The so-called "liquids threat" is a big fat lie. Stealing your shampoo and toothpaste would have done nothing to mitigate this nonexistent "threat".
Please, feel free to name a single (just one!) "liquid explosive" that can be synthesized airside out of components not readily detectable by Explosives Trace Detection and/or without laboratory conditions. Please, name one.
TSA is lying about liquids being a credible threat. TSA is managed by scumbags.