Perhaps security pester aircrew just as much as civilians because they can't tell the difference between a real crew and someone who just bought the uniform at a fancy dress store.
But as "security" they should be able to recognise an ID card when they see one, and act accordingly. Sadly they don't.
The REAL problem is that there is no difference between these idiots and someone who has been to a fancy dress store and bought a "security" uniform. That is where the problem lies.
The really scary thing to my mind is that the UK Govt clearly don't rate airside security passes as worth a damn from all the hassle we get, despite their being based on the much-vaunted infalllible "Disclosure Scotland" farce (for those non UK here, it is essentially a cursory criminal record check - not caught = OK!!! - and a personal statement taken on trust that they aren't terrorists- cos HMG knows no one would lie on an official form, they wouldn't dare be such dishonest rotters, would they?)
No sh!t guys, this is how naiive HMG is...and yet they are going to use us paragons (pariahs in "security" search) of social virtue (they know we are beyond safe beyond doubt because of disclosure Scotland...) as guinea-pigs for the introduction of the new "infallible" national ID card that won't be mandatory to carry unless you're aircrew...That is how muddled their "logic" is.
And in the Times today there is a photo of armed Police at an incident in London wearing, oh yes, unmistakably, Nazi Wermacht battle helmets. I kid you not.
Getting the picture?