The League of Common Sense: asylum seekers

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Lets get some perspective here. This is a common sense approach to a tricky and emotive issue.

Branding all asylum seekers is like branding all blondes or Jews or Muslims.
Go get 'em Mia.

Mamamia

By MIA FREEDMAN

Yesterday, Coalition spokesperson on immigration, Scott

Morrison made some cynical, appalling and patently untrue

suggestions about against asylum seekers.

He was joined almost immediately by Senator Eric Abetz

who did some even more distasteful dog whistling, in a

revolting attempt to rustle up fear, anxiety and hatred.

What’s that smell? Oh that’s right. It’s the smell of an election

year. And it’s putrid.

Here are the facts:

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