Originally Posted by stimpy
Dovester, I'm against racial profiling. Some English soccer hooligans ARE Arabs! I don't see a problem profiling drunken young men with St. George's Cross tatoos or face paintings and M-U jerseys on during the eve of a big soccer match. Especially as many of these men are already known to the police due to past transgressions. The British Home Office has kindly informed the police in other countries whom to look out for.
If their names appear on a list supplied by the British government, then it is not profiling.
Profiling would consist of looking more closely at all young British men coming in during the soccer match. Of course, after talking to them many may well still be allowed to enter the country. Profiling, after all, does not mean automatic banning -- it simply alerts police or security officials to check the profiled individual more closely than they would somebody who does not fit the profile.