After being arrested in connection with a years-long, country-spanning string of murders, the alleged leader of a “Roko’s Basilisk” cult is insisting she hasn’t done anything wrong — and that she should be granted access to a vegan diet. As the San Fransisco Chronicle reports, Jack “Ziz” LaSota spoke ramblingly during her Maryland bail hearing last week that occurred after two young alleged “Zizians” were apprehended for a pair of slayings that took place in California and Vermont. “I haven’t done anything wrong,” LaSota told a judge during the February 18 hearing. “I shouldn’t be here.” A militant vegan whose animal rights beliefs are at the center of her writings — as does the concept of “Roko’s Basilisk,” a hypothetical artificial superintelligence that would retroactively torture anyone who didn’t help it come into existence — the 33-year-old former tech worker also begged Judge Erich Bean, the jurist presiding over her hearing, to give her food she could eat. “I must… I might starve to death,” Ziz told the judge. “I need… I need the jail to have a vegan diet. It’s more important than this hearing is.” LaSota went on to claim that she was being starved and suggested that a jail chaplain had denied her request for a vegan diet as some form of religious persecution. As a result, LaSota contended, she was delirious from malnutrition, which was part of her argument for being granted bail. “I think the idea that I [may] be mentally impaired for a month at…Alleged Leader of Roko’s Basilisk Murder Cult Says She Did Nothing Wrong, and Would Appreciate Some Vegan Food in Jail