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 Five- (Found July 5, 2008 ) His flight from Jerusalem seemed endless, like that Aeroflot flight from Cairo to Moscow-the bitterness he once felt is gone. He feels as if he has no life within him, and he wonders if the emptiness he feels is caused by the lies he tells, or the lies he lives, or whether by the specks of plutonium deep inside his lungs. Pu239. He knows the designation of his death, that of the isotope residing within him, one speck of which will kill the whole body.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20five%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Six- (Found July 5, 2008 ) He must have dozed off. When he opens his eyes, nurses serve breakfast. The one who brings his tray is cheery, excessively so considering that he doesn't feel like eating or doing anything else. He waves the tray away without looking to see what it holds, but his hand seems too heavy for him to lift so the motion he makes is more a feeble attempt to throw his bed sheet off than a rejection of the tray. His hands are bandaged. An IV is attached to the inside of his left forearm. Probes are taped.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20six%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Seven- (Found July 5, 2008 ) When Caroline, accompanied by Dr. Grewe, walked into her pretend father's third floor room and found it empty and his dinner scattered across his bed, her first impulse was to flee straight to the airport and escape this land of frost where even the sun is reluctant to shine. Her second urge was to cry for she wanted this, her first field assignment, to be successful. Her appearance got her this assignment, but her looks haven't been enough to assure her success.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20seven%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Eight- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Visiting Earthquake Park just to be doing something, Dr. Hans Grewe stands on the fault line at the base of the sheer where, since the quake on Good Friday 1964, the clay of the Inlet has already formed round pebbles. As an educated man, he seeks understanding. Of nature. The human mind. Individual men. There is much he doesn't know about the mind and about humanity, and he feels certain Jones will help him understand how the mind communicates with itself. He knows the root languages from which.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20eight%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Nine- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Hastily gathered around the all-seeing walnut table that spends its days staring blindly about the windowless room, the thirteen members of the Taskforce on Alaskan Pipeline Terrorism (TAPT as it's come to be known since yesterday's meeting) stare blankly at each other. The table, itself, was also disfellowshipped from the Body of Christ by the good Master Edward Taylor. It eyes saw both good and evil in the affairs of men, but it only caused the consciences to good men to squirm when their...http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20nine%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Ten- (Found July 5, 2008 ) He sees three leatherbound photo albums, and the two half-inch high folders holding what he has written about whatever. His thoughts. Maybe that's where they are, surgically removed from his head and left to dry out on paper as a restorer might dry the leaves of a flood-damaged book. In those folders are how he expressed himself before his memories were washed away. And as he sits on the edge of the cot, despite his overwhelming urge to sleep, he pulls one of the albums towards him.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20ten%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Eleven- (Found July 5, 2008 ) "I couldn't get the tape out, but I listened to it." Peggy looks across the parking lot. Ben has waited in the car for her to return from the TAPT's meeting inside the gray fortress, with its crown of thorns. "Will you promise me no killing" She waits for him to answer, and when he doesn't she says, "No, you can't do that, can you"http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%2011%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Twelve- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The god of the world into which she was born places women below men, then uses women to transform men into swine: she is a realist, living in a world run by men who can be seduced. It isn't a perfect world, nor is it getting any better, but it is the only one she lives in. So she gave up praying when her first marriage failed, when there wasn't enough money to even buy scratchy, grocery store pantyhose. She knows the god of this world for what he is, greedy.http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2012.pdf Chinook Chapter Thirteen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) He knows why he is here. Washington D.C. has violated its governing compact with the people of Alaska. Its administration of land policies has become oppressive. A miner cannot legally dip a bucket of water from a stream, then throw that water back into the stream. That act of throwing the water in has been ruled, by Federal administrators, pollution. The miner has to first remove all particulates before the water can be returned; the miner has to remove the glacial silt. So yes, his memory...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2013.pdf Chinook Chapter Fourteen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The trapper escaped the Park Service's attention when the official list of in-holders was compiled for the newly created Becharof National Park. He wouldn't have come to statewide attention if Les Jones would have been considerate enough to have died at sea, or in the mountains. Struggling over one last ridge, the helicopter tips forward and descends through a serpentine pass between peaks. In a few more minutes, they are speeding over rolling hills, mostly snow covered. They pass over willows..http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2014.pdf |