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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.
Jonathan Shapiro
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You can't undo a deportation.
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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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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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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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Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
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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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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
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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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Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
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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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