Death to the U.S.

From the Globe and Mail "Death to the U.S. They are the worst liars and bastards" - quotes from Bobby Fischer made on Phillippine radio after 9/11 attacks.

I was happy. I could not really believe what has happened. I just can't be crying about the U.S., you know. All the crimes the U.S. is committing all over the world. This just shows, what goes around comes around, even to the United States . . . I applaud the act. Look, nobody gets that the U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians for years . . . I wanna see the U.S. wiped out.

Brillant but crazy. (And we aren't sure about the brilliant.) His sentiments, however, are widely shared. He just isn't sane enough to hide his hatred in carefully contrived news stories and relentless criticism.

You get the feeling the Globe and Mail enjoyed repeating Fischer's remarks. It's really not hate speech when it's a news story according to Canadian free speech regulators. (See Al-Jazeera stories.)