NZ-that's good.
In the US we are not required to have a SIDA badge. I avoided sitting for about two hours in the class, out of principal. It seemed totally asinine that a pilot needs to watch anything to learn about ramp security. We taxi around and fly these planes to many US airports. Some topics we watch in annual training have classified info. If a ramp worker two hundred feet away is not wearing a secrity badge, then we can not be expected to notice it, all the time, unless they stand still in front of us.
If the US had many fewer bureaucracies, it is possible that the 9/11 mass murders would not have happened. The more government departments we have, the more sacred turf needs to be protected, in order to justify their (sometimes) bloated staffing.
Don't get me wrong. These departments (especially ATC) often do an excellent job, but there are so many law enforcement agencies, it just seems bizarre, in my opinion. We fly airplanes and we don't have time to look all over a person at a distance to determine if they have an id card. My normal reasons to walk down to the outside of the plane are to look at something which the FO believes could need maintenance, or to help bring up a kid's stroller. Or ask a mechanic/engineer whether we should delay boarding and for about how long (enough time to get a barbecue pork sandwich at Interstate, or a Quizno's? .
Few sandwiches are better than smoked/seasoned Schweinfleisch).