Opposition to a new security database is gaining momentum in France as people return to work after a summer break during which the government authorized the state to store personal information on people as young as 13.
The decree creating the "Edvige" electronic database appeared in the official gazette on July 1, when the country was winding down for the summer, but news of its content has been gradually filtering out and is now stirring fierce criticism.
Doesn't that remind you of someone?
President Nicolas Sarkozy came to power last year promising tough action against crime, a major theme in his campaign, and critics say Edvige is part of the government's drive to woo voters at the expense of personal freedoms.
And that?
"With just a few clicks of the mouse, any government official or civil servant will have access to intimate data," said opposition politician Francois Bayrou earlier this week.
How about that?
It seems to me very much that politicians are worthless scum around the world. They all need a fucking good kicking.
Cunts.
(PS I've got first dibs on the Widow Sarkozy!)
4 comments:
It's utterly depressing to know that people in this country wouldn't do anything.
Communism would have best been trialled in the UK: would anyone have complained? No. We would have got on with queuing, moaning and then not doing anything about it.
Wait till the French Database is merged with the Krauts and the British one.
In general the French protest about things we disagree with. If they protest about this (block ferry ports etc) you never know, it might actually spread across over here, fingers crossed. I still find it worrying that just when the conservatives look like getting back in is when I'm thinking about protests - I've always been a tory
Old Holdborn's got the point. Did anyone really not guess the UK database was designed to be matched up with the other nations of the EU at a later date? It will have been decided behind closed oors of course.
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