In any conversation you may have this weekend or in weeks and months and years to come about asylum seekers, the same old lines will come up. “They should join the queue” and “We need to stop the boats to prevent tragedies like the one on Christmas Island ” and “We already have too many refugees in this country”.

These lines frequently make me want to throw things at people or radios. I will never understand those who can’t  see the human tragedy in people who are  refused asylum or who are being treated like criminals for trying to escape tyranny and fear.

Watch this ad from Amnesty International and pass it on:

So instead of throwing something,  media professional  and blogger par excellence, Rick Morton (who wrote the magnificent post 17 Arguments Against Gay Marriage And Why They’re Wrong – which was FB shared 870 times by MM readers) has come up with this brilliant list: 10 Reasons Why You’re Wrong About Asylum Seekers”. Rick writes: