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Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods

by northwest on 8/17/13, 2:34 PM with 4 comments

• by mindcrime on 8/18/13, 4:51 AM

  Polygraphs are voodoo science anyway, and are about as reliable as a 1970 AMC Gremlin with a load of sand in the carburetor and half the spark-plug wires missing.

  But this is absolutely unconscionable. We DO have a right to free speech, and to attempt to prosecute somebody simply teaching skills, shows that our government no longer has any credibility - it has connection to the government we intended to found, and no validity. Our government is the enemy now. So if the NSA, FBI, CIA, ATF, DOJ and friends want to treat us like the enemy, then fine... we'll be the enemy.

• by hondje on 8/17/13, 3:02 PM

  By attempting to prosecute the instructors, federal officials are adopting a controversial legal stance that sharing such information should be treated as a crime and isn’t protected under the First Amendment in some circumstances.

  “Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.”

  “There are a lot of bad people out there. . . . This will help us remove some of those pests from society,”

  We're letting this happen. I am so sad.

• by northwest on 8/17/13, 3:22 PM

  > “Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.”

  Because we're all so close to dying from terrorism:

  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/president-obama-the-o...

• by Shivetya on 8/17/13, 7:44 PM

  Thought police.

  First they create hate speech, then they go after political speech, and now they anti-terrorism speech.