Lie
Detection
If
you live in a country where everybody lies, it is very easy to get
sucked up by the smaller lies.
Our
media and daily papers are very good at it.
They
call it editing.
The
editors of our local papers lie for their investors and for political
convenience.
They
best way to avoid lies is not to listen to daily media news or daily
news papers.
I
have been doing that for few years to gather my childhood sanity back
into my life and home.
The
first day of my working life was a big lie.
It
was a police officer who lied to me.
His
consorts were public health inspector, the village headman, school
teacher, coroner and few others.
All
of them were involved in the killing of the local thug except perhaps
the coroner.
I
later added few magistrates, too into this list.
It
was my postmortem labourer who guided me.
He
said all of them are liars and not to trust them.
From
that say I coined a phrase, “that everything in my working life is
a lie until proven otherwise”.
One
has to be paranoid about it.
Our
lawyers are trained to lie from birth.
That
is why they take up that profession.
I
will finish with a true story.
To
keep you excited, I will not tell you why this guy lied.
I
had a brief practice in Kandy.
One
day guy came from my current resident locality.
I
was new to this locality then and I did not know anybody except the
pharmacists.
I
visited few pharmacies and tendered my signature and telephone number
for verification (standard practice abroad).
This
guy wanted whole body X-rays.
I
declined and ordered only a chest X-ray and asked him to come back
with films.
He
did the next day and it was OK and I told him if you need more X-rays
for the money I could orders an I.V.P and that will clear any kidney
problems.
Idea
was to put him off with needles and because of his insistence ordered
an abdominal X-rays and a nasty purgative to go with it.
From
the first day, I had figured out this guy was an impostor of some
sort.
Few
days later he came back with the abdominal X-rays but it was of very
poor quality with lot of gases and he had not taken the purgative as
suggested.
It
confirmed my suspicion.
Then
he laid out the biggest lie of his time to me stating they went to
Ratnapura and the vehicle crashed. between Kegalle and Ruwanwella.
I
asked him the exact location of the crash and put him under duress and he
could not.
I
had worked in Ratnapura and Kegalle and I knew every possible
accident prone location but his location was not verifiable.
I
declined telling him a liar but asked my wife about the family and
she told me not to trust them.
His
father was a bogus M.E.P. candidate in my current locality.
I
refused anymore full body X-rays and a week later, I got a call from
Australia purported to be his relative and an engineer.
I
point blank told him that he was a liar and cannot be an engineer in
Australia.
Australians,
particularly engineers, except perhaps (recent) cricketers are not liars, I
told him.
Later,
I figured out their plan was to get Visa under political
victimization (they did not want to use JVP label but MEP was an easy
victim).
That
brings me to politics and our politicians are the best liars in the
world.
Wait
till the next Presidential election more lies will be laid down (RIP)
and the biggest liar will win.
