Day: June 22, 2023

Moms Who Objected to CRT File Suit After Being Harassed by School

Moms Who Objected to CRT File Suit After Being Harassed by School

BY LINCOLN BROWN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/06/22/moms-who-objected-to-crt-file-suit-after-being-harassed-by-school-n1705379;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Two years ago, Amy Gonzalez and Andrea Gross, two Ohio moms with children in the Columbus Academy, had had enough of the school’s CRT and DEI policies. And like moms across the United States, they decided to take a stand and even gathered a coalition of like-minded parents to demand answers and solutions. In the video below, you can see why they spoke up and how the school tried to exact punishment and enforce compliance.

At the time, Gross and Gonzalez told ABC 6 in Columbus that their coalition wanted to know what was being taught and felt that they were not being heard. Gross said that people felt, “marginalized. Intimidated. Isolated. And ultimately discriminated against.” Gonzalez stated that the DEI agenda at the school felt like “inherent bigotry.”

The pair were accused by the school of “false and misleading attacks” and later informed them that their children would be denied re-enrollment that fall. The school also took the extra step of informing other families of the expulsion. In that letter, Head of School Melissa Soderberg claimed that Gross and Gonzalez  had “pursued a course of action that has been anything but civil, respectful, and faithful to the facts.” She also accused the pair of causing pain and fear for physical safety among the faculty, staff, students, and even their families. The station said that the pair made an appearance on a podcast. One parent who supported the school’s position listened and commented:

The language was very incendiary and I actually contacted the school after that podcast. We know there were children recording their class lectures and discussions in class at the urging of their parents. I think there is a chilling of discussion in the classroom that I think it’s really problematic. The school does not teach, per se critical race theory. There are certainly components the students, especially in the upper school are exposed to, but they are not taught how to think and they are not told what to think. I think it is heart-wrenching that the children are sort of collateral damage. The school does not teach, per se critical race theory. There are certainly components the students, especially in the upper school are exposed to, but they are not taught how to think and they are not told what to think. I think it is heart-wrenching that the children are sort of collateral damage.

Gross told the outlet, “I believe they are trying to send a message to the other members of our coalition that if you speak out and you ask questions that they will punish your innocent children.”

On June 12 of this year, Gonzalez and Gross filed an official complaint in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County. Fox News notes that the pair are seeking damages from the academy. The complaint states in part, “One teacher stated, on the first day of class, that he would not communicate with any student who supported President Trump. Politically charged issues were regularly taught and discussed in the classroom without opposing viewpoints presented.” The complaint also alleges that Latinos were not offered inclusion to the extent that other minorities enjoyed. The head of the academy’s security filed a report with the local police department and the school told faculty that it had reported the pair to the FBI. That portion of the complaint reads:

During the meeting when faculty was told the FBI had been alerted, the environment was such that one of the Academy’s faculty members raised his/her hand and asked if the Child Plaintiffs should be treated differently. Another member of faculty stated, “it sounds like we have a mole’” The actions of the Academy and those of its affiliates, as directed by the Academy, had an extreme impact on the wellbeing of Plaintiffs. The Academy falsely accused the Parent Plaintiffs of being dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the entire Academy community and destroyed their reputations with many of the people they had spent years working and learning with.

Gross told Fox that the school’s retaliation turned the community against her family to the point that her daughter left the state for her schooling.

Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too)

Four Children Rescued From Drag, Drugs and Sex Party in Squalid Boston Apartment (Oh, Yeah—There Was a Dead Guy There, Too)

BY ATHENA THORNE

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/06/22/four-children-rescued-from-drag-drugs-and-sex-party-in-squalid-boston-apartment-oh-yeah-there-was-a-dead-guy-there-too-n1705360;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

After crying out for help, four frightened children were rescued from a back bedroom in a squalid Boston apartment. Authorities had been called to the scene to assist an adult who had gone into cardiac arrest. They walked into an apparent drag party that featured sex toys, drug paraphernalia, and six adults who “appeared to be male.”

Boston 25 News reported:

Emergency crews responded to the apartment shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday morning, according to the police report. Boston Fire and EMS arrived first, followed by police. They found an adult dead. The cause of death remains under investigation.

[…]

According to the fire department report that I reviewed, firefighters found six adults “who appeared to be males” in the apartment, with four kids in a back bedroom. One of the men tried to stop first responders from going into the room where they found the children, who are ages 5 to 10. The report said the adults were uncooperative and denied having children inside the apartment.

[…]

The relationship between the four children and the adults remains unclear. The fire and police departments both filed reports with the state Department of Children and Families [DCF]. Police officers cited the “conditions of the home.”

NECN interviewed Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy, who told him she spoke with the Boston firefighters who found the children. “There was hoarding, a lot of uncleanliness in the apartment,” Murphy related. “Lots of sex toys and drug paraphernalia all over the place.”

Murphy said it was then that “One of the firefighters heard what they thought was a child’s voice calling for help.” She related that some of the revelers attempted to stop the firefighters from finding the children. “And when he opened the door, he saw four children and what I believe are two adults in the back room, and it was really disturbing to him and they just seemed scared.”

Sam Dillon, president of Boston Firefighters Local 718, told NECN, “I believe that our firefighters did save [the children’s] lives.” In an apparent reference to the deplorable and depraved conditions in the apartment, he added, “Had it not been for the quick response of Boston firefighters, had it not been for their diligence to observe everything that was going on, this would have been a lot worse.”

A DCF spokesperson confirmed that they’d since taken custody of the children, who lived in the Southie (South Boston) public housing apartment.

In a related story, the number of Americans who say same-sex relationships are morally acceptable plummeted by seven percent in the last year. A few years back, when it was just LGB, almost no one cared about consenting adults suiting themselves. But when the TQ+ crowd hitched their wagon to the rainbow and started grooming and indoctrinating toddlers and school children, parents took notice.

Don’t expect the Boston children’s story to get a lot of love from the mainstream media. They don’t want you to know about this sort of thing. Their only purpose is to promote woke narratives and suppress any news that exposes the dark side of their ideology. Here are some other horrifying stories my PJ Media colleagues have dragged up into the sunlight:

These transgender activists communicate with minors online and try to lure them from their families

This gay married couple caught raping and pimping their adopted special needs boys

This 12-year-old girl was raped by an older boy who was allowed in the school girls’ bathroom

There are more, but you get the idea. Any one of these hideous crimes, if committed by someone in a MAGA hat or at a Catholic school, would be front-page prime-time news for days. But because they were committed by the Left’s pet perverts, they get the silent treatment from Big Media.

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Obama Brings Back the Race Card

In 2023, Obama is still addicted to the politics of racial division.

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/obama-brings-back-the-race-card/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

In ‘Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America’, a book edited by Jamie Glazov and containing vital essays by different conservative thinkers, I went back in time to Obama’s 2004 DNC speech in which he celebrated that, “there’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” And then I contrasted those inspiring words with the ugly politics of racial division that he used to tear apart the nation.

Obama recently revisited those words on a CNN podcast with former consigliere David Axelrod. “I think may be the best speech you ever gave,” Axelrod told his old boss, quoting those lines. “I believe in these lines. You believe in these lines, but they feel almost sepia colored now because of what we’ve seen since. And the question is, what happened?”

Barack Obama dismisses “a bunch of post-racial fantasies” and then states that “those lines are aspirational and always have been”. To paraphrase Axelrod, of a lot of lies that Obama told, this may be the worst of them. The DNC lines were in the present tense and addressed to the moment. Obama began by claiming that “there are those who are preparing to divide us” and declared, “I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

Then he contended that pundits like “to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States… but I’ve got news for them, too… we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

None of this is aspirational. It claimed to be a present day description of the country and its current issues, right down to there “are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.” Any notion that it was some future aspiration could only exist as a secret equivocation living in one of the many chambers of Obama’s mental double life.

That Obama lies with shameless facility about things that are easy to check and that, unlike his successor, he doesn’t have the excuse of dementia or stuttering, isn’t new. And yet this particular big lie is important because it’s at the root of the damage that he inflicted on us.

Obama was telling the country that he did not believe it was racist. His agenda is now just the opposite. On the Axelrod podcast, he lashed out at Senator Tim Scott for using that message.

“I listened to Tim Scott, who’s running for president, and half of it sounds a lot like us. Half of it sounds a lot like what you were talking about in the speech in 2004 and in all of our speeches from that point on, which was, I am living proof that we are making progress as a country. I wouldn’t be here but for that progress,” Axelrod told Obama.

“I haven’t spent a lot of time studying Tim Scott speeches,” Obama sneered, in his trademark petty way. ” I think there is a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, everything’s great, and we can all make it.”

Obama attacks Scott for being willing to “validate America”. What was Obama doing then if he wasn’t validating America? The obvious answer is that he was invalidating America. And that may be the best possible description of Obama’s cultural and ideological legacy. After emerging as a trojan horse promising to validate America, he spent his career destroying its validity.

“Those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a United States of America, that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present,” Obama complained. Barack Obama has never even made an honest accounting of his own past, let alone his presidency, yet he keeps demanding that Americans account for things.

Barack Obama, the millionaire son of wealthy parents, invokes the myth that black people suffer “crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in the society”. In fact, generational poverty is a choice in each generation. Black children are three to five times more likely to be poor when they’re being raised by a single parent. The household wealth of a two parent black family is more than three times that of a single black family.

Obama knows this. Much like his DNC speech, he used to say these things.

“If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men,” he told a black church in Chicago in 2008.

“You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves.”

Then he continued by dismissing all the excuses that he now invokes, “yes, we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more after-school programs for our children. Yes, we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our communities. But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it’s the courage to raise one.”

Government and the welfare state were not going to fix the black community, fathers were.

There are some political hacks and leftist ideologues who don’t know what the truth is. They sincerely repeat lies because they don’t know any better and can’t think their way past them.

The infuriating thing about Obama was that he told the truth when it was politically convenient. And then, having won over white liberals and moderates, he pivoted to weaponizing race to divide Americans by treating black people like the perpetual victims of a racist country.

In 2023, Obama absurdly insists that black people can’t get jobs or buy houses, and that they’re still suffering from living in a perpetually racist country. Minority Republicans who want to offer a message of hope are dismissed for not “addressing some of the deep inequality that still exists in our society that tracks race and is a consequence of our racial history.”

Barack claims that there’s discrimination when it comes “to buying a house”. Which real estate agent, the one selling him his $8 million D.C. mansion or his $11 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion, objected to a half-black man buying the homes? The only people who protested Obama buying property in their neighborhood were Chicago black residents pushing back against his grandiose Obama Foundation construction project wrecking the area.

Nearly two decades after his famous 2004 post-racial DNC speech, Obama is even more of a racist hack addicted to the politics of racial division. He laughs at minority Republicans giving speeches that say, “look at me. I’m a Asian Indian-American woman. And my family came here and we worked hard. Clarence Thomas has probably gave the same speech at some point, I guarantee in some commencement, as did Alan Keyes, the first guy that I ran against.”

Scott replied to Obama by asserting, “let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth.” In this, he’s correct.

The power of the Democrats in general and Obama in particular is intimately tied up with invalidating America. As a post-racial president, Obama knew that his power would be limited, but as a crusader against a racist country, he would have the moral, if not the legal, authority to destroy all the infrastructure of an imaginary systemic racism and usher in a new world.

Obama sneers at minority Republicans for refusing to embrace unlimited power. The race card is unlimited and he has kindly lent it out even to old white guys like Joe Biden.

In ‘Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America’, I wrote that, “Barack Obama was, first and foremost, a community organizer. It was central to how he thought and acted. America was just a larger community to organize through the familiar tactics of division. As a candidate, Obama had preached healing and unity, but as a national leader, his overriding agenda was to convince some that they were the oppressed and others, oppressors.”

“What happened?” Axelrod asked Obama. What happened is that Obama didn’t want to unite us, he wanted to rule over us.

Obama started out claiming that, “there’s not a black America and white America”. And that’s true, there wasn’t until he brought them into being, dividing us in order to conquer us.

What’s Really to Blame for the Canadian Wildfires

Is it really about climate change?

BY WILLIAM D. BALGORD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/whats-really-to-blame-for-the-canadian-wildfires/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Smoke from forest fires arriving from Canada this summer is choking residents of the United States and millions more Canadians in the prairie and eastern provinces. Thick, roiling smoke may pose health hazards to the aged and infirm in both countries.

The origin of the fires traces back to late winter and spring.

An abnormally dry winter left Canada’s boreal forests in conditions ripe for fire outbreaks from various causes, including ignition from lightning strikes in tinder-dry material.

Forested portions of Alberta and British Columbia have been the sites of pine bark beetle infestations that have left millions of acres of dead trees and combustible residue on the ground. Beetle-damaged areas in remote locations are ideal places for conflagrations to start, where effective control is almost impossible. Wildfires in remote areas are often left to burn themselves out or await the arrival of rain.

Likewise, the situation in Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia involves leftover dryness from lack of normal snow-pack and spring rainfall leaving millions of acres susceptible to the fire outbreaks ultimately responsible for the influx of smoke clouds into the United States.

Once more environmental groups are hard at work seizing the opportunity to advance the notion that the wildfires that destroyed the homes of hundreds of California and Oregon residents in 2021, and now in Canada, are evidence for man-made climate change.

It has been shown instead that high summer temperature and dry conditions are the climate norm for portions of the Pacific states east of the Coast Range. Southern California and interior Oregon are seasonally dry and, on average, receive less than 10 inches of rainfall (total precipitation) throughout the year.

Rather than unusual dryness brought on by the effect of some nebulous man-made climate change, it is often government policies that guide or demand strict avoidance of functional fire prevention measures that had helped suppress wildfire in earlier decades and are now outlawed in California. These are the underlying causes of the wildfires.

No longer can California homeowners, ranchers, or commercial forest managers conduct sensible brush removal operations or controlled burns to reduce flammable material in vulnerable forest land near their domiciles or farm structures. Controlled burns had played an integral role in controlling the severity of wildfire in California and in many other rural parts of the country since the times indigenous tribes inhabited the land.

But at the insistence of modern-day preservationists, it became no longer an acceptable practice to groom the landscape to prevent outbreaks of catastrophic wildfires, abetted by a plethora of prohibitive laws and regulations.

The Livermore Laboratory study funded by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that increasing carbon dioxide levels derived from the combustion of fossil fuels is the primary culprit responsible for wildfire in North America. Livermore’s computer model outputs serve no instructive purpose since it has become common knowledge that climate models can be (and often are) groomed to yield the results their creators desire.

Reviews of the prevalence of wildfire by hazard expert Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. show no clear trends to date over the previous hundred years, neither increases nor decreases in the incidence of major wildfires within the natural setting. Attempting to attribute increases in dollar-value losses from natural fires to climate change simply ignores the role of vastly increased casualty losses from private and public property (infrastructure) being destroyed.

The actual reason behind recent outbreaks begins with deficient management practices leading to forest overgrowth and disease, lack of use of fire to clear out excess tinder, pressure by naïve environmental groups to preserve lands in their pre-conceived “primeval” state, pine-bark beetle infestations leaving behind dead trees and combustible litter, drier than normal weather patterns beginning in 2021, lack of preparedness on the part of forestry agencies. The Canadian wilderness, along with burnt over California forests, becomes the unwitting victim.

Stubborn dryness prevails over much of western Canada and the US that can be understood as the result of a tardy reappearance of the El Nino phase of the cyclical ENSO oscillation in the Pacific Ocean. The La Nina (cold surface-water phase in the eastern Pacific) has been slow to decay resulting in less than average moisture being added to the atmospheric streams headed landward and into the Gulf of Mexico. This important effect is entirely lost in media accounts of the Canadian fires.

An estimated 6.7 million plus acres are affected across Canada, including earlier fires in Alberta and British Columbia. Now in Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, the fires continue to burn as of mid-June. Today, the Midwest once again lies under a gray haze of Canadian smoke.

The current situation begs comparison with the single worst outbreak of wildfire in United States history. The Great Peshtigo fire (October 8, 1871) stands as the worst in terms of loss of life. An estimated 1,500 to 2,500 residents in the lumbering community perished in the firestorm, following four-months without measurable rainfall.

The conflagration roared through the community and several counties north of Green Bay up into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This tragedy cannot be attributed to climate change effected by man-made greenhouse-gas CO2 yet to be emitted more than a century later.

North American wildfires have been a common occurrence spanning the millennia since before the arrival of the first settlers from Asia. Repeated periods of drought are evident in tree-ring and lake varve sequences. The current dry periods in the desert southwest are more often the climate norm, than otherwise representing departures suggestive of man-caused interventions.

The earlier fires in Alberta and British Columbia correlate with region-wide infestations of the mountain pine-bark beetle that has killed millions of acres of lodge-pole pines in British Columbia. The pest is aided by overcrowding of forest stands left unattended, but has been part of that ecosystem for many centuries.

Wildfire is nature’s own way of dealing with over-abundance, whether in standing forests or shrub and grasslands. Regular fire outbreaks reduce the buildup of combustibles, pests and disease vectors, usually before the arrival of a far more intense crown fire with devastating effect on plant and animal life, including endangered plant and animal species.

Native Americans were known to set “controlled burns” during mild weather (low winds and moist conditions) to reduce combustibles that might trigger a conflagration. The indigenous are often wiser than many modern-day experts, who demand our forests and scrub-lands be left to their own devices.

Without benefit of timber harvesting or controlled burns, benign neglect inevitably leads to destructive wildfires, whether set by lightning, careless campers, or sparks from a power line. The act that ignites the fire is less important than the underlying cause connected with derelict forest mismanagement.

Unreasonable demands by groups intending to preserve forest and range lands in a “primeval” state lead to the adoption of unwise management policies by agencies charged with the welfare of the natural order.

Love, absent proper direction, offers no guarantee of a positive outcome.

William D. Balgord, Ph.D. (geochemistry) heads Environmental & Resources Technology, Inc. in Middleton, WI.

 

Nashville Victims Testify

The trans ideology is a justification for deadly violence.

BY LLOYD BILLINGSLEY

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/nashville-victims-testify/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The FBI is still blocking release of Audrey Hale’s manifesto that could reveal her motive for gunning down six people at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, in the run-up to the “Trans Day of Vengeance.”  While revelations await, Hale’s youngest victims can testify through their recently released autopsies. Consider, for example, Hallie Scruggs, daughter of Covenant Presbyterian pastor Chad Scruggs.

The nine-year-old girl sustained an “indeterminate range gunshot wound of the head,” that caused injuries to the scalp, left temporal bone, and left temporal lobe of the brain. An “indeterminate range gunshot wound of the pelvis,” entering at the left lower abdomen, caused injuries to Scruggs’ left femoral artery, vein and soft tissue.

Hale also shot Scruggs in the “lower left extremity,” on the “left proximal thigh.” The shot caused injuries to multiple ribs, lungs, spleen, kidneys, thoracic vertebra, thoracic spinal cord, diaphragm and liver. A bullet was recovered, with “a small amount of green paint at the tip,” an indicator that Hale deployed the 5.56/223 Remington caliber ammunition. The trajectory of the shot was “left to right, downward, back to front,” with “the entrance wound on the left upper lateral back.”

Forensic pathologist Kevin B. Jenkins, M.D., also found “a 1-1/4 inch gaping exit wound on the left back located 12 inches from the top of the head.” There was also a “3/4 inch gaping exit wound on the right lateral chest,” from a shot in the back. The exit wounds are “are consistent with exit of the bone fragments.”

According to forensic pathologist Emily H. Dickinson, M.D., nine-year old William Joseph Kinney suffered a tangential graze wound “through the scalp, skull, and bilateral cerebral hemispheres,” causing “subgaleal hemorrhage, skull fractures, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and lacerations of the brain.”

Hale also shot the male child in the torso and right arm, causing perforation of the ribs and thoracic vertebrae, right lung and soft tissue of the right arm. The victim also sustained “spinal cord laceration with associated epidural and subdural hemorrhage, and thoracic vertebral fractures.” The direction of the shot was “left to right, back to front, and downward.”

William Kinney also sustained a “perforating gunshot” of the abdomen and a “graze gunshot” of the left wrist. Hale also shot the boy in the torso, perforating the left shoulder, two ribs, left lung and diaphragm. The entrance wound showed stippling, evidence that Hale shot the male child at point blank range. Kinney’s right arm and forearm also showed stippling and the pathologist discovered “minor blunt force trauma of the body.”

Dr. Dickinson also performed the autopsy on Covenant School student Evelyn Dieckhaus. The nine-year old female suffered a perforating gunshot wound of the bilateral arms and torso. The shot damaged both lungs, the aorta, right brachial plexus, right axilla, right humerus and soft tissue of the right arm. Hale also shot the girl in the “posterior torso,” perforating the left lung, seven thoracic vertebrae and the spinal cord. The direction of the shot was “back to front,” and shooter Audrey Hale wasn’t done.

The nine-year-old  Evelyn Dieckhaus also suffered perforating gunshot wounds in the left arm and right hip, causing tissue hemorrhage and crest fracture wounds to the right buttock. Hale also shot the child in the left leg, left thigh and left buttock, causing soft tissue damage and fractures.

Another shot grazed the child’s abdomen and a shot in the pelvis caused wounds to the vasculature, the bladder, and a fracture of a lumbar vertebrae. The direction of the shot was “from back to front.”

Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs all died from “multiple gunshot wounds” and were “shot by another person,” which indicates “homicide.” The three youngest victims were also shot “in school,” the same school Audrey Hale had attended. The shooter gathered school yearbooks, drawn maps and surveilled the site for months.

On March 27, the 28-year-old Hale armed herself with an AR-15-style rifle, with a retractable stock  labeled “CRUNT///,” in bold white letters. Hale also packed a 9mm Kel-tec SUB carbine, a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun, and significant ammunition. She shot her way into the school and her first victim was African American custodian Mike Hill, 61.

Hale gunned down schoolmaster Katherine Koonce and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak but children were the primary targets. Hale shot the three nine-year-olds in the head, back, abdomen, pelvis, legs and arms. She shot at indeterminate range, and close enough to leave stippling. The shooter also took the time to apply blunt force trauma to William Kinney.

Each shot would have been enough to maim and kill the children but Audrey Hale kept on firing, unleashing 152 rounds in all. Homicide investigators call this “overkill” and it should not be surprising from Audrey Hale, who thought she was a man.

As Bruce Bawer explains, the trans movement is a “revolution against reality itself,” and with the loss of reality comes the loss of humanity. Empathy and reason go missing, replaced by hatred and violence. Those who adhere to biological reality are smeared as “transphobes” presumed to be guilty of “genocide.” That, in turn, justifies any action against them.

The Trans Resistance Network proclaimed that Audrey Hale “had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.” On March 27, 2023, she did.

Joe Biden failed to identify or condemn the shooter, failed to name a single murder victim, and did not attend any of the funerals. Days after the massacre, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.”

Audrey Hale doubtless clarified her motive, but trans activists were adamant that her manifesto not be released. With the FBI involved, the material may never be released in full and true form. In the meantime, the autopsies of Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus don’t lie. The trans ideology is a justification for deadly violence.