Just read this thread all the way through.
Am I to believe that airside staff are NOT screened in the USA? Only pilots, cabin crew and passengers?
If that's true its' nuts and I can see why ya'll are getting hot under the collar.
For what it's worth, in UK at least, we're all screened. Random checks, boots off X-ray, the lot.
If we have to have this cr'p then it's all or nothing. No half measures. If I, with access to bits of the aeroplane that many pilots have never even heard of, bits of the aeroplane that can be 'encouraged' to fail in flight, have to be screened then i'm afraid so should everyone else.