What Are They Hiding About the Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto? Glenn Greenwald (and Others) Want To Know

by LINCOLN BROWN

A short time back, our editor-in-chief said that there had been a school shooting in Nashville, and asked if anyone would cover it. I wrote the first story about it for PJ Media. It wasn’t the first time I had ever written about human tragedy or cruelty. And I have hated doing it every time. I always feel like Judas collecting his 30 pieces of silver from someone else’s suffering.

Be that as it may, the Nashville shooting mattered, and not just because it gave the Left more talking points about the evils of gun ownership. After all, if we are being honest, the Left can come up with talking points about the evils of gun ownership over a skeeball game. What the Nashville murders revealed was the level of disconnect affecting the transgender movement. As did the fact that everyone from the White House on down seemed to be less concerned with the victims and their families than with the transgender community. Also conspicuously absent from the debate has been the incendiary language that that community has used.

Pertinent information seems to be in the manifesto written by the woman who committed the crimes. And that manifesto has been declared off-limits, so it would appear that no one is getting access to it. That includes journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has even enlisted the aid of lawyers to get the manifesto from the Nashville Police Department. But the firms have decided to back out of the effort.

We've spoken with 2 major law firms in Nashville who said they'd send retainer letters to represent us suing FBI and the Nashville PD to obtain the manifesto of the Nashville shooter, only to back out at the last second.

The political pressures are intense. We should see it.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 17, 2023

“This isn't about the trans debate—it's about the right of journalists to seek public records & illuminate things we ought to know about a horrific killing.

Instead, there seems to be an effort to paper over it.”

Our stonewalled attempt to uncover the Nashville manifesto👇 pic.twitter.com/WUm3M2kgmc

— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) April 18, 2023

In his show on Rumble, Greenwald pointed out that had this been an incident involving a far-right extremist, the manifesto would have been made public. It would have been front-page news everywhere one looked. And Greenwald also noted that understanding the shooter’s motivation is important for a myriad of reasons. Not the least of which is to prevent people from exploiting it. And in the interest of full disclosure, Greenwald might consider this column to be an example of such exploitation. But Greenwald also makes the point that the shooter probably does not fit the narrative that the media and various other entities find so tasty.

There are undoubtedly numerous things with which Greenwald and I might not see eye to eye. We may even wildly disagree about the shooter’s motives or the things that caused the incident. But I respect his desire to get to the heart of the matter and deal with the facts. And as John Adams once said, “Facts are stubborn things.” And the facts may not always favor the side that interests any given individual. Greenwald is trying to get to those facts, and even the lawyers have deserted him. But the question is: why? What is it about the manifesto that requires its contents to remain hidden?

The mainstream media is asserting that conservatives are attempting to co-opt the issue into an anti-trans narrative. But hiding the manifesto only fuels speculation. As Noah Rothman at National Review observes:

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