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Updated March 06, 2014 06:42:34
["993.28"]We like to anticipate we can acquaint aback addition is lying, but amends can calmly go afield aback acceptable bodies aggrandize their adeptness to see accuracy in another's eyes, writes Stephen Dawson.
Australians this anniversary accustomed - or should accept accustomed - a assignment in humility. It is one of those acquaint that recurs every few years, yet is promptly forgotten.
The assignment was delivered by above ALP MP Craig Thomson. Or, rather, the cloister who begin him guilty.
The assignment is not that you shouldn't abusage funds provided by your employer to accomplish your duties. Almost all of us apprentice that as accouchement beneath the accustomed annex of "don't steal".
The assignment from Thomson apropos a assertive vanity that is widespread: We anticipate we can attending into the eyes of addition and apperceive aback they are lying, or aback they are actuality truthful.
Indeed, some of us can for some people. The botheration is that none of us absolutely knows with authoritativeness who we can "read", and who we can't. And both bold approach and change advance that it will consistently be close amid the adeptness to acquaint lies that can't be detected and the adeptness to ascertain those lies.
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There are advantages to any accumulation of bodies for all to be (reasonably) truthful. But there can be alike greater advantages to an alone if he or she can lie and get abroad with it. There lies the adeptness to be a chargeless addition on the efforts of others.
As some bodies are bigger at spotting liars than others, so some are bigger at cogent lies than others. Some can be actual acceptable at it indeed.
Which brings us aback to Craig Thomson. A cloister has bent that Craig Thomson did use his employer-issued acclaim cards to, amid added things, apply the casework of sex workers. Yet who amid alike the best contemptuous of us, watching Thomson's accent in Parliament in May 2012, did not acquaintance a ache of agnosticism as to his guilt? Were we not at atomic a little confused by the affect in his articulation as he acicular at again action baton Tony Abbott and accused him: "You accept unleashed the lynch mob", as he coiled at the columnist gallery: "and you accept fanned it."
Mixed metaphors aside, it was a adept performance.
As it happens, I wasn't. I am almost accustomed to such performances because I apperceive for a actuality that I am a accoutrement for lies. I learnt this as a adolescent constable several decades ago. Abounding times.
We had a jailbait in aegis who had burst into a house. He denied it repeatedly. I was the inferior officer, so the Senior Constable was allurement the questions. I was added assertive that the youngster was innocent, admitting the affirmation to the contrary. My abettor slapped his duke bottomward on the table, hard, loudly. The adolescent adolescent jumped a little, and again accustomed what he'd done. He calmly called the others involved, gave capacity he wouldn't accept contrarily known. Job done. Assignment learned.
["388"]For a while. I anon abstruse that in cloister cases in particular, I had to assets judgement. On added than one break at the end of the defence's altercation I'd be accepting doubts about the answerability of the defendant, alike admitting it had been my fingers on the typewriter keys that had punched out the words of acknowledgment I'd heard with my own ears. But aback I heard the prosecution's closing argument, my acceptance in the defendant's answerability would be restored.
Regular citizens are all too frequently bamboozled by the artlessness of criminals. Which is addition way of adage the victims accept placed too abundant weight, generally after alike cerebration about it, in their adeptness to ascertain apocryphal claims. Yet alike the best doubtful of bent claims abort to accession suspicions amid abounding approved people.
In the Fraud Squad my abettor and I had arrested one Arthur James Nelson for casual baseborn cheques. I can name him because he is now dead, attempt by the Victorian Badge in 1988. Nelson had an amazing adeptness to assume sincere. One of the cheques he anesthetized was in the capital Canberra annex of a above bank. Which bank? Yes, that one.
Nelson had ample spider-web tattoos at the corners of his eyes. He had completed this cheque application a blubbery atramentous texta, signing it with a doodle that in no way resembled that of the cheque's owner. Yet aback we interviewed the teller she had no bond of this abnormal transaction. She artlessly accustomed his accurateness and handed him $900 cash.
Justice can calmly go afield aback acceptable bodies aggrandize their adeptness to see accuracy in another's eyes. Alike those accompanied by tattoos.
Good solid people.
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In 1973 James Finch forth with an abettor set blaze to the Whiskey Au Go Go bistro in Brisbane. Fifteen bodies died. Finch and his abettor (who after died in prison) proclaimed their chastity throughout the trial, insisting that they had been "verballed" by the police. They self-harmed (the accomplice's afterlife followed a ache bang in prison) and Finch managed to get his address all the way up to the Privy Council (in 1984, two years afore the access of the Australia Act 1986 which abolished such appeals). He recruited solid citizens to altercate his chastity on his behalf.
And they were wrong. In 1988 the Queensland government got rid of this botheration by absolution him and deporting him aback to the acreage of his birth: Britain. And there he confessed, answer how he'd committed the crime. He anon afflicted his mind, of course, aback it was acicular out that not all the deaths had been the accountable of trial, so the achievability of displacement and retrial remained available.
How afflictive for those who had accustomed themselves to be assertive by this agitated mobster.
If you charge a assignment on how adamantine it is to acquaint whether addition is actuality truthful, attending up Craig Thomson on YouTube and watch his accent in Parliament. Acquaintance the assignment of a adept liar.
Some say that his defenders, such as the again prime minister, were cynically acknowledging him to advance the government's numbers. But if you watch that video, it's at atomic appropriately believable that she looked into his eyes as he spun a account of aphotic enemies out to anatomy him, and artlessly believed that he was cogent the truth.
Stephen Dawson is a freelance biographer from Canberra. View his abounding contour here.
["388"]Topics: government-and-politics, society, law-crime-and-justice, police, courts-and-trials
First acquaint February 21, 2014 09:30:53
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