Giving your biometric data to go to Schengen is one thing. Giving ownership of your identity to the government is something else. Ownership of the card will remain with the government. The fact that your ability or right to use it can be withdrawn (possibly by mistake) is worrying.

I might be wrong, but the weight being lifted at the start of the video is 60kg....

Well, given that the lunatics who are about to get the keys to the asylum are going to do whatever they like regardless, leaving his son in prison when he had the power to get him out would have been gesture politics. Could you do that to your son?