Ardoise is the name of the new database used by the french police to record crimes and day to day activity. If your car is stolen, you’ll get your record, if your stereo was too loud during your last birthday party, you also have a record, and of course, if you murdered somebody, you’re also gonna get your personal record, in fact, if you ever have anything to do with the french police, you’ll get your record.
So what’s wrong with it? Well… It you’re gay, you’re going to be flagged as a gay in the database (or if your a union delegate, or a transexual, etc).
Not really helpfull today, since gays in France are not really in any danger… but stay with me.
During the 1930s, in the Netherlands, the government decided they should give money to various church and in order to give an amout in relation to the size of each religion in the country, they filed every protestant, catholic and jew in the country… just to count.
Can you guess what happenend a few years later when the Nazis invaded the country?
One more thing: can you trust the french police? Same answer. During WW2, law and Nazi order was maintained in France by only a few thoursand Nazi soldiers… and the help of the french police (compare that to the 160k US soldier in Irak, a much smaller country).
Not surprisingly, one of the main police union (Synergie) in France told the press they ‘were not shoked’…
