Ahh Christ!!!
Are you dumb ?!
You really got the point here did you ?!!
It's not about anyone being above the law.
It's not about not complying with security regs.
It's about the argument for anyone involved in security, to logically reason why flight-crew, who is ultimately in charge of pax-security, to remove petty objects and personal property because some low ranked Iq-dweeb deems it necessary to preserve passenger-safety.
We do our job every-day to fly pax safely from A-B. Can you imagine the irritation it creates being bossed around by some guy claiming you are a security risk ??
How can you make an argument to justify such behaviour ?
That the potential threat is a disguised pilot crashing the aircraft somewhere ??!!
That would mean the same thing as if someone impersonated a security-officer and gave a pax free journey to the A/C with 10 Kg of C4.
My point is this: There is no argument what so ever to justify security-check of any air-crew!?
If so, let's hear them, and I'll give you better arguments against it!!