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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

The apparent leader of a bizarre vegan transgender cult, the Zizians — which has been linked to six killings across the country, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent — interrupted a judge at his hearing Monday to say he’ll starve unless he’s given vegan food in jail. 

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.”

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Jack LaSota was held without bail at a court hearing following a Sunday arrest.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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LaSota is the apparent leader of a radical and violent group called the Zizians after LaSota’s nickname, “Ziz.”

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The group is linked to six murders, including of US border agent David Maland.

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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.

Child Abuse for 12 years in Kansas City cult - United Nation of Islam

 

This is the second story this month where parents voluntarily gave custody of their children over to the company they work for with only their word for what would happen to them. It's madness!

6 cult leaders convicted of forcing kids

to work unpaid or face ‘eternal hellfire’

By Kathryn Mannie  Global News

Posted September 18, 2024 9:54 am

 4 min read

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The Department of Justice seal is seen in Washington, Nov. 28, 2018. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

Six members of a Kansas-based cult have been convicted for a decade-long scheme that used children for unpaid labour under threat of beatings, while keeping them in overcrowded, rodent-infested housing, U.S. prosecutors announced.

Kaaba Majeed, 50, Yunus Rassoul, 39, James Staton, 62, Randolph Rodney Hadley, 49, Daniel Aubrey Jenkins, 43, and Dana Peach, 60 — all high-ranking members of the cult or wives of the organization’s late founder — were found guilty of conspiracy to commit forced labour. Majeed was additionally convicted of five counts of forced labour.

The cult in question is known as the United Nation of Islam and the Value Creators (UNOI), and was founded in 1978 by Royall Jenkins as an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, a Black American religious organization — not to be confused with the centuries-old religion of Islam. Jenkins persuaded his followers that he was abducted by aliens who took him through the galaxy and showed him the proper way to rule Earth, according to a 2018 court case against him for forced labour. He died in 2021 from complications of COVID-19.

In a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, officials detailed how some of Jenkins’ wives and right-hand men manipulated cult members to hand over their children for educational opportunities that ended up being a lie. The kids were instead forced to perform unpaid labour in horrendous working conditions, with some of the victims as young as eight years old at the time.

If the children didn’t follow the cult’s rules, they were punished severely. Food was withheld, victims were locked in dark basements and forbidden from speaking to others for upwards of two weeks, extra work was imposed and beatings were regular, prosecutors say. Sometimes the beatings would take place in front of others to create a climate of fear.

“The defendants even held one victim upside-down over train tracks because he would not admit to stealing food when he was hungry,” prosecutors write. “Another victim drank water from a toilet because she was so thirsty after not being permitted to drink.”

The cult leaders told the children they would burn in “eternal hellfire” if they left.

Parents within the cult were enticed to hand over their children so they could participate in educational and work-experience programs at UNOI-operated businesses, which included restaurants, bakeries, gas stations and sewing factories. But the “promises were false,” prosecutors write. The minors did not receive education from a licensed school and instead “worked excessive hours for UNOI’s financial benefit,” sometimes upwards of 16 hours a day.

The children were cut off from their parents, support networks and the outside world, with cult leaders controlling the victims’ clothing, communications and reading materials, and where they were allowed to go. What the victims ate was also strictly controlled, especially the girls, in order to maintain a certain weight.

Some of the victims worked in UNOI businesses in Kansas City but others were trafficked out of state to work in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Georgia and North Carolina. When they weren’t working, the children lived in overcrowded facilities often overrun with mould, mice and rats.

The scheme took place between October 2000 and November 2012. Apart from propping up the cult’s many businesses with unpaid labour, victims were used for child care and domestic services inside the cult leaders’ homes.

Now, I wonder what kind of services they had to provide. This was a terrific opportunity for pedophiles to take advantage of these kids, and yet there is no mention of such a thing in this report. Nor is there any mention of the number of children involved, was it a few, dozens, perhaps hundreds?

“None of the victims was ever compensated for the years of work they performed at UNOI businesses or at the behest of the defendants,” prosecutors write.

The defendants’ sentencing hearings have been set for February, with Majeed facing up to 20 years in prison. The other five defendants face up to five years.

Two other co-defendants, Etenia Kinard, 48, and Jacelyn Greenwell, 45, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit forced labour.

In May 2018, U.S. Judge Daniel Crabtree called the group a cult and ordered it to pay US$8 million to a woman who said she spent 10 years performing unpaid labour.

“The United Nation of Islam and these defendants held themselves out as a beacon of hope for the community, promising to educate and teach important life skills to members, particularly children,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said. “Instead, the defendants betrayed this trust, exploiting young children in the organization by callously compelling their labor.

What kind of parents surrender their children to a cult where they don't even bother to check the program or the child's well being? It's madness, and they will answer to God for what they did with His gift to them. The parents should all be prosecuted for abandoning their children.

But it is not the first time we have encountered this scheme, not even the first time this month.Halfway around the world another company had a similar program, but they trafficked their kids for sex perverts.What they had in common was the name of Islam:

Islam Hates Girls and Women > Malaysian police rescue 402 children from sex abuse in Islamic care homes

”The bravery shown by victims of the United Nation of Islam is inspiring, because they spoke up about heinous atrocities committed against them as vulnerable children,” said U.S. Attorney Kate E. Brubacher for the District of Kansas. “In childhood, they suffered physical and emotional abuse, were denied a proper education, and were subject to forced labor. As adults, these victims found the strength and courage to pursue justice and face their abusers.”

“Today’s convictions should serve as a stark warning that forced labor will not be tolerated,” Special Agent Stephen Cyrus of the FBI Kansas City Field Office said.