The Nashville ‘Manifesto’ Leak Isn’t Enough

by Roger L. Simon

What’s most surprising about the alleged release of the (so far) three pages of the long-hidden manifesto from the Nashville Covenant School transgender (female to male) mass murderer of six, including three children, is how unsurprising, how banal, and how predictable they are.

As published on Nov. 6 by media personality Steven Crowder, Audrey Elizabeth Hale’s alleged manifesto reads like the ravings of the most conventional “woke” leftist written in the style of an arrested 12-year-old on steroids.

Laden with expletives, the now-deceased Ms. Hale allegedly rattles on about wanting to “kill those kids!” who are “going to fancy private schools … w/ thier daddies Mustangs & convertables [sic].” She even misspells “privlages” while going after—you’ll be shocked—the “white privilege” of her victims. (I guess you could say it takes one to know one.)

The general illiteracy of her writings for someone in her late 20s doesn’t speak especially well for the educational level of the Covenant School from which Ms. Hale herself graduated years ago, but a more important issue is raised.

Why was this all such a big secret in the first place?

Is it because Ms. Hale might have been a leftist or, worse, a transgender leftist?

No wonder Nashville’s oh-so-orthodox-liberal journalist Phil Williams immediately jumped into the fray on X, formerly known as Twitter, to inform us: “Multiple sources have told me that the selective leak of three pages of the #CovenantSchool shooting ‘manifesto’ is EXTREMELY misleading. People who have read the whole thing say ‘there’s something in there for everybody.’ Another, ‘She hated everybody.’”

To which I say, “So what?”

But first, I must give Mr. Williams his due. Mr. Crowder’s release is a bit disturbingly theatrical. If the three pages are all he has, it behooves him to say so explicitly. Someone leaked this to his people selectively for a reason. If he’s hiding the rest, we want to see it—and better to see it all at once.

Nevertheless, Mr. Williams’s complaint is merely whining about facts he doesn’t like. We can assume, for the health of humanity, such as it is, that Ms. Hale “hated everybody.” If she wasn’t crazy, then we’re all in trouble.

What Mr. Williams and his ilk don’t want to know is why this 20-something woman wanting to be a man turned into a rage killer.

Why did this woman, of all people, dress up like Hamas (apologies for the contemporary reference) and go on a Hamas-like rampage, shooting everyone in sight?

Williams & Co. aren’t alone in not wanting to know.

Apparently, they’re joined by the higher reaches of Tennessee state officials, Republican and Democrat, going all the way up to the governor’s office in this red state.

You would think there would have been a strong public interest in the truth, by which I mean the whole truth, considering this was a mass murder that no one would want to see replicated, not in Nashville or anywhere else.

The obfuscation is therefore shameful, and cowardly, no matter whose ox is gored.

Yes, there are privacy concerns, but essential information is missing that need not be redacted if available.

Nowhere is that more meaningful than the toxicology report, such as it was.

Missing from this report was any indication of the amount of testosterone that Ms. Hale may have been taking in her attempt to transition, nor any indication of the amount of any possible anti-depressants.

Both of these are crucial, particularly the testosterone.

No one knows exactly, maybe not even approximately, the amount of this male hormone that can be tolerated when administered artificially to a female body with upward of 30 trillion (with a “t”) cells, all with the double-X chromosomes of their birth sex.

What happens when they go on “tilt”?

Does an overdose, whatever that may be, and it’s likely to vary, take a disturbed, neurotic individual over the edge into uncontrollable violence? Wouldn’t that be good to know for the protection of all?

We also don’t know whether there was any attempt to measure for testosterone in the first place by city officials—that would be extreme malpractice, if not—nor do we know what the psychologist or psychiatrist treating Ms. Hale prescribed, if anything.

Normally, this is justifiably private, but when multiple murders are involved and the alleged perpetrator is dead, doesn’t this cross the line into information the public should have for its own safety going forward?

We do know that fortunes are being made in what Christopher Rufo calls the “transgender empire.” It was revealed here in Nashville when a doctor inadvertently disclosed the stupendous amount of money being made at Vanderbilt Hospital in the “transgender game” that created lifetime patients.

But something worse is afoot than mere cash. In his recent essay for Imprimis, Mr. Rufo writes:

“Some trans activists even view their movement as the future of Marxism. In a collection of essays titled ‘Transgender Marxism,’ activist writer Rosa Lee argues that trans people can serve as the new vanguard of the proletariat, promising to abolish heteronormativity in the same way that orthodox Marxism promised to abolish capitalism.”

So Audrey Elizabeth Hale was the vanguard of the proletariat.

If you’re looking for an explanation of why Mr. Williams is alarmed by the “selective” publication of the manifesto, that may well be it.

Let’s hope there’s a fuller explanation to come.

And indeed some is beginning to come out already. I was awakened in the small hours of Nov. 7 with a video by Sara Gonzalez on Rumble discussing allegations that Ms. Hale had previously attempted to enter the school and had a history with the school’s principal.

If true, authorities, including our old friends the FBI, were well aware of the dangerous insanity of Ms. Hale well before her fatal shootings but did next to nothing. This could indicate a massive coverup that calls for an equally massive public accounting. Stay tuned.

First published in the Epoch Times.