Eye of the ChinookIn 1978 and 1979, Alaskan patriots, angered at the Federal government's arrogant use of the Antiquities Act, engaged in a series of events that had the potential to change world affairs. President Reagan's election and appointment of James Watt as Interior Secretary eventually defused the situation and the Alaskan Patriot movement, but not before the following story occurred. Names have been changed to protect still-living Patriots-and forthcoming Homeland Security legislation will likely...Chinook Chapter Twenty-seven- (Found July 5, 2008 ) As if frozen, he stands among mixed spruce and birch saplings on the ridge as the helicopter circles low over the still-smoldering embers of the cabin, its propwash swirling snow and ashes, raising a cloud of whiteness that hides all but the shadow of the machine. He wants to wave, but his arms won't move. He wants to run down into the open, but his legs seem not to belong to him. So he stands watching as the helicopter circles twice, swings out over the lake, then returns for one more loop...http://homerkizer.org/chinook27.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-eight- (Found July 5, 2008 ) There remains his problem: tyranny aside, does he have the right to determine good and evil Has that prerogative been given to him, or given to Lars If he can answer yes-and he so wants to answer yes-then whatever must be done is justified.http://homerkizer.org/chinook28.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-nine - The Storm- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Feeling like he's flying, knowing that he's rapidly covering distance, knowing that he's traveling in a straight line, not knowing anything else except the severity of the pain, he hurries on as legs tire, cramp. A dark character in white space, driven by pain and revenge and the storm itself, he realizes that he hasn't felt her behind him for quite a while. Despite a desire to look, he doesn't turn his head. He hasn't the strength to go back for her if she isn't there, and he hasn't the heart..http://homerkizer.org/chinook29.pdf Chinook Chapter Thirty - Remembrance- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The American founders wrestled with the question of whether it was morally right to rebel against the king. Were they not doing what Lucifer had done, determining for themselves right and wrong; were they not judging the king And they answered their fears from the Apostle Paul: rulers appointed by God are not a terror to good conduct but to bad. When rulers become a terror to good conduct, they have usurped the authority of another. They need to be removed. So the judging isn't of the law or of.http://homerkizer.org/chinook30.pdf Chinook Chapter Thirty-one- (Found July 5, 2008 ) He doesn't how to answer her or even if he should so he lies there, unable to see anything, hidden as it were in a womb, fraternal twins who will, after passage through a watery canal, eventually emerge into a new white world. They will be born not from above but from rebellion and anger, each a new creation of that great land where nature has always been the determining base for a mortal superstructure. Each began as a separate egg impregnated by frozen sperm stored since Seward agreed that...http://homerkizer.org/chinook31.pdf Chinook Chapter Seventeen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Daylight sneaks in behind him, sits of the log beside him, and warms his back as he slumps drowsily. He hugs his .22. Finally, as if its fingers had grabbed his shoulder, daylight shakes him awake. Eddie bolts up straight, his ears alert. Not turning his head, he sits like his dad does when hunting. Eyes moving. Thumb on his rifle's safety. Finger alongside its trigger. Waiting. Watching and waiting. Ready to shoot whatever it was that woke him.http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2017.pdf Chinook Chapter Sixteen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) For some reason, Les again feels compelled to say, "You don't have to have a cyclotron to separate isotopes. Let me think a second." There's something at the edge of his memory that peeks over like the eyes of a periscope. It's not something he has thought before that he can recall, but something new that feels like old knowledge, like he has always known this but never thought it before. "If, say, you created a gas-metal compound, say reacted uranium with ferric chlorate, the chlorine atoms...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2016.pdf Chinook Chapter Two- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The air feels heavy-and Itzak wonders what would it be like living at double atmospheric pressure. Breathing would be easy. Sound would carry like nothing humanity has ever experienced. Boom-boxes would be weapons of war, and one artillery round would have a shock wave--he will have to work out the calculations, but the shock wave would, itself, be lethal, meaning that sound could be used to do work.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20Two%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Three- (Found July 5, 2008 ) We, the citizens of the Commonwealth of Alaska, believing that we have a God ordained right to govern ourselves-to be a free and sovereign people-no longer recognize the judicial claims of the Government in Washington, D.C., over the Territorial Lands of Alaska. Because the Government in Washington, D.C., has historically and consistently failed to fulfill its treaty and statehood obligations to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Alaska; and because the Government in Washington, D.C., has...http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20Three%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Four- (Found July 5, 2008 ) A big man, a cautious man-perhaps, at times, too cautious-Jabe McCarver doesn't believe happenstance occurs twice. For him, the death of his brother and the sinking of the Freedom are too closely connected in time to believe either one accidental. He and the other known members of the Committee, operating on the assumption that there is a collaborator within their outer circle, have, like foxes, taken to ground, disappearing from public sight, leaving behind families and jobs, homes and most...http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20Four%20Chinook.pdf |