Genius is very often not far off from insanity
Alleged Zizians transgender cult leader interrupts judge to claim he will starve in jail without vegan food — as he’s ordered held without bail
Jack “Ziz” LaSota, 34 — who identifies as a woman and uses she/her pronouns — was arrested with followers Michelle Zajko, 33, and Daniel Blank, 26, in rural Frostburg, Maryland, on Sunday.
The trio appeared in Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland on Tuesday morning and were all held without bail.
Prosecutor James Elliot told the judge the Zizians are extremists and dangerous and are “believed to be involved in multiple homicides.” The prosecutor added that LaSota “appears to be the leader” of the group.
At one point, LaSota interrupted the hearing, blurting out to the judge: “I might starve to death if you do not intervene.
“I need the jail to be ordered to have a vegan diet,” LaSota said, according to a report by the Baltimore Banner. “It’s more important than whatever this hearing is.”
“I shouldn’t be here, I haven’t done anything wrong,” LaSota, appearing by video, told the judge at the hearing, according to a post on X by reporter Andy Ngo.
Judge Erich Bean ordered LaSota thrown behind bars, saying that he poses a danger to the community and is a flight risk.
LaSota has been accused of influencing members of the San Francisco Bay Area group to kill. The group is composed of extremely bright computer scientists in their 20s and 30s who came together online over their shared anarchist beliefs and evolved to become violent.
LaSota, Zajko and Blank are charged with trespassing, obstructing and hindering and possession of a handgun in the vehicle.
The eccentric group is tied to four murders in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California, authorities say. Two members have also been killed.
Teresa “Milo” Youngblut, 21, is accused of shooting and killing border agent David Maland, 44, during a traffic stop near the Canadian border on Jan. 20.
Youngblut and German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt allegedly opened fire on border agents in Coventry, Vermont, last month during a traffic stop. Bauckholt — an award-winning youth math genius — and Maland were both killed in the melee.
Youngblut — a computer science student at the University of Washington — pleaded not guilty to federal gun charges. She was wounded in the gunfight.
Youngblut previously applied for a marriage license with Maximilian Snyder, 22, who is accused of killing an 82-year-old landlord, Curtis Lind, on Jan. 17 in California.
Lind was previously attacked by other cult members when he tried to boot them from his property in Vallejo. Lind was found dead two days before the eviction was set to go through.
In a prior run-in, Lind shot Emma Borhanian, 31, in self-defense according to prosecutors. He was stabbed with a sword and partially blinded, only to be murdered months later by Snyder, prosecutors say.
Alexander Leatham, 29, and Suri Dao were charged in Borhanian’s death and for the attempted murder of Lind.
Zajko, a bioinformatics researcher, is a suspect in the January 2023 killings of her parents inside a Pennsylvania home.
The group of intellectuals have penned writings on radical veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence.
LaSota — a computer programmer who graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks — runs a blog under the name “Ziz” with writings that purport that the two hemispheres of the brain are warring with each other and often have “a desire to kill each other.”
He may be onto something there, but it is not the two hemispheres of the brain but an evil spirit that is fighting for its life against truth and reality.
LaSota’s lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday morning.
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