Possible Florida Libertarian US Senate candidates Roger Stone, Augustus Invictus respond to critics

Via IPR comments on a prior post, possible Florida Libertarian US Senate candidate Roger Stone has addressed some of the criticisms levelled against him in IPR comments:

Jed Ziggler May 30, 2015 at 10:32 pm

I tweeted a link to this story on my personal Twitter. Stone replied:

“@JedZiggler some real assholes in the comments #haters #jerk-0ffs”

Among the comments on that post at IPR, former LPNY chair Mark Axinn wrote

In 2010, LPNY ran Warren Redlich for Governor. Warren got over 48,300 votes, just 1700 shy of 50,000 required for automatic ballot status for four years which would have saved us approx. $80,000 in petitioning costs in 2012 and 2014, as well as permitted us to run dozens (hundreds?) of local candidates in many municipal races.

At the same time that LPNY ran Warren Redlich for Governor, Roger Stone ran Kristin Davis on a new line created for that one race called the Anti-Prohibition Party. Davis got approximately 20,000 votes (she came in seventh place out of seven candidates). Obviously if at least 1/10th of the people who voted for Davis had voted for Redlich instead, we would have made the 50,000 vote threshold for automatic ballot status for the last four years.

After the 2010 election, Stone boasted on his blog that LPNY failed in its quest for ballot-status.

IPR owner Warren Redlich wrote:

My lawsuit against Stone is still pending. I was up in NYC earlier this month for a brief court appearance. Things move slow and I don’t expect anything to happen for months. Obviously I oppose Stone for any office.

My gut hunch is this is just an effort to get his name in the papers to help promote his books (which do seem to be selling well). It’s a strategy his buddy Trump has used in presidential races. If I’m correct he will withdraw from consideration after he’s gotten some media attention due to other commitments (his books) and he’ll say diplomatic things about whoever the LPF’s leading candidate is.

He just played this game in 2013 for Governor: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/roger-stone-why-i-wont-run-for-florida-governor/2123241

But as always the LP is filled with the suckers born every minute that Stone excels at appealing to.

BTW Karl Dickey, who wrote the Examiner article, is pretty well respected within the LPF and he says Stone is likely to get the nod. Dickey knows exactly who Stone is. I told him in no uncertain terms and broke off all relations with Dickey and the LPF after they embraced Stone in 2012.

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For those not in the loop on the LPNY experience with Stone, here’s a couple links:

1. Stone e-mails with me (and others) about his plan to use the LP to help the GOP candidate

http://wredlich.com/ny/2010/04/carl-paladino-and-roger-stone/

“Stone: 4/20, 11:21 pm: You make me question your ability to read. My first missive with you contained two cold stone facts that you took as threats. … I am highly confident Carl would see the wisdom in an alliance with you. … Beating Andrew Cuomo requires a multi-candidate race . A rock-rib Republican on the libertarian line is not good for Paladino. … Where you are wrong is in saying Carl will drop in May. You dont know Carl. He isnt a quiter. He will win the GOP primary over Lazio. The guy has giant balls and will not be stopped despite his current problems. He gets better as a candidate every day. Carl Paladino can win in my opinion. The stars have to line up. But they will.”

2. Stone’s involvement in the two campaigns (Paladino and Davis):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/nyregion/12stone.html?_r=0
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/09/carl_paladino_t_1.php

3. The Stone/Paladino defamatory attack against me:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/false-defamatory-lit-distributed-libertarian-warren-redlich-blog-entry-1.1681607

Meanwhile, news of another candidate for the LPF US Senate nomination, Augustus Invictus, has met with some strong criticism in IPR comments among other places. Unlike Stone, Invictus has formally declared his candidacy for the nomination.

As William Saturn reports:

Image of Invictus from his LinkedIn profile

Augustus Sol Invictus is an Orlando-area attorney who graduated from DePaul College of Law. Recently, he declared his candidacy for the Libertarian Party’s 2016 U.S. Senate nomination in Florida. Discussion about his candidacy on IPR has centered on his past remarks in favor of eugenics and an April 2013 letter he wrote to fellow DePaul graduates in which he renounced his U.S. citizenship, his law degree, law firm, and claimed he would go into hiding in the Florida wilderness to prepare for civil war. This letter, which he entitled “Departure Memo” is republished below as it was at Above the Law on April 22, 2013. The Saturnalian does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in this commentary.

AUGUSTUS SOL INVICTUS — DEPARTURE MEMO

To the Grey World of Man:

They say that only failures become revolutionaries; that those who perpetrate violence in the name of a great cause only do so because they have failed at everything else in life. In other words, they only become revolutionaries because they have achieved nothing of value in the “real” world.

Witness ye the glory of my life at 29 years of age: I have four children, each of whom should be the envy of every parent in the world; I have attained a Baccalaureate Degree in Philosophy with honors; I have attained a Doctorate in Law, cum laude; I have acquired licenses in the profession of law in the States of New York, Illinois, and Florida; I am scheduled to acquire two more such licenses in North Carolina & Massachusetts; I am Editor-in-Chief of a poetry journal; I run an independent publishing company; I have opened my own law office in downtown Orlando; I am an MBA candidate; and I have accomplished a few other things that will remain off the record for now.

I am of genius intellect & cultured, well-educated & creative, well-mannered & refined. I am God’s gift to humankind where the English language is concerned, and I also happen to have a basic knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian. I am musical & artistic; I am athletic & possessed of militant self-discipline; and I am many other things. I have a Cadillac & a poodle, multiple computers & a personal library; I live in an apartment downtown, right across the street from the courthouse; I have been to Paris & Vancouver, to Cairo & Dubrovnik, to Mexico City & Siracusa. I dress better than all of you, pronounce my words perfectly, and have a winning, professional handshake. I am everything you ever wanted to be.

I challenge any of you, then, to accuse me of being a failure in this artificial civilization of yours. For it is beyond dispute that I have played your petty game, and I have won.

But your game no longer holds any interest for me. Your architecture is vapid & worthless, as is your decadent culture, the mindless drivel you call music, the filth you call democracy. You waste your lives watching pure excrement on television, shopping at the strip malls, planning your vacations to resorts & theme parks. The Internet, with its infinitude of information, is used for reading celebrity gossip & watching sitcoms. You have begun to reduce argument to memes & human communication to trite sound bites. Life has become trivial – and if you cannot feel the human spirit decaying, you are already dead.

As for those in the profession of law: The vast majority of you are nothing more than parasites. The only reason you eat, the only reason you can afford to have roofs over your heads, is that the lives of others have been ruined by the very laws & social order you claim to be legitimate. You feed off others like worms, and were this world & their lives just & in order, you would be out of work. Look upon your lives, and repent.

This modern civilization of which you are all so fond deserves naught from me but the violence of my contempt; and if you were strong enough, you would hold the same contempt & turn your torches upon the world as I shall.

WITNESS YE MY RENUNCIATION:

I hereby renounce my licenses to practice law, my diplomas, my affiliation with Rollins, DePaul, and the University of South Florida, my United States citizenship, my membership in the Roman Catholic Church, my law firm, my publishing company & poetry journal, and all of my material possessions.

To those who believe that this great renunciation is evidence of mental illness rather than the initiation of a spiritual journey: If my example stirs nothing in you, if you can see no further than the confines of what your secular humanism & its hallowed psychiatry allow, then there is nothing I can say to you that would wake you from your slumber. You are less than the beast in man. You are fungi. Would to God that you pass quickly from this Earth.

HEAR YE MY FINAL WORDS IN PEACETIME:

I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War I would begin it myself. Mark well: That day is fast coming upon you. On the New Moon of May, I shall disappear into the Wilderness. I will return bearing Revolution, or I will not return at all.

War Be unto the Ends of the Earth,

Augustus Sol Invictus
Orlando, Florida, USA
XX Aprilis MMXIII Satvrnvs

Today, Invictus posted a “Fireside Chat” on his U.S. Senate Campaign Facebook page in which he explains (in an English accent) some of his earlier statements.