Augustus Invictus is a Libertarian Party senate candidate in Florida and perhaps one of the most notorious figures within the party ranks. He received national press attention last year when he admitted to drinking goat’s blood to the Associated Press and again in March when he was denied entry into Canada for a speaking engagement. In response to him running for U.S Senate under the Libertarian Party banner, Libertarian Party of Florida chairman Adrian Wyllie resigned and wrote a Facebook post accusing Invictus of being a fascist.
The Libertarian Republic interviewed Invictus on accusations of being a Neo-Nazi, last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, and his controversial position on eugenics.
TLR: What is your response to the recent Brussels attacks, Donald Trump’s proposal to torture terror suspects, and Ted Cruz’s proposal to patrol Muslim neighborhoods?
Invictus: I am unfamiliar with those statements from Trump and Cruz. I don’t agree with torturing Muslims in America, I will say that. I also don’t think it’s necessary to patrol Muslim neighborhoods. I think there is a huge difference between what is going on in Europe and what is going on in America.
TLR: With ISIS taking responsibility for the Brussels attacks, what do you think the U.S. response should be?
Invictus: I think the first and foremost thing we have to do is restrict immigration. I understand the whole libertarian platform, the official position being that we should have few immigration restrictions, but this is a national security concern and it is a legitimate one. So screening immigrants for connections with ISIS or for actual refugee status, I think that is a legitimate thing to do and that’s probably the first and foremost thing we should as far as foreign policy is concerned.
As far as military action, I honestly don’t think ISIS is a big enough of a military threat to justify going in there doing exactly what we did in the Iraq War.
TLR: People accuse you of being a Neo-Nazi and a white supremacist. Why is that?
Invictus: The charge was that I’m a white supremacist, which I think was easily defeated when people found out and started saying for me that I have Hispanic children. My family is Hispanic. I’ve never seen a Neo-Nazi who had a Hispanic family. That one went away really quickly. But Wyllie said I was trying to recruit Neo-Nazis into the Libertarian Party to take it over.
TLR: What is your position on eugenics?
Invictus: It goes back to a paper I wrote in law school. I have renounced that paper several times in public. My position is that it is correct, legally speaking, and that eugenics programs are constitutional, and if you don’t like that you should amend the Constitution or not pass eugenics laws. The fact is that they are legal.
The public policy aspect is the part that I have renounced, saying that we have a duty to implement these programs. That’s the part I have changed my position on. And it’s not that I don’t believe that the strongest and smartest should breed and the weakest and stupidest should not; my position has changed because I have moved from the theoretical and the philosophical into the practical everyday aspects of law and politics.
So that is the crux in my change of position. I still think it’s legal and if you don’t like it, change the Constitution, change the law, but as a public policy aspect. I don’t promote eugenics. I’ve said this a hundred times. It’s kind of disingenuous that people keep coming after me for that one.
TLR: How will you help change the direction of or end the war on drugs?
Invictus: I would be looking to end it. As for my personal vendetta, I want to destroy the DEA and put them out of work like they did to me and my friends when we worked at the pharmacy. But as far as the war on drugs is concerned, ending the Drug Enforcement Agency and repealing the Controlled Substances Act are just two of the steps. The real problem is that the pharmaceutical companies control our legislature. The pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists just spend disgusting amounts of money pushing this legislation through. I think one of the huge steps in fighting the war on drugs is to fight the influence the pharmaceutical companies have on Congress.
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