Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
I did not make my point, obviously. Markjoy and others should understand that airport security does NOT make you safer. It does NOTHING to stop a terrorist. Rarely does a terrorist use a real weapon to take over an airplane, they will use whatever is available and not banned by airport security; bottles, alcohol, small knives and razors etc, or use threats and devices such as tv remotes (a successful hijacking) and inhalers, or use nothing but their fists and a threatening attitude (Algeria).
You and all of us are going through that charade for NOTHING. It is a scam and the implied promise that if you allow yourself to be treated like a criminal you will be made safer is a disgraceful lie. The authorities should be held liable when their pathetic posturing is exposed, as it will be when the (fortunately very rare) next hijacking takes place despite them.