Well, the House of Lords rejected the ID cards bill today for the second time - once more, and we can expect Labour to invoke the Parliament Act for the fourth time in nine years. It's quite funny really. The Parliament Act of 1949 was introduced to limit the ability of the House of Lords to reject legislation passed by the democratically elected House of Commons. Since then, it has been used four times - once by the Conservatives in 1991, and three times by New Labour since 1997. Most people think that it is the Tories who are repressive and authoritarian.

I must admit, I have no confidence in ID cards, and even less confidence in how they likely will eventually be used. For those who say "I have nothing to hide..", think about this. The Jews had nothing to hide, and six million of them didn't live to see the government that had abused them fall from power and become the most despised regime in the history of mankind. When will people realise that freedom and equality are not luxuries to be cast aside on a whim? The State is answerable to the people, not the other way around, and when the people put the chains on themselves willingly and without fuss then the society that so many have fought and died for no longer exists. New Labour got 36% of the vote in the last General Election and retained power. But that ignores the fact that 64% of all the people who voted DO NOT WANT LABOUR IN POWER. For a party who claim to represent the people of Britain, they really represent a tiny minority of the people. This is not democracy. Democarcy is rule by the majority. Not only that, but on the political spectrum, Labour are only a few policies short of being Conservatives and are disturbingly close to the level of authoritarianism championed by the BNP, whose delightful policies include the reintroduction of National Service (which, thanks to the spectacular cock-up by the 'Coalition of the Willing' means that we'd all be sent to die in Iraq) and the immediate deportation of anyone who isn't white. That's a good 50% of the nation then.

ID cards, and anti-terror laws, and anything else that restricts our liberties in order to defend them are utterly wrong. You do not fight fascism by becoming a fascist state. I am strongly left wing. I do not believe in leaders, and I do not belive in imposed order. The people of this world were born free, and if we do not wish to die in chains, we need to do something now. Protest. Fight back. Do not accept that government is the supreme authority. They were appointed by us and they answer to us. As a man called Alan Moore wrote, authority allows two roles; the torturer and the tortured. And I, for one, bow to no-one.