Leader of Trans Terrorist Cult "the Zizians" Arrested in Maryland

Note that the propaganda organization AP refuses to label this a trans terror cult. They only obliquely mention that, among their murderous cultist passions, is an interest in "gender identity."

Oh? What do they think about gender identity? Are they skeptical of transgenderism, AP? Are they "TERFs" like JK Rowling, perhaps?

They don't want to say that everyone involved in the cult is trans, and either a murderer or a conspirator to murder.

What does this cult believe in? AP won't say.

A Maryland court on Tuesday ordered a blogger known as Ziz who leads a cultlike group connected to six killings held without bail.

The blogger, Jack LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California, was arrested Sunday along with Michelle Zajko, 32, of Media, Pennsylvania, and Daniel Blank, 26, of Sacramento, California. They face charges including trespassing, obstructing and hindering and possession of a handgun in a vehicle.

The Zizians have been tied to the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland near the Canadian border in January and five other killings in three states.

LaSota, Zajko and Blank were arrested in Frostburg, Maryland, on Sunday afternoon.

The judge in the case ordered LaSota held without bail citing concerns about her being a flight risk and a danger to public safety. Prosecutors said LaSota "appears to be the leader of an extremist group known as Zizians" that has been linked to killings.

The three were expected to appear remotely for a bail hearing Tuesday at Allegany District Court in Cumberland, Maryland, court officials said.

The Zizians have been tied to the death of a woman during an attack on a California landlord in November 2022, the landlord's subsequent slaying in January, the December 2022 deaths of Zajko's parents in Pennsylvania and a highway shootout last month in Vermont that left U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland and a car passenger dead.

A Frostburg resident told police he wanted three "suspicious" people off his property after they'd parked two box trucks there and asked to camp for a month, according to police documents.

They were dressed in black and two wore gun belts holding ammunition, according to police. Officers found a rifle in the back of one truck and a handgun on the front floorboard. Zajko, who refused to put her hands behind her back and was taken to the ground, also was carrying a handgun, police said.

Maland, 44, was killed in a Jan. 20 shootout following a traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont, a small town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the Canadian border. Felix Bauckholt, a passenger in the car, also died, and the driver, Teresa Youngblut, has pleaded not guilty to federal firearms charges.

Officials have said the guns they were carrying were bought by a person of interest in the Dec. 31, 2022, deaths of Richard and Rita Zajko in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, and that Youngblut had been in close contact with a person of interest in a homicide in Vallejo, California.

Maximilian Snyder, who applied for a marriage license with Youngblut in November, is charged with the Jan. 17 stabbing death of Curtis Lind, a Vallejo landlord who had survived an earlier attack by members of the Zizian group and was set to testify against them.

Officials have offered few details of the cross-country investigation, but Associated Press interviews and a review of court records and online postings tell the story of how a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists, most of them in their 20s and 30s, met online, shared anarchist beliefs, and became increasingly violent.

Do they have anything else in common, AP?

I thought it might be worth mentioning that they're all transgenders, but I guess your News Judgment says otherwise.

Their goals aren't clear, but online writings included topics such as radical veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence.

Oh, "gender identity" is one of the topics they write about.

At the middle of it all is "Ziz," the leader of the strange group whose members are sometimes called "Zizians" in online forums.

LaSota published a dark and sometimes violent blog under the name Ziz and, in one section, described her theory that the two hemispheres of the brain could hold separate values and genders and "often desire to kill each other."

This is a man that the AP is calling a woman, by the way.

LaSota, who used she/her pronouns, and in her writings says she is a transgender woman, railed against perceived enemies, including so-called rationalist groups, which operate mostly online and seek to understand human cognition through reason and knowledge. Some are concerned with the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

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Pennsylvania state police records describe Daniel Blank as Michelle Zajko's housemate in Vermont. In January 2023, police investigating the shooting deaths of Zajko's parents detained both LaSota and Blank at a hotel where Zajko was staying. Blank was not charged. LaSota was charged with obstructing law enforcement and disorderly conduct.

If you found AP's selective and defensive report of the facts confusing -- it was intended to be -- John Sexton offers a much more direct and candid report.

Ziz attracted a group of other trans people who were associated with a movement called rationalism which was developing in the Bay Area, especially around Berkeley. Though highly educated, Ziz and members of his group seemed to want to live off the grid without being burdened by the need for careers or even regular jobs. Initially they intended to create a flotilla of boats captained by rationalists and they bought an old tug boat in Alaska and sailed it to California.

The old boat eventually became too much for them and they abandoned it. The new plan was to create a fleet of box trucks in which the group's members could live. Initially they lived on rented land in Vallejo, California but they soon stopped paying rent. The owner of the land, Curtis Lind, planned to have them removed by law enforcement at which point members of the group attempted to murder him. He survived, despite being run through with a samurai sword, and managed to shoot and kill one of his attackers.

Ziz was not charged in that crime though he was found to be at the scene despite having previously faked his own death. The other two members of the group who attacked Lind are awaiting trial. Lind was supposed to be the main witness against them but last month another person connected to the group murdered him, apparently to prevent him from testifying. A suspect in that case, Maximilian Snyder, has been arrested and is also facing trial.

More at the link. It's one thing for a news organization to soft-peddle the facts about a murderous terror group to protect "marginalized groups." It's another thing entirely to just omit those facts entirely. This is not news, it's Pink News. It's just trans propaganda.

The insanity of this group is undeniable. Not only do they have a habit of faking their own deaths, but, bizarrely, they pretend to be dead in their police mug shots.

Ann Coulter spoke with Andy Ngo about the Terror Cult That Dare Not Speak Its Name. She points out that if you're doing a Dry January, then you should drink every time the media mentions that this is a terror cult of transgender lunatics.

You will remain sober the whole month, because the media refuses to acknowledge this basic fact.

posted by Ace at 02:52 PM

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