[jxofzshn] The mistake of not pardoning Fischer

Three reasons why Fischer should have been pardoned for violating economic sanctions against Yugoslavia in playing a chess match there.

1. The sanctions law when passed was not meant to be applied to situations like this.

2. The site of Yugoslavia was chosen by Fischer decades ago, with Spassky preferring Iceland.

3. The match was a form of speech, a political protest about the war.

Why was he not pardoned?  I speculate that it was punishment for his anti-Semitic and anti-American speech.  If so, we have the law, encompassing official pardoning mechanisms, being applied unequally to people depending on their speech, violating the principle of freedom of speech.

Examine exactly what happened internally leading to rejection of pardoning and continued open case.  I suspect an abuse of power.