"Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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So we have Moses, bringing "his people" from Egypt to Mt. Sinai where Jehova gives him the ten commandments...

And one of them is simply "you shall not murder", but... but... what did god do with all the plagues he sent down on Egypt, particularly the one with all the firstborns, if not murdering?

What sort of moral authority does such a being have to tell his "children" not to murder when that's exactly what he did a couple of pages back?!

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The Command is you shall not Murder.

The difference between killing and murder?

Authorization. If God authorizes the taking of human life it is not a murder, because He holds the right to all life in His hands.

That's an interesting view.  The Bible says that God has evil angels to do his dirty work.  So when people go on killing sprees why do they get arrested and executed for murder when it's plainly clear that they were just doing what God had authorized them to do?  Therefore no one should ever be busted for killing people because God authorized them to do it and therefore it's all good.  After all, they never would have done such acts if God hadn't told them to do them.