Originally Posted by
Scubatooth
If it came to that I would show and I bet I could pull amateurs and professionals in the area that would make a pack of paparazzi look small and unorganized.
Plus a flash at full power at close ran would have a blue shirt seeing stars for a while, multiply that by 10, 50, 100+ and you'd have chaos at the checkpoint with blue shirts heads spinning to the point of liftoff (more then normal).
An intelligent STSO or TSM would close that checkpoint if the flashes were strong enough to interfere with the screening process (and based on your description, that is exactly what would be happening). Then they would ask the LEO to come talk to you. The people that would truly be inconvenienced would be the passengers trying to fly out, and the folks that would be seen as the cause, would be your band of photogs. Maybe a little different type of plan would be more productive for your cause?