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On March 29, Good Friday, Joe Biden declared March 31, Easter Sunday, a “Transgender Day of Visibility.” To appreciate the depravity in play, the Delaware Democrat’s action should be seen in context.
Back on March 15, federal judge Aleta Trauger “ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over documents for a private review in an ongoing Freedom of Information Act case that will decide if the public will see documents related to the Covenant School shooter’s motives.” The documents did not emerge before March 27, one year since Audrey Hale, shot dead nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with Covenant headmaster Katherine Koonce, custodian Mike Hill and teacher Cynthia Peak. Hale killed them in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.” Joe Biden failed to identify or condemn the shooter, failed to name a single murder victim, and did not attend any of the funerals. This year, Biden made no statement on Hale’s mass atrocity, which got mixed coverage in national and local media.
The Tennessee Star named all the victims and noted that the shooting “was carried out by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as transgender.” The Tennesseean named the victims “gunned down in a mass shooting,” but the shooter was not identified. The Associated Press story failed to name any victims or identify Audrey Hale, 28, whose possible motive also escaped notice.
A former student at the school, Audrey Hale carefully planned the attack for months. She compiled a massive “manifesto,” which police, the FBI, and trans activists sought to keep suppressed. According to the Trans Resistance Network (TRN), Audrey Hale had “no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the lives of others.” That evokes the deadly dynamics behind the Nashville murder spree.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained, the line between good and evil runs straight down the middle of the human heart, and all human hearts. For the left, that line runs between social classes, nobles and peasants, workers and bosses, rich and poor, blacks and whites, and so forth. Trans ideology, the anti-scientific belief that woman can become men and vice versa, takes this division to another level.
“Homosexuality and transgenderism are two utterly different phenomena,” explains Bruce Bawer, author of A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, but both groups are now enlisted in “the LGBTQ+ family.” That construct makes about as much sense as VBTPTA, the Vegetarian Butcher Terrorist Pacifist Teetotaler Alcoholic “family” or “community.”
Bawer outs the trans movement as a “revolution against reality itself,” a division that pits those who recognize reality against those who don’t. The trans types believe they are under attack from those who recognize reality. Those people, the trans types have convinced themselves, are guilty of “genocide.” They thus qualify for deadly violence, fueled by another dynamic.
“Nothing is more dangerous than a general idea in narrow, empty minds,” explains Hippolyte Taine, historian of the French Revolution. “As they are empty, it finds no knowledge there to interfere with it; as they are narrow it is not long before it occupies the place entirely. Henceforth they no longer belong to themselves but are mastered by it; it works in them and through them, the man, in the true sense of the word, being possessed.”
Government education and the onslaught of wokeness have left many minds empty and narrow, Audrey Hale’s prominent among them. The general idea that women can become men occupied her entirely, to the point that she was literally possessed. Hale fired more than 150 rounds, killing some children at point blank range, and applying blunt force trauma to several victims.
Even in Washington, it’s hard to think of anybody with a narrower or emptier mind than Joe Biden, in Conrad Black’s phrase a wax-works effigy of a president. Biden is all-in with the general idea, the killer construct, and the revolt against reality. In that cause, the Delaware Democrat is hardly alone.
Last year, two months after the Nashville massacre, the Biden White House marked the anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Kamala Harris named all the Uvalde victims but last year failed to name the Nashville victims or condemn Audrey Hale. An online search reveals no statement by Harris on the anniversary of Audrey Hale’s attack.
According to Nashville police, in 20 journals and assorted writings Hale documented, “her planning over a period of months to commit mass murder at the Covenant School,” and Hale “considered the actions of other mass murderers.” In portions of the manifesto leaked last November, Hale wrote “wanna kill all you little crackers,” and expressed hope for a “high death count.” Custodian Mike Hill was black, but Harris has not charged that Hale could have been motivated by racism.
Despite Judge Trauger’s order, Hale’s full manifesto yet to be revealed. With uncritical support from the “Biden-Harris” administration, don’t be surprised if the Transmaid’s Tale gets a repeat performance.