Pilots need to show solidarity against this bureacratic nonsense. Yes I am all for "reasonable" and polite security but in the wake of 9/11 a new empire has emerged - "Security".
In the UK if you had told the Railway Signallers or Train Drivers that they could not take liquids (ie food and water etc) to their place of work they would have all come out on strike and the network would have ground to a halt and then, I am sure, the politicians would have done something pretty smartly to get things going again.
Flight crew are in the front line of security - we are the "end users" (as well as pax etc) but we need to communicate to the politicians what is going on at the sharp end as I doubt whether many of them have a clue what we have to go through everyday of our working lives. A day or two of stoppage would soon make them take note!