To the brave slf poster above, the pertinent points are to prove security pretty pointless for air crew, and those are iterated with reference to large amounts of kerosene, tonnes of metal under our control. If we are a security threat, requiring checks as to whether we have more than 100ml of liquid in our bags, why are we allowed a license and crew pass which gives us access to the aircraft and its controls? What is the point in checking us at all, taking a benign bottle of water from us yet still then allowing us access to the flight deck and its firefighting equipment, some of which could be construed, in the wrong hands as a deadly weapon?
The answer is that there is no point. No point whatsoever. It is needless, futile and a waste time and money.
Trying to appease us as to why the idiocy occurs is similarly futile. The fact is that it occurs and it's daft.