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We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
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Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
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Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
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There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
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Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
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There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
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Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
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