HUNTER: Bizarre trans vegan terror cult latest U.S. revolutionaries

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Denver talk radio host Alan Berg was number two with a bullet.

Berg — who was Jewish — had gotten under the skin of a rag-tag group of neo-Nazi revolutionaries using the crackpot Turner Diaries as their blueprint to overthrow the U.S. government.

He was second on their list of Jewish people they decided had to die.

They called themselves The Order. They planned to kill Jews, deport Black people to Africa and rip a page or two out of The Handmaid’s Tale.

On June 18, 1984, they ambushed Berg, 50, outside his home, hitting him with at least 14 bullets and leaving him dead in his driveway.

A new Jude Law movie streaming on Amazon Prime entitled The Order reimagines the investigation. When I saw it the other night, I thought of our whackos du jour: The Zizians.

This cabal is a curious blend of intellect, AI, veganism and transgender mythology morphed into revolutionary fervour.

According to cops, the Zizians have been linked to half a dozen murders from California to the Canadian border.

On Sunday, Maryland State Police said they took cult leader Jack LaSota, 34, into custody after raiding a rural property in the western end of the state. LaSota and suspected accomplice, Michelle Zajko, 33, were charged with trespassing, obstructing and hindering and weapons possession charges.

Two members of the group were involved in a shootout with the U.S. Border Patrol in Vermont just south of the Canadian border. The gun battle claimed the lives of Border Patrol agent David Maland and former Waterloo University math whiz, Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt.

Both Bauckholt and his alleged partner in crime, Teresa “Milo” Youngblut, identified as trans. Youngblut is now caged in a Vermont jail.

“We are dealing with highly intelligent people who know how to track somebody down if they want to,” said Brett Danielson, whose daughter was a Zizian but has vanished.

“If any one of them wants to do somebody harm, they are going to do anything they can do to track them down.”

The group’s alleged leader is LaSota, also transgender, who uses the name Andrea Phelps. Zajko also identifies as transgender.

Cops say Zajko purchased the guns used in the shootout on the border. Investigators traced bullets from one of the guns to a double homicide in Pennsylvania in 2022.

The victims? Her parents Richard Zajko, 72, and Rita Zajko, 69, were shot to death in their house on New Year’s Eve.

In that investigation, LaSota was charged with obstruction of justice for failing to cooperate. He skipped on his bail and in August 2022, tried to fake his death.

But cops say far from being dead, the Queen Bee was at the scene of a November 2022 murder involving several Zizians and their landlord in Vallejo, California. The trans army was squatting on the property of Curtis Lind, 80, and he was stabbed to death.

Previously, he had been attacked with a samurai sword by a Zizian named Emma Borhanian, who was shot and killed in the encounter. Detectives say Lind’s killer is Maximillian Bentley Snyder, 22. Where do they get these names?

History — and the American landscape — is littered with the corpses of low-rent revolutionaries. Born of conspiracy, alienation and crackpot ideas, they are enduring features of our cultural landscape.

The Order‘s quest to overthrow the government ended in bullets and life sentences. As did Posse Comitatus. Same with countless others.

Those twisted movements were born of the hardscrabble West and the working class.

The Zizians though were fertilized in the faculty lounge.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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