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Am I setting a bad example? I sure hope so. #JohnGalt2014

Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 10 months ago to Movies
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On my way back from the Atlas Summit in New Hampshire yesterday at 4:30AM, I found myself first in line at the TSA check point. Am I setting a bad example? I sure hope so. #JohnGalt2014

Win a trip to the ASP3 Premiere. Get your Who Is John Galt? Post-its here: http://bit.ly/ASP3-Post-Its

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
    To post a John Galt Post-It in a TSA screening area where you know there is thorough camera coverage takes some serious guts, Scott. Well done!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 10 months ago
    Thank you.
    For the bad example and giving me my first laugh of the day. While my travels are limited, from now on, I'm taking a pad of post-it notes and a black marker with me wherever I go. If I'm caught, being an old guy, I'll plead dementia.
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  • Posted by $ brd76 9 years, 10 months ago
    That is awesome!!! Unfortunately only a select few passerby will actually know the answer, even more unfortunate is the minuscule portion of people who's curiosity will be piqued to the point that they will want to find out the answer to this question…and actually do it.
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    • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 10 months ago
      But the point is "How many people will see it on the Internet at YouTube or even on television?". May I make a suggestion to everyone posting pics of their Post-It Notes on Youtube as awebb and Scott DeSapio are recommending? Create a new YouTube profile that takes at least a little effort for someone from the NSA or other Obama administration agency (FBI?) to figure out. The first few posters could be easy targets.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 10 months ago
    Even taking that photo of the TSA installation was dicey. God, that's funny. If I was behind you in line at the airport I'd ask you to let me buy you a beer in the bar after that...
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 10 months ago
    Even if you avoid video capture you better be careful, when TSA turns the Post-It's in to the National Police Force (Homeland Security), they will be taking finger prints off those Post-It Notes, and then you just might be getting a tax audit.
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 10 months ago
    On second thought you just might be lucky you didn't get caught taking the pictures in the direction of TSA. They could have detained you for days, accusing you of casing the place.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 10 months ago
    Look carefully at those photographs from that airport screening operation.

    Forty-six years ago, a failed pilot called "Shadow on the Land" (dir. Richard Shafelson; with Marc Strange, John Forsythe, and Jackie Cooper; Screen Gems, 1967) went to air in April of 1968. The premise: a neo-Nazi-like takeover of the United States. The symbolism was a reworking of American symbols with a subtle Nazi flavor.

    And early in that picture, the story's hero gets off a plane and flashes his ID to clear security. And security, with armbanded and uniformed guards at LAX, looks suspiciously like the TSA today.
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    • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 10 months ago
      Interesting premise, as we stand upon that slippery slope thought way too far out there to be real.

      As an interesting side note... when I first saw the trailer for it I noticed, right at the end of the screen credits, one of the actors... at first I thought it was our very own MM, but then realized that the actor's name was Margotta... Plus, *our* Mike would have been pretty young back then...

      I wonder if our current ISF allows said movie to be sold. Or the book it was written from. Too bad it didn't take off; maybe people would have remembered it and we wouldn't be in the pickle we're in today.
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      • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 10 months ago
        The only place where any copy is available--and it is probably a bootleg transfer--is:

        http://www.raredvds.biz/

        Screen Gems, which is to say, the old TV production unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has NO plans to release this pilot in any market. Not even for showing as an Early Show (I don't even think any station does that any more, in any market) or a Late Show.

        It didn't take off because nobody believed it. Or maybe because Lyndon Johnson (who was President then) picked up the phone and twisted a few arms. If you recall that "trailer," you'll hear the voice-over narrator making a pointed, repeated reference to "all the people." That was when racial tensions were higher than they are even today.

        Here is my own review of "Shadow," with two embedded videos that I think you'll find interesting:

        http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/...
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