Airline Passengers Face Lie Detector Tests at Moscow Airports
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
London Daily Telegraph
Millions of airline passengers travelling through Russia will soon have to take a lie detector test as part of new security measures. The technology, to be introduced at Moscow's Domodedovo airport as early as July, is intended to identify terrorists and drug smugglers. If successful, it could revolutionise check-ins.
Passengers will pick up the handset of a "truth verifier" machine while they are asked questions. Apparently the machine, developed by an Israeli company, can even establish whether answers come from the memory or the imagination.
I'm not sure but I think there was just an expose on American TV about this device, or definitely something very similar, being marketed by an American firm as being able to pick out lies based on voice tambor. The Americna report said that the device was bogus and had no scientific proof to back it up, accusing the marketer of being a sham.
The idea of Russia using such a device by means of the KGB/FSB to grab whoever it likes in any airport for whatever reason is horrifying, a sure sign of the rise of the neo-Soviet Union (see http://russophobe.blogspot.com/ for more on this)
I still remember being easily able to board Russian international flights carrying a small keychain pen knife that always got blocked in other countrys' security.
Here we go again with a propaganda running contrary to the facts.
America's Homeland Security isn't a threat to freedom unlike Russian attempts to curtail terrorism.
I've heard mixed reviews about the mentioned device.
"Here we go again with a propaganda running contrary to the facts. America's Homeland Security isn't a threat to freedom unlike Russian attempts to curtail terrorism."
This is outrageous, neo-Soviet propaganda from Mike Averko. I never said one word about Homeland Security not being a threat to freedom, and I certainly believe that it is. I oppose many measures taken by Homeland Security, and it has been WIDELY attacked in the American press.
But the fact that Mussolini murdered many people does not excuse Hitler from doing so or prevent people from properly criticizing Hitler; only a self-destructive neo-Soviet man wants to whitewash Russia's faults by pointing to those of other countries. The inability to accept and respond to criticism is what brought Russia to its knees.
What's more, Mr. Averko probably doesn't know that Russia has a long history of totalitarian abuse, including a Gulag Archipelago where more Russians were killed than by Hitler. So Russia has a lot more to worry about in this regard than America does.
Here we go again, a rabid Russian nationalist responding to facts about Russia by attempting to distract attention from them!
Here is some information on the weakness of this technology from 2004:
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/669.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040211080041.htm
You're the one who is neo-Soviet with your myopic approach.
There's no legitimate comparing of the pre-Soviet Russian period with the Soviet one.
Thank G-d Rusia has liberated itself. Still plenty of work to do. That can be said of other former Communist statesd as well.
You make me appear even more right as some of what you comprehend is bogus.
You make me appear even more right as some of what you comprehend is bogus.
A gliche of some type.
Yes, being pro-Russian in your terminology is being "wacko."
And my name is Mike or Michael.