“You do not understand me. I do not expect you to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us….I don’t believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society. I need not look beyond this courtroom to see all the liars, the haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards….You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all. We are all expendable for a cause. No one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of God and country…..Legions of the night, night breed! Repeat not the errors of night prowler and show no mercy.”
— Richard Ramirez, Encyclopedia of Satanism

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Ramirez's statements at his trial.

Tagged: Maggots, Hypocrites, Night Breed, Night Prowler, merciless, Moralism, Lucifer, Dogma, Avenged, Evil, Beyond Good and Evil
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