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Jonathan Shapiro

"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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"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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"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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"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
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"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."
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"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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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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