http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-samurai-sword-son-mother,0,490069.story

You naive athiests are probably going to say, 'See what the bible does to you'.

Well, wrong again. This guy was obviously dabbling with the Masons. Many in Hollywierd join in order to further their careers. Remember the Kung Fu guy story?

The voices in his head? There is technology that can do that. His friendly Masonic 'brothers' probably decided to play a little game with him. Either that or he picked up a demon in one of their ceremonies.

Jesus loves me this I know,

I use a sword to tell you so,

Cutting down upon my mom,

Making sure my work is done!

Yes Jesus loves me!

Yes Jesus loves me!

Yes Jesus loves me!

And my sword will tell you so!



I am the Holy Avenger! The end is nigh! Repent all you sinners!

Well, it was certainly involved. You can't deny that.

I wouldn't personally blame it on the specific religion, although he does seem to be convinced that there was demon in his mother that needed to be slain, and the Bible does support the idea of demons possessing people.

Can't help but wonder if he would have been lead to believe such a thing if it wasn't so highly accepted by society.

I mean, a person can hardly believe in Jesus without believing in demons too. Jesus was said to have cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene alone. Although I would certainly hope those are just metaphors and not taken to be literal demons.

Of course it doesn't make any sense to kill a person to cast a demon out of them.

I imagine this guy is either extremely mentally ill, or was on some highly hallucinogenic drug at the time.

Or may be there truly are demons, and he was himself possessed by a demon at the time. Maybe instead of evaluating him psychologically they should just call in a Christian exorcist from the Church of Christ. Cast the demon out of him. Proclaim him to be spiritually purified. And send him back onto the set of Ugly Betty as a born again Magdalene.

Whatever works.

Come on Andy. It's not funny. At least two people lost their lives. Michael's mother is dead, and Michael himself has basically lost his life as well. Whether he's mentally ill, or did it on drugs, or is possessed by a demon himself it doesn't really matter. He's still in bad shape and will have to live with the fact that he killed his own mother.

It's pretty sad. And lots of other people had to have been horribly affected by this too.

how many people have to die in the name of a loving god? Your right, it's not funny, it is just plain stupid...Atheists being naive? there's that pot - kettle thing again...

Surely there's something more to it than just plain stupidity. Either mental illness or drugs.

In fact, if it's due to just plain stupidity wouldn't that kind of stupidity be considered so severe that it would qualify as mental illness?

How stupid does a person need to be before they are proclaimed to be mentally ill?

In fact, does it even make any sense for a God who supposedly judges people based on their choices to even allow mental illness to even occur within his creation? The very existence of mental illness would violate the principle that people are making sane choices on their own.

I mean, surely if their choices are "insane", then how can they be considered to have made a 'choice'?

Even human courts don't not consider someone to be 'guilty' of committing a crime if they weren't able to make a 'sane' decision at the time.

So the very fact that mental illness occurs in the world suggests that this creation was not designed for the purpose of judging people. So any religions based on a judging God have no merit.

as hard as i try, i can't anything that makes any sense about any religion...

as hard as i try, i can't think of anything that makes any sense about a universe popping into existence from nothing,...

But I agree with your conclusion too.

Nothing makes any sense.

So pick your senselessness and enjoy it whilst it lasts.

Two boys commit suicide and the parents blame Judas Priest.

A boy commits suicide his mother blames Ozzy Ozbourne.

Both musicians got blamed for their music MAKING them commit suicide.

Now how many times have people gone insane and killed people for Allah, God, Jehova, Satan, strange voices, dead relatives, spirits, and demons?

The sad thing is that people will find ANY justification to validate violent acts.It takes more than religion to make someone want to do themselves. Islam preys on people stricken with poverty and plays on their anger and fears and desires.

The media does the same thing. Remember the news anchor who did himself on TV with a gun?

How about the nut who parked on the 105 405 interchange, set fire to his truck and himself and his dog, and wound up french kissing a 12 gauge double barrel on TV? I actually saw that happen on TV as it happened. I even called what he was going to do before he did it!

Now sad, I agree.

But I see a dark humor in this that for as smart as people think we are some humans are like any other animal. Some rise above the others, others sink below the rest.

Mankind wants to think it is so superior yet here is the inferiority of man right before us. There is no way to truly understand the fallacious logic people use sometimes to kill others in cold blood. I have met rally maladjusted people before and I strongly feel there are times putting them down is doing everyone a favor but OH that is so not PC! So how humane is keeping an insane person in a cage for life?

Like a gun it is so easy to blame religion!

I cannot count the number of friends I seen become religious THANKS to drug abuse!

No, religion only hides something far more insidious behind the scenes.

Well said!

And I liked your version of that song! As funny as when my brother does "Jesus loves the little children" with a leer and wink. LMAO!

As a mason I can honestly tell you, there is nothing in our Fraternity that allows us to kill our mothers. Actually murder is strictly forbidden. So don't blame us. We don't even discuss religion at our meetings, it's against our bi-laws and is written out on our petitions.


If someone is yelling "sinner" and "repent" that implies the work of the church, not some men's club.

wait this is all wrong it's suppose to be angels or satan telling him to do this,but a demon is cool too that'll work

thats just really sad. I feel bad for the mother and her family.

What about this guy that did it?

Gotta feel bad for him too. After all, what was in it for him? Unless his mother had a lot of money or insurance and the whole thing is a cover-up for intentional pre-meditated murder with a plan to inherit a bundle. But I seriously doubt that. It would be a really bad plan for sure.

But short of that, this guy has got to have some serious mental problems himself.

That's the problem with these kinds of things. First off, if there is any truth to and genuine Devil or Satan who makes people do things, then there would also need to be truth in the idea that demons can indeed possess people. Then we're back to square one! Maybe the guy really was tying to kill a demon.

See how this religious stuff ends up getting circular?

I mean if there truly is an evil Satan who makes people do things, then the idea that demons possess people must also be taken as a genuine idea. So where does that leave things? Maybe this guy is a hero who killed a demon who had taken over his mother's body?

I mean, if you believe in Jesus you necessarily need to believe in demons possessing people, right?

So religion is truly weird.

Atheists have it so easy. They can just chalk it up to a malfunctioning brain. A poorly programmed biological computer. That's all it amounts to from an atheistic point of view. Bad software.

even if there was a demon possessing his mother, can someone kill it with a sword?...i think not, so killing his mother was in vain... unless he wasn't trying to kill a demon, but save his mother. either way, it is a major fail. Even the religious people have to see it that he was insane, and not any type of hero.

Depends on which religious people you ask. Not all religious people are sane.

We could probably spend several months debating the freemasons which is deeply rooted in all sorts of strange rituals including drinking blood from a human skull.


This man was obviously totally insane.I know people are going to blame Christianity as always.But of course there will be no justification for what he did no matter what you read in the Old and New testaments.Even when Jesus was being arrested Peter drew his sword and sliced off one of the priests ears and Jesus told him to put his sword away and healed the priest ear back to normal.

This story is just one of thousands over the years around the world where people religious or Atheist heard voices in their heads telling them to kill.You will find most murders did hear voices in their head telling them to kill shortly before the murder.Religious or not mental illness is always the prime suspect.

Actually a pretty good argument.
Yes, aren't we all just a little mentally ill. But that is the whole point. We all need help. God isn't so much about judging us as he is helping us. Following sin (drug abuse, illicit sex, ect) usually leads to more mental illness. Following God's laws leads to peace of mind.

I agree, this guy probably was just ill. But anytime the Masons are involved, you never know. What if he'd gone to a 'real' church instead? Same result? I don't think so.

If a creator truly wanted to help us, why not just create a creation where these things aren't implicitly designed into it in the first place?



Which laws? From which religion or spiritual philosophy?

Personally I think the 12 laws of Karma are pretty good.



A "real church"?

That's an interesting concept. No matter what church you find, you can always find another one that will denounce the one you found and claim that it's better.

Also, if you believe in the Bible and you go into a "church" that is build if hewn stone and has steps leading up to the altar be leery of this false temple, for in the doctrine that sit upon the podium you'll find these words from God:

"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon."

So if you see steps leading up to the altar run like hell, it must be a house of Satan.

Looks like a lot of my 'hunches' have proven correct:
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Michael Brea: ‘I didn’t kill her. I killed the demon inside her’
By Vigilant | November 29th, 2010 | Category: Latest News | 125 comments

Matthew Lysiak
NY Daily News

Michael Brea says he killed his mom Yannick Brea with a sword after she asked him to pour water from a pot in which she was cooking chickens in.
Michael Brea says he killed his mom Yannick Brea with a sword after she asked him to pour water from a pot in which she was cooking chickens in.

An unhinged actor Thursday calmly described hacking his beloved mother to death with a sword because he believed a demon had taken hold of her soul.

“I didn’t kill her. I killed the demon inside her,” Michael Brea said in a chilling hourlong interview with the Daily News in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital.

When told his mother, Yannick Brea, 55, had died in the grisly assault early Tuesday, Michael was unrepentant.

“So be it. It was the work of God,” he said.

Speaking with white-hot intensity and unflinching confidence, Brea described a shadowy descent into a world filled with Masonic symbolism and black magic beginning late Sunday when he snapped awake.

“I was sleeping in my bedroom. God came above my bed and reached his arm to me,” said Brea, wearing a light-blue prison jumpsuit and slippers. He told his tale while sitting unhandcuffed on a blue chair behind a wood table.

“I said, ‘God, is my time on earth over?’ I heard a voice say, ‘Yes Michael, today is your last day.’ I asked if I could say goodbye to my family.”

The 31-year-old Brea said he told no one about the dream, but the following afternoon, he said he received another sign while at the Prince Hall Masonic Temple in Harlem, which he’d joined a week earlier.

There, he said, a man approached and tried to put a curse on him.

“[He] kept trying to put something in my hand but wouldn’t show it to me. I kept opening my hand. It was a Freemason pin. I wouldn’t touch it,” Brea said.

Felt like Neo from ‘The Matrix‘

He began feeling ill and left, and while riding the train back to Brooklyn, he said, strangers began speaking to him about his mother.

“I felt like Neo from ‘The Matrix.’ I began hearing voices and feeling powerful,” Brea said. “They were asking about the difference between mom and mother. It was a sign.”

When he returned to the family’s Prospect Heights apartment, the bit-part actor who once appeared on “Ugly Betty,” hugged his mother, a God-fearing Haitian immigrant with whom relatives say he had long been very close.

“I knew I would never see my mother again,” he said. “I gave her lots of love.”

He went to his room and lit candles, placed a dagger and a 3-foot ceremonial Freemason sword by his side.

Investigators said he had stolen the sword from the Masonic lodge, but Brea insisted his father had given it to him when he was a child.

“It’s a powerful sword,” he said.

Brea also arranged three saint cards around him – including one of Saint Jude holding a sword.

His mother then knocked on the door and asked him to go to the kitchen and pour water from a pot in which she was cooking three chickens.

“I looked at these chickens lying dead in the pot and a voice told me it was a sacrifice. It was black magic,” he said.

Brea left the chickens alone and went back to his room. When his mother asked why he did not do what she had asked, he said she spoke with a different voice.

“She had the voice of the demon. I opened the door with the dagger at my side and the sword,” he said.

“I asked, ‘Do you believe in God?’ She said, ‘No, Michael no,’ and began screaming. I began slashing her like this,” he said, bringing his right hand down in a violent hacking motion.

Sickening trail of blood

Brea chased his mother from room-to-room, repeatedly swinging the sword, leaving a sickening trail of blood in his wake.

“I didn’t want to kill her right away. I wanted to give her time to get right with God,” he said.

By this point police had arrived outside the apartment, but Brea said he had no doubt he would be able to finish the job.

“I was slashing my mom and I heard the police knocking on the door yelling, ‘Michael, open up, Michael, open up,’ but I knew they wouldn’t open the door and stop me because the spirits were protecting me,” he said.

“I just kept cutting her. No one could stop me. I was doing the work of God,” he said.

“I’m named after a saint myself – Saint Michael. He was protecting the house from the police. They weren’t allowed to enter the apartment.”

Neighbors complained that the officers who initially responded failed to do enough to get inside and stop the sword-wielding maniac before his mother died.

Police officials said the officers handled the situation properly and were waiting for better equipped and trained Emergency Service Unit cops to arrive.

When they finally broke the door down, cops found a trail of bloody footprints and handprints on the walls and floors, and Yannick Brea crumpled on her knees in the bathroom.

Her son stood amid the carnage with the sword in one hand and a Masonic Bible in the other.

“I heard voices telling me how powerful I was, saying ‘Oh he’s good,’” Brea said.

While recounting the gruesome murder, Brea showed no remorse, and his eyes stayed locked on a reporter.

His intensity only broke for a moment when he said he was thirsty and his mouth was dry. Guards gave him a wet towelette to dab at his lips.

Brea said he is convinced he did the right thing.

“Grand Architect of the Universe means God,” he said, referring to an expression neighbors said he shouted as he was being removed from the bloody scene. “I was praising God. To you it might sound silly, but in my culture demons are very real.”