“I Kill for God. I Listen to God”
Isaac Zamora, who is accused of killing six people in a Seattle-area shooting spree, gave his reasons at a hearing yesterday.
From the Seattle-PI:
MOUNT VERNON — Isaac Zamora, accused in the deaths of six people, says he kills for God.
“I kill for God. I listen to God,” Zamora said twice Friday, his first public words after being arrested in the killings of a deputy, two neighbors, two construction workers and a motorist.
Shackled, unshaven and dressed in an orange jumpsuit, he spoke while signing legal paperwork. He appeared in court for a complaint that prosecutors filed against him accusing him of six counts of first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree assault in Tuesday’s bloody rampage.
Now this is the part that I find interesting:
A 28-year-old housepainter with mental health problems, Zamora is accused of committing the deadly spree in the small community of Alger, violence that began with the fatal shooting of Skagit County Sheriff’s Deputy Anne Jackson. Jackson, 40, had been responding to a trespassing call about Zamora.
Prosecutors believe that Zamora also killed his neighbors Chester Rose, 58, and Julie Binschus, 48; carpenters David Radcliffe, 58, and Greg Gillum, 38, who were working in the area; and motorist Leroy Lange, 64, who was driving on Interstate 5.
Binschus’ killing was the only one in which prosecutors filed a premeditated murder charge.
Zamora is also accused of stabbing a 61-year-old neighbor, and of shooting Binschus’ husband and two other motorists. Those victims survived.
How is it that Zamora who apparently talks to God and gets his instructions to kill from God is considered to have “mental health problems” but people like President George W. Bush who has killed far more people in the name of God is considered to be sane?
Osama bin Laden kills in the name of God as well and millions of people around the globe consider him to be a moral authority. Why isn’t he considered mentally ill?
The law of identity says that A=A. Killing in the name of God equals killing in the name of God, no matter who does it. If it’s crazy for one person to do it, then it’s crazy for another.
But what defines mental illness is often determined by politics, not reason. A politically powerful person like Bush or Bin Laden can get away with killing in the name of God because they are really killing to satisfy a political demand for it–a political demand created by the existence of millions of people who think like Zamora: “I kill for God. I listen to God.”
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the VP nominee on McCain’s ticket also gets her order from God.
Interviews with the two pastors she [Palin] has been most closely associated with here in her hometown — she now attends the Wasilla Bible Church, though she keeps in touch with Mr. Riley and recently spoke at an event at his former church — and with friends and acquaintances who have worshipped with her point to a firm conclusion: her foundation and source of guidance is the Bible, and with it has come a conviction to be God’s servant.
“Just be amazed at the umbrella of this church here, where God is going to send you from this church,” Ms. Palin told the gathering in June of young graduates of a ministry program at the Assembly of God Church, a video of which has been posted on YouTube.
“Believe me,” she said, “I know what I am saying — where God has sent me, from underneath the umbrella of this church, throughout the state.”
Isaac Zamora has a lot of company in political circles. Who knows? Maybe that’s where he got the idea to listen to the voice of God in his head when it tells him to kill.
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