"forced to carry a card that not only identifies you but which also contains comprehensive information about you"

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Who has suggested any such thing? Why assume that if such a document were required to be carried it would be bound to give such information? Its content, once the wisdom of some form of identification being a useful thing for any citizen to carry had been agreed, would be a matter of debate. Why for crying out loud are you all so paranoid as to what dire secrets of your existence it would inevitably reveal?   But it would make sense if it just showed your name, address, next of kin, blood group...

Jim would, I daresay, claim to be an advocate of freedom of speech -- in his dreams. Why, just have the nerve to suggest that one of his ogres might have had something to be said for them; then wind him up and set him down & listen to him go! I didn't have to 'mount any campaigns' to find out your politics, Jim. I simply pointed out that your statements made them appear to tend more leftwards than otherwise. It was your own incurable paranoia that made you think that meant that I cared a flying piggiturd which stinking bloody party you might belong to. I couldn't give a flying one if you are a member of the Martian Independence From Jupiter Party...