The Hijacking of Alaska’s Magic Bus: Desecration of a Memorial
Description
On June 18, 2020, Alaska’s Magic Bus (Bus 142), made famous by Christopher Johnson McCandless, was hijacked by the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment of the Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) which was fully authorized by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in a blatant case of government intrusion and overreach. Shortly before 1:00 PM Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT), using a CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter, Bus 142 was seized from its nearly six-decade wilderness home on a bench above the Sushana River on the Stampede Trail in the westernmost Wolf Township in Denali Borough in interior Alaska. This eBook convincingly proves that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a very badly conflicted department, erred seriously in authorizing the hijacking of Bus 142 in three primary ways—their justification for the removal of Bus 142 was totally flawed, their decision making process grossly violated Alaskan state law, and their actions amounted to the despicable desecration of a bonafide memorial also in violation of Alaskan state law. While not quite as flagrant, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) also chose the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) as the place where Bus 142 would be restored and ultimately exhibited. Using an outlandish amount of taxpayer money the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) has embarked on a process and outcome that totally embraces the materialistic world that McCandless so loathed. Had McCandless not been cremated, he'd be spinning in his grave. This eBook also delves deeply into what made Bus 142 famous—Christopher Johnson McCandless—who lived in Bus 142 for several months in 1992 and died in it from starvation. His story has been told by a hard hitting magazine article, the best-selling book Into the Wild and by a blockbuster movie by the same name. Exhaustive research of McCandless’s life for this eBook has produced a lot of interesting new information about the saga and expands greatly on what is already known. In fact, we've dug so deep researching this eBook we think we might have hit bottom once or twice, which with the present-day Internet is a fairly difficult thing to do. One bewildering thing about McCandless is why he simply stayed at Bus 142 and didn’t try to self-exit the Alaskan wilderness and/or summons the saviors. This eBook delves deeper into that puzzling occurrence than any other source has done to date, and sheds some much needed light on the why of it. McCandless is continuously and widely berated for what he did, particularly given all that he had, but this eBook effectively lays to rest all of it with a detailed perspective that will leave readers wondering why such an explanation took decades to be offered. This eBook is an overall aggregator source for the McCandless saga, bringing together for the first time in one publication hundreds of audio and video and print and online sources including a substantial amount of quoted material all of which is accurately and fully cited in its extensive bibliography. Also included is a list of over 150 categorized and clickable links which lead to a wealth of diverse online information about all aspects of this saga. This eBook is also a treasure trove of new ideas and perspectives for student essay writers of all ages that is guaranteed to help them ace their work. In fact, parts of this eBook has been specifically researched and written for secondary and higher educational use which is why the publisher welcomes not-for-profit inquiries and proposals that facilitate student use of this eBook. Finally, while this eBook is extremely black and white factual it also has some very touching material that will leave McCandless fans yearning for more, inspire those who are on the fence about McCandless to side with him, and will likely soften, at least a tad, even the harshest critics of McCandless, of which there are many.