I am going to PREFACE this by saying this has NOTHING to do with you personally. Many of us on FT travel extensively and many of us grew up with going to the gates and watching friends and relatives planes leaving from the gate. It was when I was a young child I knew I wanted to fly all over the world.

Those dreams will never be experienced with this new generation. Instead there's a blarring intercom "...the threat level is ORANGE" as if to scare the public, in my opinion George Bush's way of keeping everyone in check by creating a false sense of security.

Your comment of "if it was up to us there would be no liquids whatsoever" for you to say that, then you cannot be a frequent traveler. The millions of dollars confiscated by the TSA - without batting an eye - of people's property from bottles of fragrance, to make-up, water, etc., has done enough damage. Most TSA people are nice, some think they are all that....

Having everything fit into "ONE" ziplock back on a carry on is such a joke, I can't even explain it. This is someone who has to go through your checkpoints more than he disables his home security system.

If it was up to the traveling public, the TSA would be a shell of what it is today - and spend the money looking for real terrorists.

Again, nothing against you personally, but since you brought the subject up...

UG