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Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was a man, planned long and hard for the attack on a Christian school in Nashville. On March 27, 2023, Hale gunned down nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney along with adults Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce and Mike Hill. Trans activists, local police and the FBI suppressed the release of Hale’s writings, a primary source for her motive in the murders.
Chancery court judge I’Ashea L. Myles, who boasts of a “diverse and inclusive perspective,” has now ruled that the murderer’s writings cannot be released to the public because the parents of her victims hold the copyright. That surely left copyright lawyers rather puzzled.
A written work is copyrighted from the time it is “fixed” in a tangible form, typed or written on paper, or in a computer. Audrey Hale held the copyright to her various journals and “manifesto,” but it is unclear whether she ever assigned the copyright to any other party, let alone the parents of those she murdered, before Nashville police shot her dead.
Copyright law exists to prevent parties from stealing written works and reselling them as their own. “Fair use” doctrine allows citation of a copyrighted work for criticism, news reporting, scholarship and such. Audrey Hale’s written materials are eligible for fair use but judge Myles wants to keep them secret. So the ruling continues the coverup in place from the start.
Hale’s attack took place in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” a possible indicator of motive. Victim Mike Hill was black but no word of racism on the part of Hale, and little if anything about an anti-Christian hate crime or even “gun violence.” The Biden White House declined to name the victims and portrayed the “trans community” as the party “under attack.” A murderer was transformed into a victim, but there’s more to it.
As Bruce Bawer explains, “homosexuality and transgenderism are two utterly different phenomena,” so the LGBTQ formulation is nothing but a construct. The dynamic is not gender dysphoria but “a “revolution against reality itself,” which is bound to have consequences.
Audrey Hale was a former student at the school and children were the primary targets. The few pages leaked from her written materials show a sulfuric hatred for the children. While full revelations of the materials awaits, the victims can testify through their autopsies.
Hale deployed an AR-15 style rifle, a 9mm Kel-tec SUB carbine, and a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun. She shot Halley Scruggs in the head, pelvis, abdomen, thigh and upper lateral back. Hale blasted William Kinney at close range, with bullets perforating the head, torso right arm, abdomen and back. The pathologist discovered “minor blunt force trauma of the body.”
The rounds Hale unleashed on Evelyn Dieckhaus perforating the arms, posterior torso, right hip, left leg, pelvis and heart, from which a bullet was recovered. Hale also inflicted “minor blunt force trauma” on the child’s body.
Hale shot headmaster Katherine Koonce in the head several times, with one bullet piercing the left eye and another exiting through the mandible. Koonce also took a shot in the neck and the right side of her torso, and suffered “ “traumatic loss of teeth,” the result of the “blunt force trauma,” from the shooter.
Hale shot teacher Cynthia Peak in the face, neck and chest, perforating both lungs and the aorta. Custodian Mike Hill took a bullet in the right lateral chest, causing wounds to the lungs and mainstem bronchi, thoracic spine, aorta, and left rib. All victims died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Hale’s diaries and notebooks would doubtless reveal more about the targeting of these innocent victims, but judge I’Ashea Myles says the material can’t be released on copyright grounds. Media outlets following the case need to appeal this bogus ruling. All citizens and their representatives should turn attention to the FBI, which supports the suppression of Hale’s manifesto. This covers up the reality that the bureau failed to prevent the mass murder and played no role in the takedown of Audrey Hale.
In similar style, the FBI failed to prevent terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009, 14 dead), the Boston Marathon (2013, three dead) San Bernardino (2015, 14 dead) and Orlando in 2016, with 49 dead. In all cases, many others were wounded and the FBI played no role in the takedown of the shooters and bombers.
The FBI is also suppressing evidence in the murders of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney and DNC official Seth Rich. In both cases, the FBI mounted no serious search for suspects, and Haney’s autopsy was changed from homicide to suicide. The people have a right to wonder
what the bureau knew and when they knew it.
Congress should demand a release of Rich’s computer and all materials seized from Philip Haney, including his laptop, thumb drives and materials for a new book to follow the 2016 See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad. In 2024 moving forward, Islamic terrorism and trans violence are all about memory against forgetting.