Tue, 30 Jan 2007
UK Home Secretary John Reid is to introduce compulsory lie detector tests for the first time in Britain with compulsory polygraph tests of monitor sex offenders after their release from jail - reports the
Sunday Times.
When will this scheme be extended, first to other criminals and then to anyone arrested or travelling? (It has already been
suggested that ‘passengers flying from international hubs such as Heathrow and Gatwick could even face a lie-detector test before they board’.)
For more information, ie debunking of the polygraph, look no further than the excellent
Deception blog. Also recommended is
The truth about the lie detector article published in the New Statesman.
Did you know that the polygraph was invented by William Moulton Marston, who under the pen name Charles Moulton also created the comic book character
Wonder Woman and its magical
Lasso of Truth?
The FBI file William Moulton Marston has been published by
AntiPolygraph as a
PDF and is worth skimming. The file includes characterisations of Marson, by the FBI, such as 'I always thought this fellow Marston was a phoney & this proves it' and 'He is a crackpot'. To work at the FBI today, one must undergo a lie-detector test!
