You won't actually have to carry the card on you at all times, the proposal is that you'll be given a "producer" like they give you for your driving licence etc. when you get pulled over in the car. So if you're wearing a stove pipe hat and carrying a large ticking bomb presumably they'll give you a form and you have to report to your local police station to have it stamped at a later date, thus winning the "war on terror" or something. I'm fairly ambivalent about the whole thing myself, the civil liberties arguments just make me think "what, and the bastards can't/won't do those things to me already?". One thing that springs to mind is that under these circumstances is if there's a march/demo they want to stop then they might individually serve every marcher with a producer thus reducing the flow of people to a trickle.
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