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I agree 100%.  If something you chose to do in your life was a bad choice, so be it.  Take responsibility for it and accept the consequences.

You said in another post that if you tell the truth you will be "done."  There's no harm in trying, so you might as well be honest and see if you get the job.  If you don't you can apply somewhere else, or find something else to do with your life.

No LE agency is expecting to hire perfect people.  You will not be DQ'd if you got a speeding ticket or stole a candy bar from the 7-11 when you were in high school.  If you have serious crimes in your past then law enforcement/government service is probably not the best career choice.

meameame12 wrote on Aug 4^th, 2005 at 6:21am:

In my opinion, the information on this site is designed to educate people on the pseudo-scientific fraud that is the polygraph.  Information on countermeasures is provided so that truthful people can protect themselves from a false positive.   

The information is not here to help people lie about things they chose to do in the past.  If there was a reasonable method of making the information available only to truthful people then that's what would be done.  As it stands, in order for truthful people to access the information it must be freely available to anyone.

I'm sure there have been liars and criminals who have come to this site to find out how to "beat" the polygraph.  That's too bad.

It's too bad because, to their shame and discredit, our government and many law enforcement agencies choose to rely on a "test" which can be defeated after a few minutes of studying a web site which provides instructions on how to alter your breathing pattern and/or do long division in your head.