I have had my lie detector experience and at first I was like many who post on this and many other web pages, an antipolygraph advocate.  My biggest shame in life is what I had become when I could not face up to the truth of my actions.  In retrospect I could not have done so without taking the lie detector test.

I committed a minor crime and tried to pin it on someone else.  As the investigation proceeded I found myself backed into taking a lie detector test.  I attempted the countermeasures and failed and eventually told the truth.  It hurt, but the most painful thing to me was what I had become.  I got myself right and encourage anyone who reads this to do the same.  Instead of attacking the right or wrong of lie detectors, shouldn't the focus be on being more honest and responsible people?

formerofficer - you need some serious help sweetie.  You are sort of like Don Quioti (please forgive the spelling if it is incorrect), in that you are attacking lie detectors like windmills.  Before you dole out advice get yourself right, all the way.