Are Aaron’s enhanced interrogation techniques in the Teflon room cruel or unusual? Torture?
The Constitution protects criminals from Cruel and Unusual Punishment, but the criminal, himself, determines the limits. If the punishment isn’t worse than what the criminal did to his victims, it is neither cruel nor unusual.
The corrupt justice system jumped out and bit Aaron Masters. The law failed him
so he took action. He found corruption all the way to the top. The corruption isn’t the fiction. Organized crime makes more than the top 100 U.S. corporations.
The fiction is that Aaron could do something about it. He can’t hold on any longer but he can’t let go. The stress exposes raw fears as hardened cops deal with horrific discoveries.
About the Author, Paul Lecoq
Paul Lecoq grew up in Southern California and worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He worked on several unmanned spacecraft, the Mariners, Viking and Galileo as well as many Research and Development projects.
Paul served three years active duty with the US Army, maintaining radars and computers for the NIKE Surface to Air missile systems. He joined the Guard and retired as a Lieutenant. Colonel.
He retired from Spokane Falls Community College after 26 years teaching software engineering, computing, networking, physics, and project management. Paul now teaches electrical engineering as an adjunct faculty member at Gonzaga University—Go Zags.
He is an avid reader, especially history, dabbles in politics, and has been an amateur radio operator since 1959—W7MDF.
Paul holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a year and a half of graduate work in computer science. And, led the development of one of the first digital spacecraft simulators which was used extensively on several spacecraft projects.
He was systems engineer on the first distributed microprocessor data system for spacecraft.
