[The FRugitive]

Please tell me you're jokeing.

[toenail]

Hildy's not joking. If you're in a movie mood, "High Crimes" isn't half bad. The DVD's special feature section has a "Lie Detector 101" interview with a (if I'm not mistaken) former FBI agent, saying what one would think is common knowledge: polygraphs are used to elicit confessions from subjects who actually think that polygraphs work. Hildy will probably want Ashcroft to round her up for collusion....

Polygraphs? Ames.

[CyberAnt]

Since you just got to FR on 9/1 - I bet you are the one who is joking; or else you're just a joke!!! LOL

I agree with Hildy - you're either with us or with the terrorists. So far the conversation appeared to be for the terrorists. So ... shut up!!

[aruanan]

Please tell me you're jokeing.

I don't think so, but we can hope. However, given the high level of knee-jerk jingoism on a lot of threads....If someone came up with the idea of singing "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" while waving a U.S. flag with one hand and the other one resting on the Bible in order to demonstrate their "with us"-ness, some of these people would declare those who declined such a moronic exercise as being "with the terrorists". Yeah, witches can't be drowned so our experience indicates either a non-existent population of witches, due to all the drowned non-witches, (which can't be true because we know there are witches) or a specialized ability of witches to avoid having to take the test. Because of this, we can see that anyone who is against the test must, therefore, be either a witch or a witch supporter!

In the case of Muslim terrorists, there exists, indeed, the equivalent of witches. Some people, though, caught up in the hysteria of trying to apprehend them, see every means proposed as being reliable on account of what it promises to deliver, not on what it actually can deliver. Because of this, they see any criticism of the means as support of that which the means was intended to detect. This is truly reasoning on the brain stem level.