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

Posted by sdesapio 9 years, 11 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 $ winterwind 9 years, 11 months ago
    Yes, Scott, I'm happy to tell you that you are setting a bad example. Congrats!
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rand didn't think about this. Can you imagine what her version of "It Can't Happen Here" might have read like?
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Awesome, thanks. Reading the book (thanks to your comment) "It can't happen here", on which the movie was based. It was (so far) to the DHS what Atlas was to modern government and economics.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 11 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 Lnxjenn 9 years, 11 months ago
    Thumbs Up! :D

    I'm surprised they didn't catch you for extra questioning and then arrest you for terrorism ;)
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 11 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 ewv 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They link the profiles together by common email addresses, IP addresses, etc.
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  • Posted by DougJ 9 years, 11 months ago
    we should all start posting that message around.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 11 months ago
    Excellent! The TSA stand is a most propitious location.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 9 years, 11 months ago
    Would really like to know how long it remained there and how many people noticed it.
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  • Posted by $ KahnQuest 9 years, 11 months ago
    Good thing you got it in early. It's going to take the TSA several weeks to find that sticky note.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 Herb7734 9 years, 11 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 LetsShrug 9 years, 11 months ago
    I will be traveling next month and plan on leaving a crumb trail myself. But hey, why didn't I know about the John Galt post it notes??
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 $ brd76 9 years, 11 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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