Act of Treason Blog (chapters 24-29)

This weeks post starts with Rapp in a crappy apartment just crashing because he was basically born to do this job and he doesn't want credit so he's laying low for now. Then Brooks goes to a meeting where she is introduced to a new person named Juarez. Then it flips to Stu Garrett, a man we have not seen in the book for a while, at his work place. Then someone by the name of Speyer calls and tells him to meet up with him because they have a major problem. The problem was that Gazich had been caught and the CIA might be able to track him down to Garrett. At this point in the book, we may conclude that Garrett had hired Gazich to kill the president-elect, but blew up the wrong car, because Garrett was the campaign head for the opposing side. Then back to Kennedy, Juarez, McMahon and Brooks. Now they are in a huge arguement about what to do with Gazich because they have no real evidence that Gazich did anything except a confession that was tortured out of him. Rapp then visits Gazich's bank where he talks to the teller and reveals that Gazich had not been fully paid because he did not actually kill Alexander and Rapp tries to take the money givin to Gazich by the employers but instead leaves it. Then it goes back to the Kennedy-Juarez-McMahon-Brooks situation, just dealing with the media. This book is by far one of the better books I've read in my lifetime. So many twists and turns and action. It blows my mind. Amazing. I think when all of this wraps up, Garrett will get owned by Rapp somehow.

Act of Treason Blog (chapters 19-23)

This week's blog is chapters 19-23. The beginning. Alexander(president elect) reignites his hatred towards the terrorist that killed his wife after hearing the news that he had been captured and in captivity. Alexander then asks for the person who will be credited and wants to meet Mitch Rapp. But Rapp hates the limelight and wouldn't appreciate it if the president elect congratulated him. Then Kennedy meets up with Rapp and they talk but when Rapp confesses that he had tortured Gazich into confessing, Kennedy becomes infuriated. Later Rapp finds out that the media had caught on to this and Alexander announced he would have Gazich in court. But then they realize that they have no evidence except a confession that was brought out by torture tactics. Brooks, Rapp's partner, starts to panic about the press. Then it shifts to a scene where Gazich is being formally interrogated by Rapp, Rapp learns a bunch of stuff and then Rapp gets off and runs away from the press. This span of chapters was quite interesting because the stories of Gazich are starting to tie together and it's fun. But most of this was random oring talk so that wasn't fun, otherwise this book is getting really interesting. I think that Gazich will be interrogated many more times and I think he will keep his cool even though he has like a billion people who want him to die and rot in jail or something. I think Rapp will try to avoid the media but he will eventually have to come out and tell everybody. This concludes the Act of Treason Blog (chapters 19-23).

Ethics Question Blog

Research Question:
Should prisoners be locked away from other prisoners, or should they all be able to have contact with each other?

Johnson, Kevin. "From Extreme Isolation, Waves of Felons Are Freed." USA Today Dec 2002: 1A+. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 5 Dec 2008 http://www.sirs.com.

Kevin Johnson is a writer whose article showed up in USA Today. He talks about the sole confinement of prisoners and their separation from other prisoners. A term more likely known as solitary confinement. Johnson speaks of how confinement does not help the behavior of prisoners but instead it enrages them and makes them as humanly violent as possible. He also argues that the 95% of people who will come out of jail sometime should not be confined by them self, because since that is creating what could be a psychotic killer, once they come out of prison they may be an even greater threat to society then what they should have been or were. Johnson also states that along with the separation, we also deny the prisoners the chance of education for rehabilitation. He disagrees with solitary confinement solely on the belief that this will create a more violent person.

Tyre, Peg. "Trend toward solitary confinement worries experts." CNN Interactive. 5 Dec 2008. http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/09/solitary.confinement/.

Peg Tyre a writer for CNN writes an article on the rising issue of the effects of solitary confinement on the prisoners. She argues that solitary confinement causes death more by psychological problems then physical. She also argues that the people in solitary confinement will develop many mental issues and if they are to get out of prison one day, then they will leave in a worse condition then they entered. The isolation from other people will slowly drive the prisoners crazy and they will eventually become severely depressed and it may even cause suicide. This will create a being that is more likely to hurt another she says. Her stance on solitary confinement is clearly against it. Her arguments of how people's minds will slowly deteriorate clearly shows

Act of Treason Blog (chapters 13-18)

This chapters picks up right as Mitch Rapp busts into a building and captures some random old guy. He interrogates the old man finding out that behind a door, Gazich was interrogating a Russian. Rapp slowly prepares for a 4 shot disarm, 1 to each arm and leg. Rapp busts the door open and perfectly executes the 4 shot disarm on Gazich. Next to Gazich was a Russian guy tied up pleading for Rapp's help but Rapp told him to shut up. As the Russian blabbered on, trying to persuade Rapp into letting him go with riches, Rapp called back up. Rapp finally got tired and shot the chair the Russian was sitting in, a mere 2 inches from his groin. Then the Russian says he is on the USA's side. Gazich, bloody on the floor, starts to argue saying the Russian is part of a Russian Mob. Rapp calls Kennedy and asks for assistance on the scene, and a plane out of the country ASAP. Rapp turns around and asks Gazich who hired him. Later Rapp is about to leave for the US but has to deal with a dead Russian, a tied up Russian and a bloody, crippled terrorist. Then it turns to a scene where Kennedy is basically informing the president about what had gone on in Cyprus(Rapp's situation). On the plane, Brooks(Rapp's partner) and Rapp decide to talk about their problems and how their parents died etc. Then Rapp leaves the room and interrogates Gazich and basically torturing him saying that if he answered all of Rapp's questions he would get a shot of morphine. It's so common to find the main character of a book to be lonely, sarcastic and extremely good at something and that makes a book kind of boring sometimes but this book has not gotten worse, in fact it has gotten really good and I don't want to stop reading it but I have more important things to do. I really like the way that Vince Flynn writes, his style never makes you bored, it is either nonstop action or puzzling together stuff which is really fun to read. That concludes chapters 13-18, Act of Treason Blog.