Originally Posted by
star_world

Even on a thread where someone tries to add a glimmer of postiveness to this forum there is still the same ranting. Your above text should be just posted in a sticky at the top of this forum so anyone who wants to read it (once) can do so. We get it. TSA = bad. DHS = bad. But this doesn't need to be brought up again and again and again when people are trying to make constructive comments, does it?
Frankly she has it right. There are a few positives and remain a lot of negatives.
If you want, I can give you a diatribe about my last experience at Gatwick, wherein the entire security process made the TSA folks at several of the better US airports look like models of decorum and efficiency.