity has. The question is whether these costs exceed the benefits of drug use. It is easy to show that they do not, but we should first recognise what the main benefit is. This should be obvious but, for some reason, nobody involved in “the drugs debate” ever mentions it. The main benefit of taking drugs is that it is pleasurable. In fact, it can be incredibly pleasurable. That is why people do it."
"And also why it is good for them. Drug users are simply people for whom the pleasure outweighs the risk of death, illness, addiction and all the rest. In other words, they are people for whom the benefits of drug use exceed the costs. They wouldn’t be drug users otherwise. The same is not true of everyone. Some value health more and pleasure less. For them, drug taking would deliver a net loss. Fine: these people would not take drugs even if they were legal."
".........legislators systematically discount the benefits of drugs. It is not enough that people value something. To count it as a benefit, our betters in Westminster must deem it worthwhile. And they do not consider getting high to be worthwhile."
"It is not concern for our welfare that explains the illegality of drug use. It is bigotry."
(Jamie Whyte January 2, 2006 in the Times)
plus a report from march 2007:
Illegal drugs can be harmless, report says
a wide-ranging two-year study of Britain's drug laws concluded today that "The evidence suggests that a majority of people who use drugs are able to use them without harming themselves or others. They are able, in that sense, to 'manage' their drug use ... The harmless use of illegal drugs is thus possible, indeed common,"
Describing the Misuse of Drugs Act as unwieldy and inflexible, the report says: "It sends people to prison who should not be there. It forces people into treatment who do not need it"
"Drugs policy should, like our policy on alcohol and tobacco, seek to regulate use and prevent harm rather than to prohibit use altogether,"
"And also why it is good for them. Drug users are simply people for whom the pleasure outweighs the risk of death, illness, addiction and all the rest. In other words, they are people for whom the benefits of drug use exceed the costs. They wouldn’t be drug users otherwise. The same is not true of everyone. Some value health more and pleasure less. For them, drug taking would deliver a net loss. Fine: these people would not take drugs even if they were legal."
".........legislators systematically discount the benefits of drugs. It is not enough that people value something. To count it as a benefit, our betters in Westminster must deem it worthwhile. And they do not consider getting high to be worthwhile."
"It is not concern for our welfare that explains the illegality of drug use. It is bigotry."
(Jamie Whyte January 2, 2006 in the Times)
plus a report from march 2007:
Illegal drugs can be harmless, report says
a wide-ranging two-year study of Britain's drug laws concluded today that "The evidence suggests that a majority of people who use drugs are able to use them without harming themselves or others. They are able, in that sense, to 'manage' their drug use ... The harmless use of illegal drugs is thus possible, indeed common,"
Describing the Misuse of Drugs Act as unwieldy and inflexible, the report says: "It sends people to prison who should not be there. It forces people into treatment who do not need it"
"Drugs policy should, like our policy on alcohol and tobacco, seek to regulate use and prevent harm rather than to prohibit use altogether,"
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