As enfuriating as they can be individual acts of defiance against purile security measures taken against professional aircrew are akin to pissing into a howling gale. Much better to simply smile at the morons and then put the delay down to them.
Don't wrap yourself up in a knot of tension over an inability to access your workplace because no-one is there who is authorised to give you access...just smile and wait...when you haven't turned up to the flightdeck because some moron was not where he was supposed to be put the delay down to them. Having arrived in the cockpit with half the usual time for preflight preparation DO NOT do said preparation in half the usual time out of some misguided desire to maintain schedule.
When your employer suggests turning up early but not signing on until the usual 1 hr before STD simply decline in the nicest possible way.
Sooner or later airlines will see that 30 minute turn arounds just became impossible...and that trips previously completed within one tour of duty cannot be completed anymore.
When QF,
VB and Jet * + sundry subsidiaries file complaints with DOTARS or the minister then, and only then will things be improved.
As for the moronic rules pertaining to light aircraft security...well if AOPA/sundry type associations or whomever don't have the ability to influence then who does? I completely agree that if some terrorist organisation wants to crash an explosive laden C210 into parliament house then they can just buy one...would they not be doing us a big favour in the end anyway?
I'll bet that the next truck/car bomb will not lead to similarly draconian security measures against car owners...too much political downside to that scenario.
No matter how many individuals point out to the Politicians how stupid some of this stuff is it will have no measurable effect. Remember that over 90% of the population never fly anywhere...but are still terrified about dying in a hijacking...thanks almost entirely to scare mongering Politicians.
Keeping your population in a perpetual state of war...or fear of war...is one of the most effective forms of Govt control...what better way to stay in Power?
Al Quaida have already won...they don't need to follow up 911 with another similar attack....merely keeping the various Govts believing they are going to is enough to cause far more financial damage with no risk to themselves.
Brilliant tactics.