Originally Posted by stimpy
They did and still do enforce border control when they are afraid of soccer hooligans entering their country to cause havoc. It is quite simple to stop a bunch of passengers on a EZ jet flight who fit a profile. Same for those who drive in. But that doesn't affect the rest of us.
Stimpy, I am very surprised to read that statement from you. Apparently you support the idea of profiling, for example, young male Englishmen when Manchester United is playing a German team. Of course, it is obvious that some of those young men might not even be interested in soccer, much less be hooligans.
The reason I am so surprised is that you have expressed your disagreement with profiling in the past.
On a thread dealing precisely with that, intobsv posted, "I guess I will never understand people that say that Middle Eastern looking people should not be targeted by airline security personnel. Please explain to me why a 65 year old woman is as much a danger as a 24 year old Arab Muslim."
Your reply in the following post was a sarcastic, "I think we should profile all blond haired blue-eyed people with short hair. You never know when another Timothy McVeigh could be lurking out there."
How do you justify profiling, say, young Englishmen but not young Arabs?