Day 32
Today, I was supposed to write a letter to a dictator urging him or her to stop torture. The barbed-wire-wrapped candle implied Amnesty International was involved, so I decided to accomplish this through them. The great thing about sending emails to dictators and such through Amnesty International is that you don't really have to do anything. They give you a nice pre-written email, and all you have to do is sign in and send click "send." Yes, it would be better to write an email myself, but in any case other than today, I would put it off until the day after I die. I didn't do exactly as directed- I sent an email to our own president, who is not technically a dictator. However, the United States being a country with a great deal of power and all, I decided to start locally, and email Obama. The message detailed the fact that countering terrorism with torture is pretty much just a big pile of crap. I liked what it said, and the way it was written (a tad more eloquently than my summary), so I sent it.
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