Lake Worth Beach City Limits: The Florida Libertarians are losing it

Saturday, October 3, 2015

The Florida Libertarians are losing it

Of course, the little City of Lake Worth also has their own collection of looney Libertarians. They're usually characterized by their zeal and zest for freedom of speech; except free speech for people they disagree with—then it's OK to do anything you can to shut them up. Now we find the Libertarian leadership in Florida is becoming completely unhinged.

Here is an article from Politico Florida titled, "Libertarian Party drama: Goat sacrifice, eugenics and a chair’s resignation"; here is an excerpt:

Adrian Wyllie, chairman of Florida’s Libertarian Party [emphasis added], resigned his post Thursday to protest the party’s U.S. Senate candidate, accusing the rival of supporting eugenics and for being expelled from a cult group for “sadistically dismembering a goat in a ritualistic sacrifice.”
The Senate candidate, who goes by the adopted name Augustus Sol Invictus, counter-accused Wyllie of spreading “half-truths and lies” for political gain.
The dispute between the two has brewed for months, but finally came to a head after Wyllie was unable to persuade the Libertarian Party of Florida’s executive committee to publicly disavow Invictus, an adopted name that means something like “Invincible Sun Emperor.”
“I’m not making this up. It’s crazy, I know,” Wyllie, a Palm Harbor businessman who ran for governor in 2014 and received 3.8 percent of the vote, told POLITICO after announcing his resignation and levelling his accusations against Invictus in a Facebook post. “I resigned to draw attention to this, as a protest. I did this as a pre-emptive strike. I don’t want anyone to think this guy represents Libertarians. He doesn’t. Under the law, we can’t keep him from the ballot.”