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Most of us understand the common polygraph. All it amounts to is a device that crudely records physiological responses. The operator makes a big deal of wiring up the subject, asks a few questions and records the physical response of the body. So, let's say the subject under investigation is like Bill Clinton, an "exceptionally good liar." What would the polygraph operator see? Probably nothing. And, that is exactly why polygraph data are not allowed to be used in court. Clearly, the results are not dependable.

Other devices are just about as undependable.

Brain Fingerprinting uses sophisticated equipment that is more complicated to operate and produces results even more difficult to analyze accurately. Does it work? Maybe. But, I wouldn't bet any money on it.

So, how may we be sure that the electrical activity received means the same in every subject? Fact is, we cannot.

I would guess that even if a valid lie detector was invented, it would not be allowed as evidence in a trial for a long time. The people who have the most to fear from a real lie detector, (politicians, lawyers, judges), are the very people who would have to make it legal!

My tinfoil hat resists the brain scanner!

My favorite "lie dector" story [perhaps apocryphal, but funny nonetheless] was of a policeman who wired a collandar to his office copy machine and put it on the suspect's head. Any time the suspect said something the policeman didn't believe, a sheet of paper would pop out saying "YOU'RE LYING'. Supposedly this was enough to make the suspect confess.

But, would it work with liberals?

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A very dear friend of mine, Jim Newman, who was CEO of PACE a company dedicated to perfecting communication between people and used by many corporations to enhance communication between management and workers, during a visit to his home in Studio City asked if we would be interested in seeing if plant life reacted to basic threats or comfort and careing.

He hooked a big plant up to a polygraph machine and then he lit a match and threatened the leaf with the proximity of the heat. The needle went nuts. He then played music and the needle reacted lazily. He stroked the plant and the needle reacted somewhere between being threatened and listening to music. Made a believer out of me.

There is no doubt that the body reacts to telling lies. But if you are an accomplished liar and lieing is something you do even when the truth would do, then it would be easy to fool the machine. Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Hillary would all pass a lie detector test hands down. Lieing is second nature to them. Tipper would show a lie. Carville and Bagalia would not. When subterfuge is how you are reared then the stress of lieing is muted. It is a way of life. I am referring also to the education these people recieved at the hands of communists.

The fundamental difference between a perpetrator and a falsely accused, innocent person is that the perpetrator, having committed the crime, has the details of the crime stored in his brain, and the innocent suspect does not.

Since my forgetter works better than my rememberer this thing wouldn't be able to tell me where I set my coffee cup down yesterday or was it the day before? Hell, I can't remember.