Dear Editor,
I am gratified to learn of the introduction of lie detectors as a means of weeding out undesirables from important public service departments. But isn’t it discriminatory as well as a double standard to hold the lower echelons in government departments to a higher standard of ethical behaviour than their civilian minders? Wouldn’t it be a demonstration of exemplary leadership qualities if those, whose handlings of the affairs of state are virtually inscrutable, were to strap themselves unto that machine and answer the same kind of questions that will be put to their uniformed subordinates?
