Florida Senate Candidate Admits to Sacrificing Goat, Drinking Blood in Pagan Ritual

[journey]

This guy should win a trip to the funny farm. He has no business in public office.

 

[Granite]

Or he's just having a laugh. Or he's just...Florida.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Why is it considered a "pagan" ritual?

pa·gan
ˈpāɡən/
noun
noun: pagan; plural noun: pagans

1.
a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.

If you don't like the title of the article, complain to the writer of it. When i post a news article, i always use the title they gave it.

I would have said satanist

 

[Angel4Truth]

Or he's just having a laugh. Or he's just...Florida.

Yes, This Libertarian Senate Candidate Really Did Sacrifice a Goat and Drink Its Blood - GQ magazine

I know it's crazy. Here is an explanation:
Wait, what happened?

For those who don't know, Florida Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus (the only member of the Libertarian Party running to fill the seat vacated by presidential hopeful Marco Rubio) is accused of ritualistically sacrificing a goat in a pagan ceremony. The allegations came to light when Adrian Wyllie, the chairman of the Florida Libertarian Party, resigned on Thursday in protest, in part because of Invictus' claims he is destined to lead a second civil war and is pretty popular amongst white supremacists. But also because of this whole goat thing.

In a Facebook post, he wrote:

"Mr. Invictus practices Thelema, an occult pagan religion based on the teachings of Aleister Crowley. Mr. Invictus was ejected from Ordo Templi Orientis for brutally and sadistically dismembering a goat in a ritualistic sacrifice."

There is no way this can be true. This has to be slander, right? Right!?

Nope. Invictus has given an interview to the Orlando Sentinel where he readily admits killing a goat and drinking his blood. The only part of it he refutes is suggestion it was "sadistic." Because, apparently, there is a non-sadistic way to sacrifice a goat and drink its warm blood.

"I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans. I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness ... Yes, I drank the goat's blood."

I'll just give you a moment to absorb the use of the word "quibble" here.

What on earth possessed him to do such a thing?

According to the Sentinel, it was part of a journey of religious self discovery Invictus went on when he walked from Florida to the Mojave Desert two years ago. Speaking to POLITICO last week, he said it was only tangentially related to his expulsion from Ordo Templi Orientis.

"I was expelled from the order for political reasons," he said. "Animal sacrifice was part of it. But that is a deliberate misrepresentation by Wyllie."

Who is "Augustus Sol Invictus"?

That is a good question. Here's what we know: he's a 32-year-old lawyer based out of Orlando, Florida. According to the bio on his website, he was raised by a "criminal defense attorney" but only decided to become an attorney himself "when he and his family became the collateral damage of DEA aggression." It's all very cryptic, has more than a few hints of paranoia, and speaks to a general sense of Invictus not being in the slightest bit chill.

This is probably obvious, but August Sol Invictus isn't his real name. It means "majestic unconquered sun" in Latin, but he refuses to reveal what he changed it from.

What about the other charges? Is he a white supremacist hellbent on starting a second civil war?

Like his expulsion from Ordo Templi Orientis only being tangentially related to goat sacrifices, they're not completely unfounded. He denies being a white supremacist himself—his four children are Hispanic—but he acknowledges that many white supremacists support his campaign. As for the civil war, no, he doesn't want to start one. But only because the American government is already at war with the American people.

"If the government is waging war on citizens, we as citizens have the right to self-defense on government," he told the Sentinel.

In fact, back in 2013 he wrote a paper where he said he would disappear into the wilderness and return "bearing Revolution" or not at all. .. more at link above.

 

[Angel4Truth]

And another from the AP:

Goat sacrifice, talk of civil war upset Florida Libertarians

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn't survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood.

Now that he's a candidate for U.S. Senate, the story is coming back to bite him.

The chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida has resigned to call attention to Invictus' candidacy in hopes that other party leaders will denounce him. Adrian Wyllie, who was the Libertarian candidate for governor last year, says Invictus wants to lead a civil war, is trying to recruit neo-Nazis to the party and brutally and sadistically dismembered a goat.

It's an awkward situation for the small party that's trying to gain clout.

"He is the absolute exact opposite of a Libertarian. He's a self-proclaimed fascist. He's promoting a second civil war," Wyllie said. "It's absolute insanity. We must explain to people this is the opposite of Libertarians. This guy has no place in the Libertarian Party."

nvictus, a 32-year-old lawyer who changed his given name — which he declines to reveal — to a Latin phrase that means "majestic unconquered sun," says Wyllie is just running a smear campaign and is twisting his words into lies. No, he says, he's not a white supremacist, pointing out his four children are Hispanic — though he acknowledges that some white supremacists support his campaign. No, he says he isn't trying to start a civil war, but he says the government already is at war with its citizens and that it's certain to escalate.

"The only question is when are the citizens going to start fighting back?" he said in a phone interview Friday. "I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people."

Sacrifice? Yes. Brutal and sadistic? Not according to Invictus.

"I did sacrifice a goat. I know that's probably a quibble in the mind of most Americans," he said. "I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness ... Yes, I drank the goat's blood."

He admits he's been investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement. He is confident they're still watching him, in part for a series of YouTube videos and other writings in which he discusses government. He renounced his citizenship in one paper, and in another he prophesied a great war, saying he would wander into the wilderness and return bearing revolution.

"I guess it makes me feel flattered that they think I am a threat to the stability of the system. It makes me think one man can make a difference," Invictus said.

He insists, though, that he doesn't advocate violence.

"You do not initiate force," he said. "If the government is waging war on citizens, we as citizens have the right to self-defense on government."

Invictus knows running as a Libertarian is a longshot — Wyllie was easily Florida's most well-received Libertarian candidate and he only received 3.8 percent of the vote — and he acknowledges that being a pagan will hurt him with an electorate that tends to support Christians. But he said he is running with the hope of speaking on the Senate floor.

"If not elected, I still think there is a purpose for all of this and that is to get a message out there, waking them up," he said. "They are the ones that control the government and not the other way around."