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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLibertarian Party drama: Goat sacrifice, eugenics and a chair’s resignation
Adrian Wyllie, chairman of Floridas Libertarian Party, resigned his post Thursday to protest the partys U.S. Senate candidate, accusing the rival of supporting eugenics and for being expelled from a cult group for sadistically dismembering a goat in a ritualistic sacrifice.
The Senate candidate, who goes by the adopted name Augustus Sol Invictus, counter-accused Wyllie of spreading half-truths and lies for political gain.
The dispute between the two has brewed for months, but finally came to a head after Wyllie was unable to persuade the Libertarian Party of Floridas executive committee to publicly disavow Invictus, an adopted name that means something like Invincible Sun Emperor.
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I have never dismembered a goat in my life. I have performed animal sacrifices as part of my religion, Invictus said. I was expelled from the order for political reasons. And animal sacrifice was part of it. But that is a deliberate misrepresentation by Wyllie.
Wyllie said he brought up the issue of Invictus religion because the candidate has cited it as justification for supporting potentially violent revolution. Invictus denies that as well.
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The substance of his stump speech is unique in the Senate field. In a black-and-white video of a speech featured on his campaign website, he warns of government overreached and how he has been hunted by the FBI. At one point, he looks in the camera and addresses the law-enforcement authorities he says are watching him. Urging Libertarians to resist using the same tactics as the two major political parties, Invictus also asks his audience to think for themselves.
I want you to take LSD and practice sorcery, he says at one point. Im also Old World Pagan and a white Southerner. So I know what its like to be treated like a wolf in a hen house.
PoliticoFlorida
The Senate candidate, who goes by the adopted name Augustus Sol Invictus, counter-accused Wyllie of spreading half-truths and lies for political gain.
The dispute between the two has brewed for months, but finally came to a head after Wyllie was unable to persuade the Libertarian Party of Floridas executive committee to publicly disavow Invictus, an adopted name that means something like Invincible Sun Emperor.
....
I have never dismembered a goat in my life. I have performed animal sacrifices as part of my religion, Invictus said. I was expelled from the order for political reasons. And animal sacrifice was part of it. But that is a deliberate misrepresentation by Wyllie.
Wyllie said he brought up the issue of Invictus religion because the candidate has cited it as justification for supporting potentially violent revolution. Invictus denies that as well.
....
The substance of his stump speech is unique in the Senate field. In a black-and-white video of a speech featured on his campaign website, he warns of government overreached and how he has been hunted by the FBI. At one point, he looks in the camera and addresses the law-enforcement authorities he says are watching him. Urging Libertarians to resist using the same tactics as the two major political parties, Invictus also asks his audience to think for themselves.
I want you to take LSD and practice sorcery, he says at one point. Im also Old World Pagan and a white Southerner. So I know what its like to be treated like a wolf in a hen house.
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Libertarian Party drama: Goat sacrifice, eugenics and a chair’s resignation (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Oct 2015
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)1. Zeitgeistig Jesus Mythers AND Randroid theistic Satanists? oh my head!
though ironically Milton and the grimoires say Satan's bag is pride rather than greed
so even at his pettiest, lowest, meanest moment, crawling in the dust in order to smash something good and beautiful simply because it's lovely, he's still not a total slave to his infernal "portfolio" like the other Kings of Hell
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)4. You're conflating Pagans and Satanists. That's a common mistake; but the two are world's apart.
That mixup goes right back to the witchhunters of the Middle Ages, and caused the death of a lot of innocent people.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)2. I always imagined Florida Man would be a libertarian.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)3. Hoo, Ha!!!!!! Sounds like the Libertarians have gone almost as bat-shit crazy as the GOP!!!!!