Weltschmerz à GogoJun 12, 2025

That lawsuit that five leading Proud Boys filed against the US Gov last week? The one where they're asking for, I believe, $1 million each for their alleged mistreatment after they participated in Jan. 6?

It turns out they hired domestic abuser, self-declared demi-god, and goat-blood drinker Augustus Sol Invictus as their lawyer.

No, I couldn't believe it either.

But wait! There's more!

The judge in the case has ordered that Mr. Sol Invictus show written proof that he hasn't been suspended from the bar in Florida's Middle District. Apparently that bar has a rule requiring attorneys to report if/when they've been convicted of a felony, which -- I guess I'm going to start calling him "A-Sol" because it kind of sounds like "asshole" -- A-Sol failed to do after he was convicted in January: a court in Virginia found him guilty of using fire as a means of intimidation due to his participation in the Unite the Right tiki-torch march. He was supposed to report it to the bar, but didn't. As a result, he will most likely not be allowed to try this case, the fucking idjit.

To be fair, though, I think he's got a couple of restraining orders against him and various other legal woes of his own. He must've just gotten distracted or something.

So yeah. Law and order. Cool story, bruh.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.442907/gov.uscourts.flmd.442907.9.0.pdf

h/t https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3lrghafjnc42w

#ProudBoys #AugustusSolInvictus #fascism #EnriqueTarrio #JoeBiggs #EthanNordean #RufioPanman

Show threadWeltschmerz à GogoJan 11, 2025

Here's an article with more details on Augustus Invictus' sentencing. Yesterday I left out an important detail from Emily Gorcenski's initial post: most of his five-year sentence is suspended, and he's only slated to spend 9.5 months in jail. He has, of course, already said he'd appeal (in his usual grandstanding style, he's promising to take it to the Supreme Court), but it sounds like he doesn't have much of a case (he's actually a lawyer, but he's also a violent kook, go figure).

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/goats-blood-drinking-florida-man-gets-9-1-2-months-for-role-in-torch-carrying/article_1a26be9e-ceb1-11ef-919b-2fccf28af730.html

#UTR #UniteTheRight #AugustusSolInvictus #NeoNazis #fcknzs #fascism #FuckThatGuy

Goat's blood-drinking Florida man gets 9 1/2 months for role in torch-carrying mob at UVa

Augustus Invictus, a far-right activist and failed U.S. Senate candidate convicted for his role in the 2017 torch-carrying mob at UVa, was sentenced Wednesday.

The Daily Progress
Weltschmerz à GogoJan 9, 2025

Emily Gorcenski, who is way more clued into this than I am, has posted on Bluesky that neo-Nazi and goat's blood-drinker Augustus Sol Invictus has been sentenced to five years for using fire to intimidate during the tiki torch march in Charlottesville on August 11, 2017. However, she also points out that he won't actually go to jail just yet pending appeal. [Edit: Most of his sentence will be suspended, and he's only set to serve 9.5 months at the moment.] Make of it what you will.

#UTR #UniteTheRight #AugustusSolInvictus #NeoNazis #fcknzs #fascism

Show threadWeltschmerz à GogoOct 13, 2024

…aaand Augustus Sol Invictus has, in fact, been defeated: for the first time, a Virginia jury has found someone guilty under that state’s anti-cross-burning law, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

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The goat’s blood-drinking White supremacist and failed Senate candidate who participated in the torch-lit march across University of Virginia Grounds before the infamous Unite the Right rally-turned-riot in 2017 was convicted Friday.

Augustus Sol Invictus was found guilty in Albemarle County court for violating a Virginia law that prohibits the use of fire to racially intimidate. He could face five years behind bars.

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/torch-toting-unite-the-right-participant-convicted/article_b1c7280c-8824-11ef-8d09-8b76156f839f.html

#UniteTheRight #AugustusSolInvictus #UVa #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #fcknzs #racism #antisemitism

Torch-toting Unite the Right participant convicted

It's the first time the law designed to prohibit Ku Klux Klan cross-burnings has secured a verdict in a jury trial.

The Daily Progress
Show threadWeltschmerz à GogoOct 9, 2024

On a related note, Augustus Sol Invictus still exists, and he has taken his "using a burning object to intimidate" charge to trial. His lawyer tried, and failed, to argue that a torch isn't a "burning object" because "all that's being burned is the oil" and oil somehow isn't an object. Go figure.

Anyways, Sol Invictus (who wasn't given that name at birth, but picked it I guess because it's the most absurdly pompous thing he could think of) is a lawyer himself, but his track record isn't so hot. He has also admitted to drinking goat's blood and, while he was found not guilty on some really horrible domestic violence charges, there's really nothing about his personality or other public statements to make me think that he's not exactly the kind of person who would do what he was accused of.

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-greenlights-trial-for-florida-man-who-participated-in-2017-march-at-uva/article_f465d98c-81d1-11ef-baf6-d393667f9456.html

#AugustusSolInvictus #UniteTheRight #UTR #fascism #fcknzs

Judge greenlights trial for Florida man who participated in 2017 march at UVa

Augustus Invictus' defense failed to argue that a lit torch is not a "burning object."

The Daily Progress