U.S. Senate Candidate Admits Sacrificing Goat

Augustus Sol Invictus wants Florida’s vote for Marco Rubio’s up-for-grabs U.S. Senate seat, but first he’ll have to conquer a few obstacles that stand in his way.

While beating a wide field of traditional Democrat and Republic candidates as a member of the Libertarian Party could be hard enough, it’s a story from Invictus’ past that some voters will find hard to swallow.

It seems the 32-year-old lawyer from Orlando went on a vision quest of sorts a few years back, walking from his home to the Mojave Desert, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Once there, he fasted for a week and prayed, often thinking he might not live. Once safely back home, he performed a pagan ritual of thanks by sacrificing a goat and drinking its blood, the paper reported.

“I sacrificed an animal to the god of the wilderness ... Yes, I drank the goat’s blood,” Invictus was quoted by the Sentinel as saying.

That admission is just one of the many reasons why former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate and former Florida party head Adrian Wyllie of Palm Harbor has launched a campaign against him.

Wyllie contends Invictus wants to start a second American civil war, has described himself as an American Fascist and now uses a logo for this campaign that’s almost identical to the one used by World-War II era Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

“He has displayed swastikas in his published campaign materials,” Wyllie wrote on Facebook to explain his resignation. “He has expressed support for a eugenics program, which would sterilize, euthanize or forcibly abort ‘the weakest, the least intelligent, and the most diseased.’”

Wyllie captured 3.8 percent of the vote for governor during his 2014 bid.

A motion to expel Invictus from the Libertarian Party of Florida failed Sunday night by a 5 to 7 vote.

“I applaud those give party leaders who took a stand against this fascist infiltrator bend on civil war,” Wyllie wrote in announcing the outcome of the vote.

The party, however, did vote in favor of issuing a press release condemning some of Invictus’ statements, Wyllie noted. That release had not been issued as of Monday afternoon.

For his part, Invictus lists such campaign focal points as getting government to give up on the war on drugs, embracing a “policy of non-intervention without becoming isolationist” and state-level control over issues such as abortion, among others.

According to the Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, Invictus filed for the senate seat in May. If he qualifies, he faces a number of candidates in the November 2016 election. He is the only Libertarian to have filed.

As for his stand on religion, Invictus’ website has this to say:

“Augustus Invictus believes in the veneration of nature, the return of virtue, the sanctity of the feminine… and that a candidate’s actions should speak louder than whether they pray to a God or a Goddess.”

To learn more about Invictus’ campaign, visit his website.

Screenshot from an Invictus’ campaign YouTube video