THE NASHVILLE ASSASSIN AND HER LITTLE BLACK BOOKS

 

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU

                             The big controversy in and around Nashville, Tenn., is the guarded "manifesto" of the transitioning Audrey Hale, who gunned down three small children and three adults in an explosion of hate for young Christian "crackers."

                            Last March, the 28-year-old Hale who was in a mid-gender change from female to male, blasted her way through a glass door of the Christian Covenant Elementary school.  Using a rifle and two handguns and firing off some 126 bullets, Hale shot and killed three nine-year-old children, a boy and two girls, and three adult supervisors, including the head teacher, a substitute teacher, and the school custodian.  Responding Nashville police officers shot and killed Hale as she held to her guns. 

                           Reportedly, Hale, who at one time was a pupil in the Christian school, had put together extensive plans for how she would take down occupants. Her journals, diaries and plans have all been confiscated from her home and from inside her automobile.  All of her papers are in the hands of police authorities in Nashville, who are declining to make them public, in deference to woke and progressive requests. 

                             The Covenant campus, founded in 2001, is in an affluent part of Nashville known as Green Hills and is the educational home to some 200 pupils in preschool to sixth grade. Students have bible classes and attend chapel services daily. 

                            The LGBTQ organizations have raised their voices with objections to the release of Hale's writings, noting that life for a transgender person is very difficult and has been made even tougher because of the "virtual avalanche"  of anti-trans legislation.  Certainly, said the Trans Resistance Network (TRN) in a statement, Hale's confrontation of the anti-trans sentiment must be factored into the fatal shootings at the Christian school.  

                         The families of  murdered victims are siding with  holding back the manifesto from public scrutiny. Their belief, it is reported, is that release to the public would could cause more traumatic problems and perhaps encourage action by "copy cats." 

                          Steven Crowder, a conservative talk show host, revealed on-line photo films of the documents in question, and supplied comments contained therein of Hale's personal observations and opinions. His disclosures are being termed an unauthorized "leak" and efforts are underway to find out how the  conservative Crowder obtained the hands-off materials.  

                           The "leak" to Crowder has increased the commotion and controversy in and around Nashville.  Although Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee favors release of the manifesto in accord with the people's right to know, Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell opposes it, and has ordered an investigation in an all-out effort to find and apparently punish the "leaker." Nashville newsman Brent Leatherwood described the leaker as a "viper." 

                           In the Crowder on-line revelations, he showed films of a pile of Hale's journals, books and miscellaneous papers he had been made privy to, and revealed some words and written plans of Hale's to kill children.  Crowder, who promotes his conservative show as "Louder with Crowder," stands by his reporting noting that citizens have an absolute  right to know about the thinking of a transitioning woman who wants to be a man, and is filled with hate for Christians and for the elementary school where she attended the 3d and 4th grades.  

                            The leaked information to Crowder also told of Hale's desire to "kill all you little f.....rs and crackers with white privilege," and to have "a high death count." She wrote that she was a  transgendered man, and her name was now "Aiden." 

                                      Another page pointed to by Crowder included an hour-by-hour calendar referred to by Hale as "Death Day." That disclosure  included  comments like "get dressed" and "eat breakfast;" and "prepare for attack" and "time 2 die."  Hale added that "I'm a little nervous, but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks,.....Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm ready... I hope my victims aren't."

                        Last November  seven Nashville policemen were placed on the administrative duty roster and the transfer gave the impression that one or more of the officers may have had their fingers in providing the sensitive information to Crowder.  A few weeks later, however, four of the seven were recalled to regular duty, but the other three are remaining on desk duty as the investigation ordered by Mayor O'Connell continues. None of the officers have been identified.  

                        Conservative TV anchors and Republican politicians are continuing to request that the full story of Hale's assault and murder of six persons be revealed in its entirety.  Transparency in government demands that the "manifesto" be made public. If the process of transitioning filled Audrey Hale with hate and inspired (her or him) to shoot up a school, the public and "trans" aspirants should be so informed, said Laura Ingraham who anchors the Fox News show, "the Ingraham Angle."                        .

                       Vivek Ramaswamy, a GOP candidate for U.S. President,  has called for the release of the guarded manifesto.  It will, said Ramaswamy, "expose Hale's evil ideology and her radical agenda."  Ingraham said that Ramaswamy is among the few who dare to stand up to the "woke mob" and that qualifies him as a genuine Nashville hero. 

                       Hale's parents have told newsmen that their daughter suffered from an "emotional disorder" and was being counseled by a doctor.   Some believe that she may have become stressed over contemplated "bottom surgery."

                       Hale, unbeknownst to her parents, owned seven various type guns, all of which she purchased legally.  He father said that it was their belief that Audrey had owned one gun some time ago, but had sold it. All of Hale's weapons have been seized by police and are  being examined by ballistic experts.  

                        In the minutes before Hale entered the school and began firing, she had sent an Instagram to an old friend, Paige Patton, a Nashville radio host who uses the name "Averianna." 

                        Said Hale:  "I'm planning to die today. This is not a joke. You will probably hear about me on the news after I die.... This is my last goodbye--love you--see you again in another life." 

                       The shooting began 13 minutes later.   

 

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SUPREME COURT TELLS CHAUVIN--NO APPEAL FOR YOU

 

                           BY BILL JUNEAU

                       Though buried in news reports and difficult to find, we nevertheless have learned that the United States Supreme Court has refused to consider the appeal from former Policeman Derek Chauvin, who argues that he did not kill or commit manslaughter on George Floyd. 

                               Chauvin's attorneys and assorted legal scholars, and millions of fair minded Americans share the belief  that Chauvin did not receive a fair trial and that the evidence and "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of his guilt for murder and manslaughter is sorely lacking;  and that it was more the product of far-left  racial and political unrest.  The jury decision of guilty on all counts was not a reasonable conclusion based on facts and testimony under oath during the officer's trial in April of 2021. 

                       With his attorneys who prepared a lengthy written brief,  Chauvin had importuned the nine justices of the nation's highest court and the final arbiter of disputes, to examine his appeal with clean glasses, outside the noise of a twisted world calling him a cruel "racist" cop, and to reverse the jury findings and order up a new trial which would be administered fairly.  As is often said by lawyers, and constitutional experts, a new trial would be the "right thing to do."                             

                                Lasting five weeks in the spring of 2021, in the prominent Twin City of Minneapolis, Minnesota,  the trial was held in a courthouse converted into a war-like fortress rimmed with coiled wire. The 12-person jury was tainted and infected by one member who lied and concealed his anti-police sentiment during voir dire questioning by the judge and attorneys.  Also,  there was significant evidence that the jurors feared for their safety unless the defendant cop was convicted.  Judicial errors were countless. Jurors were unsequestered and requests for a mistrial and  change of venue were repeatedly denied by Trial Judge Peter Cahill. 

                                The high court has declined a review of the Chauvin conviction and of the "enhanced" sentence handed him by Judge Cahill, thereby allowing the decision of the jury and the lower level Minnesota Court of Appeals to stand. Was the U.S. Supreme Court too concerned that changing the Floyd decision or ordering a new trial for the police officer would ignite a bitter, new explosion of racial violence in Minneapolis and other major cities?  Was it the smarter path by the erudite justices to just not get involved?

                                Several months ago, SCOTUS  reversed the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, ruling that abortion was not a constitutional question and that abortion availability, therefore, was to be decided by individual states. The court showed independence, moral courage and respect for the rule of law in dealing with this emotional issue.  Was the high court's extraordinary bravery in reversing the Roe decision only justice for the moment? 

                               Officer Chauvin, an 18-year veteran policeman, was found guilty of second degree unintended murder and manslaughter by the tainted jury which deliberated for 10 hours. The recommended sentencing guidelines in Minnesota for the named   offenses is 12.5 years in jail.  Judge Cahill sentenced the defendant to 22.5 years in a penitentiary explaining that he was "enhancing" the punishment by tacking on another decade of prison time because the defendant police officer  had been  unnecessarily "cruel," and that his conduct had been witnessed by young and impressionable children. 

                                George Floyd, 46, an African American with a long rap sheet, died May 25, 2020 after Minneapolis Officer Chauvin arrested him, and was detaining him while awaiting a police transport vehicle. Police involvement came after a local merchant in Minneapolis telephoned police for help, accusing Floyd, of passing a counterfeit $20 bill as payment for cigarettes. 

                                Tragically and unpredictably, the muscular, six-foot, six-inch Floyd succumbed as Chauvin held him to the ground with a knee on his neck, a common police procedure used by officers in controlling uncooperative suspects.  The technique is taught officers in the Minneapolis police academy; and Officer Chauvin used the technique as he had been instructed to do.    

                             

                                 At the trial, physicians argued as to the cause of death.  Factually and without dispute, pathologists testified that Floyd's body was loaded with fentanyl and other drugs; and he was actually gulping pills and complaining that he was having trouble breathing when first seen by policemen. Also, there was testimony from doctors that his main arteries were almost completely blocked so that he was in effect a "dead man walking."  One physician testified that Floyd had so much fentanyl in his system that his death would qualify as a drug overdose.  Fentanyl drug deaths claim thousands of lives in America each year. 

  

                                 Chauvin's lawyers were also petitioning the high court to consider in its final appeal a determination from  respected pathologist William Schaetzel of Topeka, Kan., that Floyd died of a rare tumor in his body, a "paraganglioma."  Dr. Schaetzel s recent investigation into the cause of Floyd's death  directly challenges the conclusion that  Floyd's  demise was from asphyxia caused by the police officer's use of a "knee to his neck."                    

                                Derek Chauvin, 47, had been a uniformed policeman in Minneapolis for nearly two decades.  He was the recipient of four medals and commendations for valor and bravery. He had never been disciplined for using excessive force in making an arrest.              

                                The Chauvin trial began in an atmosphere of headlines, and riots and protest demonstrations on allegations that Chauvin was a racist cop, who typified policemen throughout the country.  Despite the near anarchy in some locations, Judge Cahill  declined to sequester jurors despite repeated motions that he do so.    

                                The dishonest juror selected was an African American  high school coach.  He was approved after informing the court that he had no preconceived notions of the policeman's guilt; and that he would act solely on the basis of the evidence presented.  Concealed was the fact that he had attended a rally in which he wore a hat saluting the BLM organization, and a Tee-shirt with the inscription , "Get your knee off of my neck."  At the close of the trial, Judge Cahill declined to grant a mistrial on the basis of the juror's prevarication and his obvious pro Floyd bias. 

 

                              As the five week trial was moving forward, the city of Minneapolis announced that it was awarding $27 million to the family of George Floyd as settlement of a suit alleging police brutality.  It appears likely, Chauvin lawyers argue, that the unsequestered jurors became informed of the award, and that it had an effect on them.  

                              Maxine Waters of California, an African American Congresswoman, told a protest rally that if the policeman is not convicted, there will be retaliation and  "we will get confrontational."  Chauvin contended in his arguments that it was likely that the  unsequestered jurors learned of her threats and were fearful for their personal safety.  Waters' publicized threat prompted Trial Judge Cahill to predict that her comments might well be grounds for a mistrial in an appeal, though he himself declined to order a mistrial when asked to do so.  

 

                               With the trial underway, President Biden weighed in and asserted that evidence in the case was "overwhelming," and he "was praying that the jurors would reach the right decision."     His message to jurors was clear, and after the guilty finding was returned, the President  commented that its decision was a "step forward  in the fight against systemic police racism."

                       Around the Thanksgiving holiday, Chauvin was attacked and stabbed 22 times in his  neck and back by an African American inmate bent on avenging the death of George Floyd. The attack occurred in a federal prison in Tucson,  Ariz where Chauvin is serving his time. Chauvin was seriously wounded from the knifing, but according to reports, will  recover, and jail authorities are promising that they will increase security on behalf of the former policeman. 

                         The decision by SCOTUS to trash the Chauvin appeal and look the other way, without comment,  has all the appearances of being a political decision rather than a legal one. The court should reconsider and examine the appeal in the interest of justice and in accord with the high court's stated and trusted mission to provide equal justice for every American. 

                        

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