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Nashville Official Says School Shooter’s Manifesto Is ‘Astronomically Dangerous’
Epoch Times ^ | April 21, 2023 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 04/23/2023 5:17:28 PM PDT by george76

Federal officials are delaying the release of a manifesto written by Audrey Hale, who killed six people in a Nashville Christian school, according to local officials, with one calling it “astronomically dangerous.”

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told the New York Post this week that the FBI is currently behind the delay. He said that the documents should be made public for grieving family members and for members of Congress.

Hale, who was born female, used “he/him” pronouns, and police officials previously told a news conference she identified as transgender. Later, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale suffered from mental health issues and was under the care of a doctor, while her parents did not know she had procured several firearms.

The shooter’s notes “could maybe tell us a little bit about what’s going on inside of her head,” Burchett told the newspaper. “I think that would answer a lot of questions.”

About 20 journals, five laptops, a suicide note, and other materials written by Hale were taken from the house where she lived with her parents, according to a search warrant in the case.

“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston told the NY Post, without elaborating. “That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.

Johnson claimed that the “the vast, overwhelming majority of it” would be too dangerous for the public to see. “I personally don’t want to know the depths to which her psychosis reached … When I’m told by an MNPD high-ranking official that it keeps him up at night, I’m going to defer to that person in that agency that I don’t need to read that,” she added.

The official did not elaborate on why the documents would be a danger to the public. Based on the interview, it’s not clear if Johnson was worried about detailed plans to attack other sites or was worried about Hale’s mental health issues.

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Hale, 28, was a former student at The Covenant School when she shot and killed three children and three adults at a private school last month. The victims who were murdered include Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Hallie Scruggs, 9, William Kinney, 9, Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.

Since the shooting, a range of conservative commentators have publicly called for Hale’s manifesto to be made public, saying that the FBI’s delay is part of a cover-up to keep the public from knowing about the dangers of transgenderism. About a week after the Nashville mass shooting, a 19-year-old male who reportedly identified as female was arrested in Colorado with detailed plans for several school shootings.

Rep. Walter Hudson (R-Minn.) told the NY Post this week that the documents should be released and said that by doing so, the FBI and other agencies could gain more Americans’ trust. He cited conversations with his constituents who have exhibited an “increasing distrust with the FBI and with government agencies generally.”

“One of the greatest threats to democracy or, as I would say, threats to the Constitutional Republic, is the erosion of trust in institutions. The FBI is one of those institutions,” he told NY Post. “If you’re going to wield power in a free country, then you have a responsibility to maintain the public’s trust in that power—and the FBI needs to figure out how to do that,” the lawmaker said.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) told the paper that if the documents are not ultimately released, “then we need to investigate why.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: audrey; audreyhale; banglist; christian; christianschool; corruption; covenantschool; fbi; hale; manifesto; nashville; nashvilleshooting; school; transpsycho
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1 posted on 04/23/2023 5:17:28 PM PDT by george76
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Politics and politicians never allow the People to judge …..


2 posted on 04/23/2023 5:19:31 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: george76

The longer the FBI has it, the longer it will be doctored up.


3 posted on 04/23/2023 5:20:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: george76

I would be fine reading the entire thing. Sterner stuff than this person.


4 posted on 04/23/2023 5:21:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: no-to-illegals

MOST kids play video games that are astronomically dangerous. People get killed. Kids in bedrooms watch all sorts of horror, mysteries, police action...bomb barded with violent content. But the FBI says we can’t see this because it is VIOLENT?


5 posted on 04/23/2023 5:21:42 PM PDT by rovenstinez ( )
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To: george76

What does that even mean? That formulation doesn’t make sense and they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. If the manifesto gives some indication as to how a certain facility is susceptible to attack, redact that. Beyond that, some of us are big boys and girls and can take the truth


6 posted on 04/23/2023 5:23:07 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Too bad.

Release it.


7 posted on 04/23/2023 5:23:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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The most obvious reason to not release the manifesto is to avoid copycats.


8 posted on 04/23/2023 5:23:18 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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Astronomically dangerous to whom?

Enquiring minds want to know.


9 posted on 04/23/2023 5:23:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Dear Representative Hudson,

My trust in the FBI is already gone.

Regards,

PhiloBedo


10 posted on 04/23/2023 5:25:14 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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It’s too dangerous because it shines light on and lays bare the whole psychotic “trans” agenda and the total evil that it is.


11 posted on 04/23/2023 5:25:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston told the NY Post, without elaborating. “That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.”

Oh please! This pure exaggeration.


12 posted on 04/23/2023 5:25:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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Adding Testosterone to Estrogen is a terrible idea. We all see what it does to the mind of trannies. This is why the FIB is holding the manifesto.


13 posted on 04/23/2023 5:25:33 PM PDT by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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“What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston told the NY Post, without elaborating. “That document in the wrong person’s hands would be astronomically dangerous,” she added.

Not your call, Karen-wench.

Desparate narrative control. Sue them if they don't release it now.

14 posted on 04/23/2023 5:25:53 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: rovenstinez

All by the design of democrats and the new “woke” law enforcement agencies. Thank the democrats and obama for “woke”


15 posted on 04/23/2023 5:26:26 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: george76

I don’t believe any of it.

It was so detailed and this is so dangerous, yet, it died within minutes of starting from something it had to have thought of, which was someone coming to shoot it.

Yeah, it’s bunk to protect LGBT+ people from association with it.


16 posted on 04/23/2023 5:26:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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“Nashville Official Says School Shooter’s Manifesto Is ‘Astronomically Dangerous’”

We know they are dangerous psychopaths so what else is new?


17 posted on 04/23/2023 5:26:57 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin

To what end? We already know she had a depraved mind and was willing to act on it. Why does the public need to know the details, aside from any that would be useful for preventing another attack? They can release information like that without giving other similarly depraved people a blueprint.


18 posted on 04/23/2023 5:27:18 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: george76
I'm sure that some people thought Thomas Paine's Common Sense was "astronomically dangerous," too.

-PJ

19 posted on 04/23/2023 5:27:56 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: george76

POST THE DAMN THING!!!


20 posted on 04/23/2023 5:29:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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