Polygraph James Bauhaus

      A large portion of disgraced, unscrupulous ex-cops operate the lie detector industry. (see: "polygraphs and confessions") Their product is used solely to convict people unless they are excessively paid by affluent, influential targets. I scrutinized many of these services in the Dallas-FT Worth area while I was a refugee from Oklahoma's show-death and enslavement industry. Not one was free of police taint, but I tried some anyway. The first and worst one kept a shotgun in plain sight behind his desk. His need of such massive firepower and the protection it provides told me what type of person he is. He quickly proved my evaluation correct by determining I was to use his services to become unconvicted. He refused me the test and even had the effrontery to ask for a free look at my driver's liscense. (see: "lie detection facts.")

1. All the others I visited were much the same as he. Soon as they deduced their test would be used to unconvict me, the all refused, became intensly inquisitive and would not even rent their machine for an excessive profit. (Even a buffon can quickly learn to run it. Their exceedingly suspicious and sly behavior is for good reason, as is their paranoia.) Lie detection is almost completely worthless. What little worth it does possess lies almost exclusively in the psychological arena. Since it detects anxiety more than anything else, it is good for coercing confessions out of the guilty and for framing the innocent. It has no effect on the self-confident innocent person. When a technician finds one of this types of accusees, the machine records nothing but normal readings. Being paranoids themselves, trained to be suspicious of everyone, operators conjure up visions of calamities to explain the lack of readings they can point to as deceptions. They pull out folklore and nonsense such as "psychopaths can lie truthfully", "he used the police method of beating the machine; tranquilizers", "he is guilty, but he erased all memory of the crime", or "he mentally reversed the questions and told the truth about them." The most cunning myth I've heard these charlatans spew is the nonsense that repeated tests become more conclusive and accurate because “the dirty get dirtier and the clean get cleaner.” This was in response to their failure to soil the Ramsey's after multiple attempts. This sly wisdom sounds logical if accepted without thought. The opposite is true: the more rehearsals, the better the performance. Nobody gets worse with practice.

     Another sad fact is polygraph tests are worthless both because the operators are biased and because they are incapable of detecting innocence or guilt. If you are guilty and you accept their pre-test indoctrination assuring you the machine is nigh-on to infallible, the operator hiding behind you will get squiggles he can proclaim indicate your guilt despite the fact no polygraph has ever reliably detected any lies. This fact has been proven time and again by numerous studies by scientists (not experts) world-wide. The only reason police and lawcrats still use this flagrant charlatanism to continue to affect courtroom justice is because courtrooms and police stations are staffed with many charlatans.