{"id":15866,"date":"2025-09-22T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:48:15","slug":"die-erfindung-eines-feindbildes-wie-ein-geleaktes-fbi-dokument-verstoerendes-aufzeigt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-erfindung-eines-feindbildes-wie-ein-geleaktes-fbi-dokument-verstoerendes-aufzeigt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of an Enemy Image \u2013 How a Leaked FBI Document Reveals Something Disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a document that was never intended for the public. Stamped by the \u201cBuffalo Port Intelligence Unit,\u201d sent to only two or three recipients, marked with a title that sounded like a headline: \u201cRadical Leftist Trans Militant Cult.\u201d Below it: names, photos, the most serious accusations. The talk was of the \u201cZizians,\u201d a sect-like group led by Jack Amadeus \u201cZiz\u201d LaSota. The briefing stated that the Zizians were responsible for the killing of Border Patrol agent David Maland in Vermont, for the murder of Curtis Lind in California, and for at least four other acts of violence. LaSota, according to the paper, \u201cidentifies as a trans person\u201d and is wanted in two states for six homicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is how it stood in black and white. But what was missing was at least as striking as what was included. There were no case numbers, no verifiable evidence, no documents that would have held up in court. It was a suspicion list, not an indictment. And yet it was precisely this paper that became the basis for a political campaign that went far beyond the actual investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leaks mention real names and cases of violence \u2013 but the overall picture is more complex: The most clearly documented is the murder of Curtis Lind (Vallejo, 2022), main witness against the Zizian member Alexander \u201cSomni\u201d Leatham; the alleged perpetrator Maximilian Bentley Snyder is currently on trial for it. In the papers, further acts are attributed to the Zizians, such as the death of Border Patrol agent David Maland in Vermont \u2013 but to this day there are no publicly verifiable files for that. What is decisive for the classification is what serious research on the milieu shows: The scene does not recruit from \u201cleft-wing activists,\u201d but from Rationalist circles around LessWrong\/CFAR, where Ziz\/Jack LaSota had been active for years with his own ideology \u2013 radical veganism (\u201cCarnism as Holocaust\u201d), an eccentric \u201cHemisphere Theory\u201d (brain hemispheres as separate \u201cpersons\u201d), \u201cDebucketing\u201d as detachment from identities, and the deliberately cult-like self-staging as \u201cSith.\u201d Already in 2019 Ziz and supporters, masked, blocked a CFAR reunion and distributed a pamphlet that explicitly claimed \u201cAlignment\u201d as a moral foundation \u2013 an early sign of the sectarian claim, but not a left-wing agenda. The much-cited Vermont shootout also fits this pattern: The participants were not migrants but technically trained Rationalists (among them Teresa Youngblut and a German quant) who, according to scene accounts, were \u201cZiz-related.\u201d And the sweeping number \u201csix murders by LaSota\u201d remains unsubstantiated to this day. In short: Yes, there is real violence by individuals from this milieu; no, it is neither in ideology nor structure a \u201cleft-extremist murder cult.\u201d The label is politically imposed \u2013 the reality is a small, sect-like, rationalist-inspired splinter group beyond the left-right spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LaSota was not only a real person but also an ideologue. His writings revolve around transhumanist ideas, veganism, and a self-invented theory called \u201ctimeless decision theory.\u201d In it he claimed that personalities could continue to exist independently in separate brain hemispheres. To outsiders it seems like a construct of esoteric philosophy and internet forum logic \u2013 for his followers it was a justification for radicalism and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n