Reason First: Murderous Menendezs-Lyle Bought a Porsche, Erik Hired a Full-Time Tennis Coach

Patient-professional confidentiality only goes so far. On Halloween 1989, psychiatrist Jerome Oziel listened to his patient Erik Menendez divulge a shocking and bloody secret. He and his brother had committed parricide. Oziel knew that this type of information must be handed over to law enforcement officials.

Lyle received the cold steel of justice around his wrists on March 8, 1990. Erik then relinquished himself to police custody three days after.

Claims of sexual abuse by both parents especially the father, Jose Menendez, found their way into the courtroom. The defense attempted to make this a part of the dialogue. The jury balked. They sensed what the two brothers were: homicidal maniacs.

Once again, the money became the conceptual scapegoat to the brothers. Already quite wealthy as a family unit, the brothers resided in a $4 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills. Is this privilege? How can this even be a concept when there are scores of children with access to cash who don’t execute their parents? The money is a tool for producing, saving, and exchanging. In all, the jury found Erik and Lyle Menendez guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in additon to conspiracy to commit murder.

Now, how could all of this happen? Besides the money scapegoat and the alleged abuse, did the two brothers just lust after blood, the blood of their parents no less? Their desire for expensive items and to open up restaurants (Lyle) and receive professional sports lessons (Erik) seemed to be a bit much for the scales of justice to tip into their favor.

Money will be the machine but it is up to the operator to control it. The Menendez brothers disobeyed the laws of the books as well as the laws of money. They substituted their virtues for using money to not selfishly maintain it but maniacally spend it without regard. The deaths of their parents meant a flashy sports car and expensive timepiece and other accoutrements.

Ayn Rand said that money, “Will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” These two didn’t even have their own money. They burned through Mommy’s and Daddy's cash, Murdered Mommy’s and Daddy’s cash. Blood covered the money. For months, the two brothers went on sprees. No more killing, just spending became their lifestyles.

With both of their parents dead from rounds issued from their firearms, they took on the personas of parricidal crazies who couldn’t distinguish reality from truth.

Their life sentences without possibility for parole served them right. They had committed one of the most heinous crimes in all of human record.

A literal snatched wig came into the court proceedings. The mother, Kitty, had pulled off Lyle’s hairpiece, shocking Erik into compliance with his older brother.

The irrationalism inherent in this crime is apparent in both of the brothers. Had they thought in their heads, nevermind prison sentences, but just the sheer fact that they knew what they were doing was evil, would they have gone through with it? They sensed via ideation. There existed no thoughts in their heads, only ideas. These destructive ideas led them to the grisly murders. Also, the self-destruction of their souls followed.

By breaking that law in their minds, they actually did the misdeeds. They had envisioned eliminating the people who gave them life. This ideation was ugly and disastrous. Of course, the murders of the parents were horrific but the ideation proved to be much worse. To even consider actually killing your parents is not a legal infraction. But the very idea of carrying out the act is malevolent.

Both of the brothers had no way of escaping their fate because of “privilege.” Both of them felt the gavel come down on their lives. They couldn’t do anything but accept the fact that they had breached morality in an irredeemable way.