Posted on 04/10/2015 5:39:30 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
“A polygraph is nothing more than a psychological billy club used to coerce and intimidate people,” says Doug Williams, a former Oklahoma City police detective and polygraph examiner who for 36 years has trained people to pass the lie-detector test. The first step is not to be intimidated. Most tests include two types of questions: relevant ones about a specific incident (“Did you leak classified information to The New York Times?”) and broader so-called control questions (“Have you ever lied to anyone who trusted you?”). The test assumes that an innocent person telling the truth will have a stronger reaction to the control questions than to the relevant ones. Before your test, practice deciphering between the two question types. “Go to the beach” when you hear a relevant question, Williams says. Calm yourself before answering by imagining gentle waves and warm sand.
When you get a control question, which is more general, envision the scariest thing you can in order to trigger physiological distress; the polygraph’s tubes around your chest measure breathing, the arm cuff monitors heart rate and electrodes attached to you fingertips detect perspiration. What is your greatest fear? Falling? Drowning? Being buried alive? “Picture that,” Williams says. He used to advise trainees to clench their anus but has since concluded that terrifying mental imagery works better.
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I want Harry Reid on a lie detector and Nancy Pelosi and ask them if they use the “n” word or smoked dope.
Bad idea. Everything will be used AGAINST you. Nothing will be used to exonerate you. They don’t need your help.
And what is that, for us non-EEs?
Well everyone knows the #1 way to get away with lying is to be a Democrat.
EE = Electrical Engineer
i.e. a computer science guy
LoL!
It’s either a very large brazier size or an Electrical Engineer.
I had to take one of those when I was in high school.
“Have you ever tried to touch my Daughter’s breast?”
“Ummmmm.....no.”
Zing!!!
“The machine says you’re lying.”
“OK. OK. Once. I tried to once.”
Zing!!!
“The machine says you’re lying again.”
“Boy it’s hot in here.”
“I suppose it is for lying sex fiends.”
“Well, your daughter is so beautiful.”
“Now, sex fiend, did you ever try to unbutton my Daughter’s shirt?”
“No Sir. I would never try that.”
Zing!!!
“Looks like the machine has caught you lying again.”
“Aren’t those machines usually hooked up to electricity? This looks like you holding a pen on a piece of paper.”
“I’ll ask the questions, sex fiend. Why were you so late getting my Daughter home last weekend?”
“Ummmmm.....we fell asleep at the drive in.”
Zing!!!
“Looks like you’re lying again.”
“Damnit.”
“Have you ever tried to get my Daughter to touch your.....member?”
“Member? I don’t belong to the Elks club.”
If it is the police, use the “conditionally” approach.
i.e. “I’ll take one if you do the same. My operator will ask you questions like ‘Have you ever tampered with or suppressed evidence’, ‘Have you ever taken anything from the evidence room’, ‘have you ever framed a person you knew was innocent’ “, etc.
Betcha they’d never ask you again.
Imagine people just telling the truth.
“I throw PVCs pretty often.(premature ventricular contraction)”
I had that problem when I was 16.
The bra size was scaring me just a little.
“If I was ever being investigated by the police and *knew* I wasn’t guilty I’d give them anything they wanted.Fingerprints...DNA...computers,etc,etc,etc”
you are making several assumptions that history has proven untrue:
1. That police are objective.
2. That police are out trying to find a guilty party.
3. That being innocent means you will not be charged.
4. That being innocent means you will not be convicted.
This is not how it works.
They quickly find the person THEY consider the most likely to have committed a crime and then do their best to prove a case against them.
Anything you say can and will be used against you.
You will be lied to.
You will be tricked.
Get a lawyer. Do not talk to them without a lawyer.
Envision anight in prison, it does both
Simply don’t take one. It’s not good in a court of law. It’d be self incrimination if you don’t pass it.
Addition to the previous post...
If federal agent come to talk to you, there will be two.
Do not talk to them without making it clear you will record the interview in your attorney’s office. They will refuse to be recorded.
Their scam is to have one agent ask questions and the other write down whatever he wants. That written record - if it is the only one - is the sole record of what “you said” and will be accepted by a court as what was actually said, even if you did not say it.
Never make the assumption that any officer is on your side. The Constitution declared rights for a reason.
This sort of advice has been all over the internet since there was one.
Its nothing new.
later
“The interesting thing was the inspector finished the examination then we just sat there for another half hour and shot the bull. To my surprise he mentioned that he noted I had never used a single word of profanity during the entire time. It then struck me that he was still investigating when I thought he had finished and we were just talking.”
I always tell people that a job interview begins at first contact and doesn’t end until the first paycheck. Pretty much the same here.
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