This isn't a gun pointed at your head, it's a Terrorist Subdual Tool.

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If we don't call it an ID card, then it isn't an ID card. Nothing that is so, is so.

But what's another lie from John RatBastard Howard? He came out guns blazing when Hawke tried to pull this stunt. And that ID card which wasn't really an ID card wasn't nearly as egregious as this ID card which isn't really an ID card.

RatBastard and his gang of thugs and lackeys can say that the sky is green and that lead is nutritious. That won't make it so. He can say that this isn't an ID card, and a couple of lines in legislation will prevent it ever being so. That ain't so either.

I was going to make a comment about what sort of attempt of an argument he is making, and what contempt it shows he has for our intelligence, but then I realised that 1) he doesn't need to make an argument — he owns the parliament, and fuck all can stop him from doing it, and 2) not only is it violently obvious how much contempt he has for us, mere citizens consumers, that he has gotten away with it for so long — for so many years, over so many elections — shows that his contempt is deserved. As a nation we really have bent over and begged for it.

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Back when I were a lad in the 80s and they were trying to introduce "the Australia Card", (and gods!, how Weasel Howard must rue the fact that that brand name has already been tested on the public,) there was a nice piece of graffiti somewhere between Ringwood and Blackburn which said: "You have an identity. You don't need a card to prove it."