Did what now?
Meet the Libertarian Party of Florida's candidate for U.S. Senate,
because Florida.
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. [...]
"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."
Mr. Sol Invictus, and yes he did legally change his name to that, was chosen by the Libertarian Party not because his strong record on ritual animal sacrifice but, presumably, because of his very loud opinions on possibly mounting an armed revolution against the American government. You know: Libertarianism.
"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."
He also has renounced his U.S. citizenship, which would seem to pose certain problems for his U.S. Senate candidacy, but no matter. Thank you, Libertarian Party of Florida. No reason—just, thank you.