You are misinformed about the perceived risk. The common argument is that a pilot can (obviously) cause harm if he desires by taking the machine with him and so security screening is a waste of time. It is not. By not screening you would open up a group of tens of thousands to potential coercion and being suborned into acts under duress. Screening significantly reduces this risk / scenario and it is prudent to guard against it. It is presumably infinitley harder to find an intelligent pilot willing to act in the former manner than it would be to find and coerce one to act under duress from a huge group that are unscreened. You show very little understanding of the risk (in fact none).

I do beg your pardon. I had assumed (one does have to occasionally) that since you quoted this item that it was in defence of the argument that deadheaders should be able to cut the line. I had not unreasonably in my view assumed that anyone attempting to further this argument was most likely a crew member themselves (or perhaps have been at one time or closley associated to). If you are not in that category, then I apologise but I would wonder why you appear to support the argument.